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Information ISE Technology for Industrial Engineers Fall/2001 Homework 4: Due THU 1 November 2001
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From now on, each homework and assignment will help you build your final project. The process will be broken up into manageable chunks. You are strongly encouraged to implement your project using Java and the techniques you have mastered in this class. Feel free to contact myself or Art Dhallin to discuss your project plans or for help implementing your ideas. The guidelines and this week's "chunk" are described below. As mentioned in the course syllabus, you have the option of writing a review paper on a topic related to the class material. Please see me if you would like to discuss this option. For those of you opting for the project, this week you will write the proposal and design the classes and methods necessary to implement your application.
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Determine an application area that is of interest to you in project management, market research, entertainment etc. Creativity is key here, and this is of one the criteria by which you will be graded. Describe in approximately 250 words your application area and the purpose of the application you will design. An example of an appropriate project is the Movie Application described in your Winston & Narasimhan text.
(b)
Who are the target users? Explain in approximately 250 words who the target users are and why this application would be desirable to this user group. Describe your main class, class variables and instance variables. Also, describe some of the most important methods that will act on your instances. Write pseudo-code for these methods. (80 points...