Tallahassee, Florida, 2015 COP4710 Database Systems Project Overview Fall 2015

Building a Database-driven Web-based Information System Project page: – Team work – A group of 1 or 2 people Goal: – Identify an application domain that Requires a relational database Accessible over the web (SQL APIs) – Design the database & Define application functionalities – Implement – Demo & report Milestone in 4 stages 1

Multi-stage Task Stage 1: Group formation (name, member info) – Due: Thursday Sept. 10th Stage 2: A detailed description of your real-world application and the Entity-Relationship diagram – Due: Thursday Oct. 1st Stage 3: Development plan – Due: Thursday Oct. 29th Stage 4: Demo and final report – Due: Dec. 1 st, 2 nd Every stage has deliverables and must be approved by TAs to proceed to the next stage 2

Grading Project : 25 points* – You can choose to do a simpler project (20 points) with no Web interface and access functionalities, with 5 points deduction – Stage 1: 0% – Stage 2: 15% A one- or two-page report with the ER diagram of your application, plus English descriptions and assumptions you make – Stage 3: 15% A one or two-page report for development plan – Stage 4: 70% Final demo (55%) 5- to 10-page report (15%) 3

How to choose a good project topic? Your application must be useful – Will there be people using your application? – Why should they use your application? Your application must be realistic – Your data are supposed to be real – Where do you get your data? – Amount of data in database must be reasonable You should have fun – Find an application you like to do and have fun with it Remember that your application could be the next startup! 4

Some Interesting Project Idea Academic: – Course material search, project partner search, … Entertainment: – Book recommendation, music/playlist sharing, fantasy football analysis, …. Productivity systems: – Task management, human resource management, … Healthcare: – Physician recommendation Social Media: – Facebook/Twitter mashup, … What is your crazy idea? 5

Project Requirements Basic functions: 1.Insert records to the database 2.Search the database and print returned results Must demo several interesting queries Aggregation queries At least one query must involve join of multiple tables 3.Show how to update records 4.Show how to delete records 6

Project Requirements Advanced Functions: – Should be relevant and useful for your application – Don’t exist or aren’t efficiently supported in equivalent web sites/applications – Go beyond the basic functions – Should be technically challenging – Examples: Creative use of Google Map Data analytics using data mining or machine learning – Not: User-friendly interface or “I code the site with AJAX” 7

How to Do Programming Pick one of your favorite relational databases – MySQL (recommended) – PostgreSQL (recommended) – SQLite – Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server …… Pick one of your favorite programming languages – PHP (recommended) – Python, Ruby, Perl – Java, C# – C/C++ Platform – LAMP (XAMPP)/IIS … … 8

Project Tips Read Projects page on our course website to get started Start early! – Unexpected issues – Form groups now! Have a questions? – All programming related questions should be routed to our TA, Esra Academic integrity – Work closely with your group-mate, copy/plagiarism among groups are prohibited – If you consult open source projects on the Web, cite them properly in your project 9

Sample Projects 1.Ultimate Dining – Social Cal – Global Energy –

How to Implement a Web-based DB App? Access the web app Example: IE, Firefox, iPhone, Chrome, Android 11 Interface Presentation Logic Data Renders information, generates webpages Example: HTML, DHTML, XML, Javascript, CSS, Flash Manage data access, performs calculations, makes logical decisions Example: PHP, PSP, Perl, Java, Python, C/C++, Ruby Stores and manages data Example: MySQL, Oracle Internet Client Server

How to Implement a Web-based DB App? 12 Interface Presentation Logic Data Web Programming Database Programming

Tallahassee, Florida, 2015 This is your chance to work on your dream Questions?