Tallahassee, Florida, 2015

COP4710

Database Systems

Project Overview

Fall 2015

Building a Database-driven Web-based Information System

• Project page:– http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~

zhao/cop4710fall15/project.html

• 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 stages2

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. 1st, 2nd

• Every stage has deliverables and must be approved by TAs to proceed to the next stage

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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%)

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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!

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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?6

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

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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”

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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 … …

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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 Akbas(akbas@cs.fsu.edu)

• 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 project10

Sample Projects

1. Ultimate Dining– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Wp_Y5yKoM

2. Social Cal– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-E35guOuNw

3. Global Energy– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CimxRS7Bpsg

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How to Implement a Web-based DB App?

Access the web appExample: IE, Firefox, iPhone, Chrome, Android

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Interface

Presentation

Logic

Data

Renders information, generates webpagesExample: HTML, DHTML, XML, Javascript, CSS, Flash

Manage data access, performs calculations, makes logical decisionsExample: PHP, PSP, Perl, Java, Python, C/C++, Ruby

Stores and manages dataExample: MySQL, Oracle

Internet

Client

Server

How to Implement a Web-based DB App?

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Interface

Presentation

Logic

Data

Web Programming

Database Programming

Tallahassee, Florida, 2015

This is your chance to work on

your dream

Questions?