Jedi Order -=Year 243=-
General Category => Questions & Requests => : Tomius Nu'vada December 01, 2011, 02:26 PM
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Don't suppose anyone is doing or done a computing a level?
I'm currently doing my coursework and finding very difficult. I have gotten through analysis ok but the design is killing me...
Any help or advice would be appreciated !
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Not my field of expertise; sorry!
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Not my field of expertise; sorry!
No problem :)
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Hopefully Rando or Kae get on and see this. I think they could probably help the most.
I can't help though. haha I'm international relations. Probably the farthest thing from this. :P
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Hopefully Rando or Kae get on and see this. I think they could probably help the most.
Ok when do they usually get on?
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I didn't do A-levels, but I did do IB (which no one's heard of, haha), and I did some AQA thing for GCSEs. What sort of stuff are you looking at? If it's database and all that jargon then I won't have a clue.
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Just depends. Rando probably checks at least once a day (doesn't always post though). Kae was on earlier today or yesterday, but he isn't an active member anymore, so he just stops by from time to time.
By IB do you mean international baccalaureate? I know some people who did that here in the US.
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I didn't do A-levels, but I did do IB (which no one's heard of, haha), and I did some AQA thing for GCSEs. What sort of stuff are you looking at? If it's database and all that jargon then I won't have a clue.
We have to create a entire new system from scratch for a client. We need to analysis the old system and what user wants. Design solution from the analysis. Create the system, test the system, document system( user manual, maintenance guide...) evaluate it...
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By IB do you mean international baccalaureate? I know some people who did that here in the US.
Yeah, looks like there's already more people on this forum that know about it than people who I've mentioned it to when they ask me 'what did you do in sixth form?', haha.
to create a entire new system from scratch for a client. We need to analysis the old system and what user wants. Design solution from the analysis. Create the system, test the system, document system( user manual, maintenance guide...) evaluate it...
I hate doing stuff like that. I think I had to do something similar in my first year of uni. Do you get to interview the client? Once you find what problems the old system has and find out what the client wants, it's just about learning how to make it.
If you want big marks, I wouldn't worry all that much about how amazing you actual build is or isn't, just concentrate on including absolutely everything in your report/guides/whatever, and follow the marking criteria like a mad man. If you make an effort to fix what they want fixing, then you'll be fine.
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to create a entire new system from scratch for a client. We need to analysis the old system and what user wants. Design solution from the analysis. Create the system, test the system, document system( user manual, maintenance guide...) evaluate it...
I hate doing stuff like that. I think I had to do something similar in my first year of uni. Do you get to interview the client? Once you find what problems the old system has and find out what the client wants, it's just about learning how to make it.
If you want big marks, I wouldn't worry all that much about how amazing you actual build is or isn't, just concentrate on including absolutely everything in your report/guides/whatever, and follow the marking criteria like a mad man. If you make an effort to fix what they want fixing, then you'll be fine.
Yeah I get to interview the client...
I'm not worried about having a working system it's the fact that I have no idea how to program it. At the end of my analysis I said I will use python (1st programming language I learned and most comfortable with it) combined with MySQL for databases. However I have no idea how to combine them both. I've downloaded MySQL but can't set it up...
I know SQL language but typically it's technical issues lol
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I've done some work with MySQL. My strongest area of expertise at this point in time is C, as it's what I've been writing in as of late.
What sort of things are you having trouble conceptualize? Sadly, I've never heard of AQA Computing, probably because I live in the states.
Rando
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I've done some work with MySQL. My strongest area of expertise at this point in time is C, as it's what I've been writing in as of late.
What sort of things are you having trouble conceptualize? Sadly, I've never heard of AQA Computing, probably because I live in the states.
Rando
The problem is I can't get MySQL to connect with the server and I have little experience with MySQL. I know SQL queries but that's it.
I also have no idea how to connect python and MySQL together to create the program.
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Here is a good tutorial on how to use the MySQLdb module with python. This guide assumes that you are developing in a linux/unix environment (which I personally prefer to do all my software development on). http://zetcode.com/databases/mysqlpythontutorial/
About the MySQL server itself, are you attempting to host a MySQL server locally (and if so, what operating system)?
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Here is a good tutorial on how to use the MySQLdb module with python. This guide assumes that you are developing in a linux/unix environment (which I personally prefer to do all my software development on). http://zetcode.com/databases/mysqlpythontutorial/
About the MySQL server itself, are you attempting to host a MySQL server locally (and if so, what operating system)?
Yes I am trying to host a server locally and I had windows 7 operating system
I've had a look at that tutorial and I honestly have no idea were I need to do that.
Do I do it in python shell, a SQL command line? Create a new python program?
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Some of it is command line for MySQL (setting up the demo databases and such) and the rest looks to be in python I believe.
Whenever I set up MySQL on a Windows machine it was fairly easy. Did you install the MySQL community server?
Rando
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Some of it is command line for MySQL (setting up the demo databases and such) and the rest looks to be in python I believe.
Whenever I set up MySQL on a Windows machine it was fairly easy. Did you install the MySQL community server?
Rando
yes however likei said earlir i cant seem to get it to connect :'(
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After this weekend, I will have finished my computing project which I've been working in for the last 7 months!
204 pages containing over 40,000 words
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I didn't do A-levels, but I did do IB (which no one's heard of, haha), and I did some AQA thing for GCSEs. What sort of stuff are you looking at? If it's database and all that jargon then I won't have a clue.
We have to create a entire new system from scratch for a client. We need to analysis the old system and what user wants. Design solution from the analysis. Create the system, test the system, document system( user manual, maintenance guide...) evaluate it...
I'm a systems analyst. :)
Let's talk.
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Your a bit too late :)
Project practically finsihed. Only got my evaluation to complete.
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Got 72/75 for this coursework 8)
Those months of work payed off.
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OH WOW.
That's great news, knight Tomius! Congratulations!
Er... What it was about? I tried to read through the topic, but actually didn't quite understand...
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The project involves making a complex programming project that involves data processing, and then writing a report about it. You have to make a program for a real user. Contains several sections:
- Analysis: Looking at the current system. Find problems with it or ways to improve it. See what the user wants.
- Design: Getting ideas together from the information gathered in analysis. Design the new system.
- Technical Solution: Creating the new system using a programming language.
- Testing: Making sure the system you've created works. Checking validation is correct, processes do the right thing, etc...
- User Manual: A guide to the system you've created to help a user install it and use it. Outlines features and processes.
- System Maintenance: Documentation on how the system works, the specific aspects of the system.
- Evaluation: Summarising the project. How successful the system was. Did it meet user needs. How could it be improved.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Computing/AQA/The_Computing_Practical_Project
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Congrats Tom! :)
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Oh wow! Nice!
Can I commission you a project for the Order? ;)
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Congrats Tom! :)
Oh wow! Nice!
Can I commission you a project for the Order? ;)
Thank you ;D
haha, that depends on what it is. ;)
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Weeeell... I'll finish the concept and PM it to you so we can discuss ;)
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:o ok. Looking forward to seeing whatever it is now.
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Actually, I ended writing it down here: http://www.jediorderclan.com/forums/index.php?topic=5932.15
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:-\ I don't think my programming skills are that advanced. Sorry I won't be able to help.