1. ICS 465 Midterm Project By David Neely and Brandon Lee

2. After you graduate You may not have all of the answers. What should you expect in the real world after you graduate? How do you find a job? How do you search for internships?

3. Who should you rely on for this kind of help? Your classmates and the Alumni of the ICS department at UH.

4. Your fellow Alumni are your Network. How do you keep this network alive with the least amount of pressure?

5. Keep in touch. Constantly.

6. Keeping in touch is hard. In a field like ours, it is essential.

7. Change is inevitable It’s a fact of life that as times change, information changes. It evolves.

8. Change is inevitable Email addresses change without warning. People move from place to place now more than ever. Even people’s names change. As you get older, networking becomes even more important.

9. Constant change is hard for one person to track. Many copies of the same piece of data lead to data inconsistencies The Solution must be centralized. The Solution must be dynamic. The Solution must be scalable. The Solution must be easy-to-use.

10. There has to be a simple and centralized way to keep in touch with your classmates…

11. We propose… A dynamic flash-based ICS Alumni map

12. Benefits of a dynamic flash-based ICS Alumni map Centralized data source. –Not only can you access this information from any internet-enabled computer in the world, you can also update it. Up to the Minute Information –Display up-to-the-minute information 90 percent browser saturation –Flash is the most downloaded plug-in on the internet. It is on almost 90 percent of all computers connected to the internet.

13. Use a combination of tools Microsoft Access Database Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Active Server Pages

14. One table contains… First name Last name Email address Graduation Year Type of Major (BA/BS) Photograph (url)

15. How do you get the database to talk to flash?

16. Use Active Server Pages Add a new user Update a user Delete a user Display all graduates Display only BS graduates Display only BA graduates

17. Using ASP, Flash can now communicate with the database ASP DATABASEASP FLASH

18. The prototype

19. Potential Obstacles We need to decide the scale of the project. Could this be extended to a world map later? Zip codes. This makes the precision of the map much more accurate. However the implementation still needs to be worked out. Flag collisions. How do we represent multiple flags at the same x and y coordinate. Obtaining test data.

20. In Conclusion… A centralized source, accessible from any internet enabled device. No duplicated information Data consistency Infinitely expandable Graphical representation of data

21. Dynamic Alumni Map