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This file contains COM 220 Week 7 Peer Review 1
Deadline: ( ), Computer Science - General Computer Science
Group Project: MiniQuest Database
Objective | Overview | Case Project Overview | Needed Reports | Sample Data | Some Known Assumptions | What Your Team will be Required to Do | Task 1 (Due at the end of Week 3) | Task 2 (Due at the end of Week 4) | Task 3 (Due at the end of Week 5) | Task 4 (Due at the end of Week 6) | Task 5 (Due at the end of Week 7) | Submission of Tasks | Team Member Responsibilities | Assessment | Grading Rubrics
Objective
The project for CIS336 is designed to touch all aspects of the fundamental concepts of database design and logical data modeling covered during the class. The project is team centered and each team will be responsible for designing, developing, and demonstrating the functionality of a database created based on a defined set of business specifications. At the end of the session, each project team will submit the database designed by the team and demonstrate the database's ability to deliver the required information as outlined in the project specifications. All aspects of the project will be covered first during the week or weeks prior to a deliverable, and each task deliverable in the project will be supported through the exercises and labs done in the course.
Overview
The first thing you need to do is read through the entire project document completely. Keep in mind that the overall objective of this project is to be able to deliver a working database that will be able to meet the desired outcomes as outlined in the complete specifications. The following project deliverables schedule outlines which weeks deliverables will be due. A more detailed overview of each deliverable will be presented later in this document.
Project Deliverables Schedule:
Task 1 (Due at the end of Week 3)
Task 2 (Due at the end of Week 4)
Task 3 (Due at the end of Week 5)
Task 4 (Due at the end of Week 6)
Task 5 (Due at the end of Week 7)
See Syllabus/"Due Dates for Assignments Exams" for due date information.
Each project task deliverable will be graded on the merits of that task. Tasks 1 through 3 have a weight of 30 points each. Task 4 has a weight of 45 points and Task 5 has a weight of 65 points, with the project as a whole worth a total of 200 points (20% of your total grade points). Each task has a defined due date and any task submitted late will be assessed a 10-point reduction in that task's grade.
Project teams will be assigned at the end of Week 1 or the beginning of Week 2. We will discuss each aspect of the project in more detail within the threads. This may be the first time that you have had to work as a member of a virtual project team, so if you are apprehensive about this, it is understandable. We will discuss different aspects of working in teams as we go through the class.
Case Project Overview
Terri Smith has contacted you with regard to an advertisement you had in the Age promoting your company's expertise in database design and implementation. Ms. Smith is the Managing Director of MiniQuest, a broadcasting company based in Melbourne, Texas, that broadcasts television via cable to a six-county area in Texas. From your discussion with Ms. Smith, you have identified the following information about the company:
MiniQuest currently has ten channels of five distinct types (2 Movie Channels, 2 News Channels, 2 Lifestyle Channels, 2 Documentary Channels, and 2 Sport Channels). Each channel shows programs on a 24-hour basis. Programs can appear on either of the two channels in a category or on both channels at any time.
A guide (Weekly Showing) is produced that lists all the programs on each channel on a daily basis. Currently all the program scheduling for MiniQuest is done manually based on the day the program is to air and the length of the program provided by the supplier. Once this is done, the guides are produced. When the Weekly Showing guide is produced, MiniQuest finds it difficult to work out when a program finishes so that it can determine when the next program starts. The Weekly Showing guide is currently mailed to all customers, but Ms. Smith wants to e-mail it in the future to all customers (who get a free e-mail account).
In addition to the programming problem, MiniQuest is experiencing the need to keep track of its customers in a better manner (it currently has paper cards and is doing this manually). Furious customers have been reporting that they have been getting fewer channels than they have paid for. As such, MiniQuest wants to incorporate the customer information and the programming information into one database that will produce a daily guide of shows to be sent to customers via e-mail. This guide could then be personalized to only list the shows that the customer is paying for. In addition, only those channels being paid for will be broadcast to that customer's home.
Ms. Smith has instigated a customer survey to determine which channel is the favorite for each customer. The result of this survey needs to be stored in the database along with the date of the survey.
Billing information also needs to be stored in the database. This information includes the billing date (either the 1st or 15th of the month, depending on when the customer signed up), the package(s) the customer has subscribed to (this determines the channels the customer receives - see Table 1), the amount to be paid monthly (based on the package(s) subscribed to), and whether the bill has been paid. Bills are currently sent on a monthly basis. These are currently sent by mail, but will be sent via e-mail in the future.
Ms. Smith has visions about how the system will operate on a daily basis. (This information is included so that you can get a feel for how the business operates. It should also give you some idea about how the interface would operate between the operator and your database. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO CONSTRUCT AN INTERFACE FOR THIS PROJECT.)
Each day the following may happen
The programs for the same day of the following week are entered into the database (if the day was Monday then you would be entering in next Monday's programs). The details to be entered come from the list of programs provided by the suppliers. Supplier lists generally include the program name, length, short description, channel type, and rating (see table 2). Once this is done, the programming for each channel for that day is developed.
Each customer is e-mailed his or her individual program guide for the next day (this is not in the scope of this project and will not be addressed).
New customers are entered into the system. As a ...
