Student Attendance Checking Program

Functionalities:

1. Checks which students skipped the session

Compares a csv file of participants to the csv file of students in enrolled in the lab section. Students in the lab section that are not listed in the participants did not attend the session.

2. Matches Zoom user names to students' real names

Some students forget to change their zoom name to their full name. This program tries to match ambiguous students to their real names.

Instructions:

1. Download the participants list csv file from zoom (instructions) (see formatting guidelines).

2. Add that csv file to the student_files/participants directory. Ensure that this file is the only file in that directory. Participant files from previous labs can be kept in the student_files/participants/previous directory.

3. Obtain a csv file that lists all the students in the lab section (see formatting guidelines).

4. Put the csv file (see formatting guidelines) of all students in the lab section in the student_files/all_students directory. Ensure that this file is the only file in that directory.

5. Run app.py.

CSV File Formatting Guidelines

Both files

No blank lines unless it's a single blank line at the beginning or end of the file.

Participants file

First line: Name (Original Name),User Email,Total Duration (Minutes),Guest
Next lines: comma-separated values with each comma-separated value corresponding to a column

All students file

Students' full names column: first non digit column, values are in the form "<last_name>,<first_name>" or "<last_name>,<first_name> <middle_name>" TODO