Application Design Documentation Using Splash Screen
This is a continuation of the assignment you have completed in Module Four.
• Using Visual Studio, create a project for your proposed application.
• Create a sample splash screen for your application (a splash screen is a screen that runs at program startup). This screen should have the application name, your name, the date, and a descriptive note about the purpose of the application. Include a graphic that fits the project; you may use any public domain graphic (i.e.: no licensed or copyrighted material!) or create your own graphic.
NOTE: Think about what you can do and how much time it will take. How can you create an interesting application quickly and easily? Think seriously about what coding tasks were easy or interesting for you versus what tasks you disliked. Your goal is to design a practical project that you can complete during this course. DO NOT PROPOSE OR SUBMIT A PROJECT FROM THE TEXTBOOK!
Classes and Screens
In this assignment, you will update your final project proposal to plan for your project, creating a design that you can use to create your code project. While this is a working document, it is understood things many change between the design and implementation.
• What items you will be able to create and how you will create them?
• Create a storyboard (graphic) and list of menu and screen items to delineate your proposed user screen(s) and menus. Include a starting list of the classes you believe will be useful to your application.
• List and describe any user data inputs and outputs your application will require and produce.
• If you will be using data validation as one of your techniques, list and describe the criteria needed for each proposed field.
• Using Visual Studio, create sample class implementations. These will be code stubs that provide the basis for the classes you will be using.
Submit the revised document file and Visual Studio project to your instructor for grading.
Final Project: Application Development
Create the application you designed in Assignment from Module Three.
• You must use five programming techniques discussed in this class.
• Compile and test the application before you submit it.
• If your final project does not match the proposed design exactly, document the differences.
List the differences between the design document specification and the final implementation.
• Write a detailed explanation of why the design was not implemented. For example, if your design was too ambitious and you did not have time to implement it completely, what did you do instead, and why was the original too time consuming?
• Your code project must be in Visual Studio.
• Your documentation must be in a Word-readable format (.docx, .doc, .rtf, .txt).
• Your final submission for this class will consist of
o the application plus all project files (code files and other project files);
o documentation of differences between proposed design and final product.
Project Proposal
Title: ANC and Maternity tracker
The application is intended to keep track of the ANC visits expectant mothers make to health facilities throughout the pregnancy up to delivery.
Stages
Registration
The mothers have to be enrolled and details of such include name, LMP (Last Menstrual Period) date, gravida, date of birth, height and weight, from which indicators such as EDD and BMI may be calculated.
Follow up
For each visit, details such as weight, blood pressure, HIV test, danger signs, iron supplements, IPT (Intermittent Preventive Treatment) of malaria. Danger signs will inform referrals or specialized care.
Maternity
Here, details such as mode of delivery, Apgar score, weight of the baby, conditions of both mother and child at discharge will all be captured.
Reports
Several reports will be generated from the data sets collected.
Programming techniques
The 5 programming techniques to be utilized in this application include:
1. Use of the .net framework classes and creation of derived classes from them.
Several .net framework classes, for example, "FileStream" and "PrintDocument" will demonstrate my skill by their appropriate use in the application as well as exception handling.
2. Forms and data validation for data capture.
Forms will be used for data input. This data has to conform to the defined data types. For example, a date field cannot be used to enter string data. My skill will be demonstrated through careful validation and posting of the captured data for saving into a database.
3. Conditional and decision structures to control workflow.
Certain data may depend on another set of data. For example, if the mother was already tested for HIV, it will not be necessary to do the test. That calls for skip logic. If-else control structures will come in handy to demonstrate my skill.
4. Connecting to a database, for persistent data storage.
Databases provide data storage in multiple themes. To make the application efficient, MySQL database will be used to store all the data so as to make it easier to access and use. Database design, normalization and data mining skills will all be demonstrated.
5. Generation and printing of reports and analytics.
Summaries and reports are important to inform effective decision making. Several reports will be generated by the system, which can be printed for consumption. My skill will be demonstrated through the writing of optimized queries and presentation of the reports.