Requirements

Some suggestions for the project are given below. You are not restricted to this list, however -- you are encouraged to come up with something different if you want, as long as you run the idea past us first. In any case, your project must have the following characteristics:

• It must use CGI-Bin scripting to process submissions at the server side.
• It must use JavaScript to process/validate information in some way at the client side.
• It must interact with files in some way at the server side (to store, verify, or update data).
• It must use cookies in some way (either through JavaScript or CGI-placed cookies).

What to Turn In

At that time:

• You are to turn in a (well documented) hardcopy of all code for your project (including the contents of sample data files that you use).
• You are also to make available a link to your project on each home page of all group members.
• You will also be giving a short presentation/demonstration of your project (about 5 minutes). We will give details about how/where the demonstration will take place later.

Project Suggestions

Develop a system (similar to SOLAR, but hopefully with a better user interface) which would allow a student to select courses for a particular semester. It would have to verify that the courses selected are actual courses, offered that semester, and not closed. It would store the registration information in some way that a student could see and alter that information in the future. Since privacy issues are important, some password protection would be needed.

Develop a Web based system for students to request waivers and/or subsituations. A student should be able to request a waiver and be able to check to see if it has been approved or denied. A student could be expected to provide an E-mail address to which the approval/denial would be mailed. Data on approval/denial should be maintained in a database and forms printed for inclusion in the paper file. Since this would contain private information, password protection of some type would be needed.

Develop a Web based appointment manager for allow scheduling of appointments for all faculty in CSIS. A student would request an appointment with a given faculty member. This could be modeled after the current appointment page for Dr. Schueller.

Develop a Web based system for making on-line purchases. This would include selecting items (verifying that the items exist and are in stock), totaling up and computing a bill, and gathering payment and shipping information. Resulting orders would be removed from inventory and added to a shipping list (containing shipping information). Reasonable security steps are to be taken to verify account information.

Develop an on-line form that collects department assessment information from CSIS alumni (see Dr. Sullins for more details), and stores that information in an easy-to-use format. It should take steps to insure that information is not collected from the same alumni more than once.

Develop a Web based system for doing an on-line survey. It should read the format of the questions from a file, load them into a page, collect the information from the user, and store the results (in some statistically organized way) into a file. It should optionally allow the user to see the current results of submissions so far (perhaps expressed in terms of percentages for each choice based on votes recieved so far), or take steps to make sure that no user votes more than once.