Create a Student Management System Project in Python

Introduction

A Student Management System is a comprehensive software application that facilitates educational institutions in managing their day-to-day operations. It is designed to integrate and automate various administrative tasks of educational institutions, including registration, admissions, attendance tracking, grade management, and examination management.

The Student Management System has become an essential tool for educational institutions of all sizes, from small primary schools to large universities. In this tutorial, we’ll create such a Student Management System Project in Python using Tkinter and MySQL.

It will help to manage the following tasks:

1. Add new data of a student.
2. View the information of an existing student.
3. Update or modify a student’s data.
4. Delete the record of a student.

The Project Details

The graphical interface of this project is managed by the Tkinter library. The PyMySQL package is used here to manage database operations using Python. 

The project folder contains three Python files, main.py, custom.py, and credentials.py. As the name of main.py, it handles all the tasks. custom.py has information about the color and font used by the main program. credentials.py or the final file contains credentials to log in to the MySQL server. Here, users need to enter their own Username and Password for the MySQL server.

As we’ll be interacting with the database, it’s essential to have MySQL Server installed on your system (You can find instructions on how to install MySQL on Windows, Linux, and Mac). If you’ve already completed this step, there’s no need to do it again.

Create a Database and Two Tables

Create a database with this name: “student_management“.

create database student_management;

Create a table “student_register” under the “student_management” database.

create table student_register(
	f_name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
	l_name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
	course VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
	subject VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
	year Int(10) NOT NULL,
	age Int(10) NOT NULL,
	gender char(10) NOT NULL,
	birth DATE NOT NULL,
	contact VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL,
	email VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
	PRIMARY KEY ( contact )
);

Create a Dedicated MySQL User and Grant Privileges

I suggest to create a specific MySQL user exclusively for this project and grant the necessary privileges. Please perform the following steps:

1. Log in to MySQL:

You’ll need to have administrative access to your MySQL server. You can log in using the MySQL command-line client:

mysql -u root -p

Replace root with your MySQL username if it’s different, and you’ll be prompted for the MySQL root password.

2. Create a New User:

To create a new MySQL user, you can use the `CREATE USER` command. Replace `username` and `password` with your desired username and password:

CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

This creates a user called `username` that can only connect from the local machine. If you want to allow connections from any host, replace `localhost` with `%`.

3. Grant Privileges:

You can use the `GRANT` statement to assign privileges to the user. Here’s how to grant various privileges:

Grant all privileges on a specific database:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'username'@'localhost';

Grant specific privileges (e.g., GRANT CREATE, ALTER, DROP, INSERT, UPDATE, INDEX, DELETE, SELECT, REFERENCES, RELOAD) on a specific database:

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON database_name.* TO 'username'@'localhost';

Replace `database_name` with the name of the database you want to grant access to.

Grant all privileges on all databases (not recommended for security reasons):

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'localhost';

4. Apply Privileges:

After granting privileges, you need to apply the changes using the FLUSH PRIVILEGES command:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

5. Exit MySQL:

Now you can exit the MySQL Client:

exit;

Requirements and Installation

Make sure that you have Python installed on your system. You will also need to install PyMySQL (Documentation) library for connecting to and interacting with MySQL databases.

pip install PyMySQL

Note that, by-default Tkinter (Documentation) comes with most Python installations, so you likely won’t need to install it separately. However, if you don’t have it, you can install it using pip:

pip install tk

What can you learn from this project?

• Creating a graphical interface with Tkinter: Creating Tkinter windows, frames, labels, input widgets, buttons, etc.
• Connecting Python to MySQL: How to connect Python to MySQL.
• Database operations in Python: Access data from a table, update and delete operations, etc.  
• Creating multiple Python modules to manage several tasks.
• Object Orient Programming in Python: Using classes, objects, etc.

Output of the Student Management System

Be sure to watch the complete video to understand how this Student Management System operates.

Download the Source Code

Download the project files through the Download button below. The files will be in a zip format, and you’ll need to extract them to access the primary program files.

Summary

In this tutorial, we discussed how to create a Student Management System Project in Python. We built this project using Tkinter and MySQL which can handle Student Management tasks more effectively.

You need to follow some basic things before using this student manager application. For example, Installing MySQL server and all required modules or packages, creating a database and a table, etc.

The code is not suitable for copying and pasting because of its length. Therefore, I’ve provided the Project files in a zip format above, which you can download using the ‘Download’ button

Find more Python Projects related to Python and MySQL here:

👉Library Management System Project in Python with MySQL

👉Create a Login and Registration form using Python and MySQL

👉Contact Management System Project in Python with MySQL

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Happy Coding!