I am confused with the logic when a students gets offered courses in a semester. these are the tables i have;
Class
Course
Semester
Now, the current schema is such as Admin selects list of courses which will be offered in Computer Science Degree in a semester say Fall 2014.
Now, a student in 4th Semester shall be offered different courses than students in 3rd semester and so on. at this last point i am confused how to separate courses offered into semesters (1, 2 and so on)
Here is the schema
Class
class_id (int)
class_year (int)
class_semester (int) F.K
class_course (int) F.K
class_status (int) F.K
Semester
sem_id (int)
Sem_name (varchar 100)
course
course_id (int)
course_code(varchar 10)
course_name (varchar 100)
course_credit (int)
Here you need to design and reference or link your tables in such a way as below :
For example :
Class Table - Suppose you have class A and Class B with class_id as column.
Semester Table- Here you will have reference to your class tables class_id
so your semester table goes like Semester_ID / Class_ID /...
Courses Table - Here you will have reference to semester_id like course_id /semester_id /...
This way you can have access or can create courses specific to semester and like wise.
Let me know if you have any doubts.
Regards, Zeeshan.