CS6004NI Application Development Islington College – C# .Net Assignment

1st SIT COURSEWORK QUESTION PAPER Year Long 2023/2024 

Module Code: CS6004NI Module Title: Application Development Module Leader: Mr. Samyush Maharjan (Islington College)

Coursework Type: Individual Coursework Weight: This coursework accounts for 30% of your total module  grades. Submission Date: Thursday, 11 January 2024 When Coursework is  Week 8 given out: Submission  Submit the followings to the Islington College’s MST portal  Instructions: before the due date (before 1PM on the due date): ● The software application to be developed in C# ● The documentation in MS Word compatible or PDF  format Warning: London Metropolitan University and Islington College take  Plagiarism seriously. Offenders will be dealt with sternly.

© London Metropolitan University 

Plagiarism Notice 

You are reminded that there exist regulations concerning plagiarism. Extracts from University Regulations on Cheating, Plagiarism and Collusion 

Section 2.3: “The following broad types of offence can be identified and are provided  as indicative examples …. 

(i) Cheating: including copying coursework. 

(ii) Falsifying data in experimental results. 

(iii) Personation, where a substitute takes an examination or test on behalf of the  candidate. Both candidate and substitute may be guilty of an offence under  these Regulations. 

(iv) Bribery or attempted bribery of a person is thought to have some influence on  the candidate’s assessment. 

(v) Collusion to present joint work as the work solely of one individual. (vi) Plagiarism, where the work or ideas of another are presented as the  candidate’s own. 

(vii) Other conduct calculated to secure an advantage on assessment. (viii) Assisting in any of the above. 

Some notes on what this means for students: 

(i) Copying another student’s work is an offence, whether from a copy on paper  or a computer file and in whatever form the intellectual property being copied  takes, including text, mathematical notation and computer programs. 

(ii) Taking extracts from published sources without attribution is an offence. To  quote ideas, sometimes using extracts, is generally to be encouraged. Quoting  ideas is achieved by stating an author’s argument and attributing it, perhaps  by quoting, immediately in the text, his or her name and year of publication,  e.g. ” e = mc2 (Einstein 1905)”. A reference section at the end of your work  should then list all such references in alphabetical order of authors’ surnames.  (There are variations on this referencing system that your tutors may prefer  you to use.) If you wish to quote a paragraph or so from published work then  indent the quotation on both left and right margins, using an italic font where  practicable, and introduce the quotation with attribution. 

Further information concerning the existing London Metropolitan University  regulations concerning plagiarism can be obtained from  http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/academic-regulations

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Introduction 

This individual coursework requires developing and documenting an application  software. C# .NET framework should be used for the development. Your software  artefact must be submitted as a Visual Studio project. 

The coursework carries 30% of the module mark. 

Submission Deadlines: Week  

Coursework Submission in-class Demo: Week  

This individual coursework has 2 parts, both of which are to be submitted to RTE. (1) The software application to be developed in C# .NET 

(2) The documentation in MS Word compatible or PDF format 

NB– Anyone not meeting the deadline must submit the work to the Undergraduate  Registry with a completed mitigating circumstances form. It will only be marked if the  mitigating circumstances are accepted. All parts of the late submission must be  handed into the Undergraduate Registry with the form. You must ensure that you have  a receipt from the Registry for your work. 

Please note the rules on plagiarism 

The application should be implemented individually. This is not a group/team effort.  Any material which is a direct copy from someone else (student or another source) or  a close paraphrase/code must be indicated where it is quoted i.e. it must be made  clear what material is a quotation or close paraphrase e.g. by showing the text in italics  or quotation marks. It is not sufficient to show the source in a list of references or  bibliography. If you are unclear, please discuss your examples with your seminar tutor  or the module leader. Plagiarism is a serious offence and conviction for plagiarism  may lead to suspension from the University, even for a first offence (please see the  section on Academic Misconduct in the Student Handbook).

