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:
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Analysis: Looking at the current system. Find problems with it or ways to improve it. See what the user wants.
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Design: Getting ideas together from the information gathered in analysis. Design the new system.
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Technical Solution: Creating the new system using a programming language.
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Testing: Making sure the system you've created works. Checking validation is correct, processes do the right thing, etc...
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User Manual: A guide to the system you've created to help a user install it and use it. Outlines features and processes.
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System Maintenance: Documentation on how the system works, the specific aspects of the system.
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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
