IFS 106

Term Project

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Grading

The project is worth 10 points, or 10% of your grade.

It's due Tuesday March 6th... which is our last regular class.


Description

Your task is to create an uber-homework that I can use for my future IFS 106 classes.

For your project, this uber-homework should:

  •  Be similar in style to our textbook's Cases & Places database questions

  •  Include creation of (at least) the following:

    •  3 tables

    •  50 records total across all tables

    •  5 queries of different flavors (join, parameter, criteria, wildcard, etc)

    •  2 reports with fancy formatting

    •  1 advanced form or switchboard or something

    •  Some exported web pages for your tables and reports, linked to your Noctrl student web page

All the numbers above are minimums, and you can certainly curry my favor by doing a bit more. Ha!

But what topic? You can select any "real" topic where your data comes from your personal life, the web, an almanac, or encyclopedia. Try and select something associated with your major. Hint: The best projects come from students who are interested in their topics. I will ask for your topic the week before the project is due.


Deliverables

I'll look for the following project deliverables:

  1. Problem description - Write a one or two page description of your homework problem. I recommend using Word, but whatever. Indicate somewhere what the source of your raw data is.

  2. Raw Data - Include the original raw data that comprises your database, whether it is a web page, spreadsheet, pieces of scrap paper, or whatever.

  3. Solution DB - Create an Access database that (niftily) solves your own homework.

  4. Web page - Show your problem description, tables and a report or query (or two) on your Noctrl student web page.

Please place everything but the web page in a folder called "project" on your k: drive.

OK, that said... if you'd like to try something a little different with your project, just see me and we'll work it out.

thanks... yow, bill

  

email: wtkrieger@noctrl.edu 

web site: william.krieger.faculty.noctrl.edu/