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Software Development Task 

Design and build a desktop application by analysing the below project overview and  requirements: 

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Bislerium café is currently on the lookout for a Point of Sale (POS) software  solution. This software will be accessed through password protection. Its primary  functions involve enabling staff to take customer orders and generate essential  reports. Customers will be presented with a range of choices for coffee types (such  as Cappuccino, Latte, Espresso, etc.) and various add-ins (like Cinnamon, Honey,  Ginger, Chocolate, Ice Cream, etc.) to enhance the flavours. It’s important to note that  each type and add-in will come with its own pricing, which can be configured by the  administrator using a separate password. 

Additionally, the software needs to incorporate a customer membership feature, providing diverse discounts and redemption opportunities. Members of the  coffee shop will have the privilege to redeem a free complimentary coffee of their  choice after every 10 purchases. Furthermore, regular members will enjoy a flat 10% discount on all their purchases for an entire month. It’s worth mentioning that “regular”  customers in this context are those who make daily purchases for a full month,  excluding weekends. This concept of being a regular customer operates like a monthly  subscription that renews automatically. To streamline the membership process,  customers will be issued NFC-enabled identification cards. However, given time  constraints, customers can opt to simply provide their username or phone number during the payment process. 

For the coffee shop staff, the software will empower them to view and document  purchases/sales transactions by saving them as PDF reports. A user-friendly  interface will allow for the generation of reports on either a daily basis or for specific  months. These reports will offer insights into the top 5 most frequently purchased  coffee types and add-ins, complete with corresponding quantities. Furthermore, the  generated reports will also include revenue. 

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Your software implementation should demonstrate the following features. 

1. Use of appropriate data types (built-in and programmer-defined) to handle the  application data. 

2. Use of appropriate data structures e.g., Arrays/List/Dictionary for the required  programming scenario. 

3. Use suitable algorithms e.g., sorting and searching. 

4. Define and use your class(es) or services. 

5. Provide a window-based user interface for your application 

6. Save and retrieve the object’s state using serialisation. 

7. Generate PDF report.

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Deliverables 

Your submission should include the software project and a reflective essay as  described below. 

1. Your software artefact is in the form of a Visual Studio 2022 or above project,  which should include the program’s source code and data file (if any). Make  sure to exclude .git, .vs, .github, bin, and obj folder. 

2. A reflective essay (1000 words), which concisely documents: 

a. detailed instructions to run the program. 

b. the architecture of your software in terms of software classes, clearly  indicating which classes to be of your own work and which classes from  other sources (e.g., from textbooks, online sources such as MSDN etc.). 

c. a detailed description of the classes’ properties and methods 

d. description of your algorithm to build the user record/ revenue collection  chart in the form of a flowchart and/or decision table. 

e. which data structures and which algorithms you have used, in which part  of your program, and why. 

f. your reflection of your own experience of using C# and Visual Studio for  the development task, which features you like and why, what issues you  experienced and your solution to overcome it.

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Marking Scheme

Section	Topic	Full  Marks
A	Implementation of Application	60
1.	Password-protected access, with an additional layer of  password security required for making changes to the prices  of coffee options and add-ins.	10
2.	A working view to order coffee(s).	5
3.	Ability to add multiple add-ins.	5
4.	Application’s state is saved and restored using any semi structured formats like JSON, CSV, or Excel.	10
5.	Membership registration with applied benefits like free coffee  redemption and discounts.	10
6.	A table to display all the purchases/sales transactions.	10
7.	PDF generation that includes daily or specific month  purchases/sales transactions featuring revenue and top 5  most-purchased coffees and add-ins.	10

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B Documentation 10

1.	Detailed instruction to run the program	2
2.	Concise description of your logical solution to each of the  implemented functions of the application.	2
3.	The software architecture, i.e., class and their purpose	2
4.	Detailed description of the classes’ properties and method	2
5.	Individual member’s own reflection of own experience	2
C	Programming Style	30
1.	Clarity of code, Proper Naming conventions & comments	5
2.	Sensible naming of programmer-defined variables, classes,  properties, and methods	3
3.	Useful comments in code	2
4.	Data validation and exception handling	10
5.	Interface design and usability of the system	10
	Total Marks	100

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