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Unit 01: Programming

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Unit 01: Programming

Assignment 01
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Higher National Diploma in Computing
Assignment Brief

Student Name /ID Number

Unit Number and Title Unit 01: Programming

Academic Year 2021/22

Unit Tutor

Assignment Title Design &Implement a GUI based system

using a suitable Integrated Development
Environment

Issue Date

Submission Date

IV Name & Date

Submission Format

This submission will have 3 components

1. Written Report
This submission is in the form of an individual written report. This should be written in
a concise, formal business style using single spacing and font size 12. You are
required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all
work must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing
system. Please also provide a bibliography using the Harvard referencing system.
(The recommended word count is 1,500–2,000 words for the report
excluding annexures)

2. Implemented System (Software)

The student should submit a GUI based system developed using an IDE. The system
should connect with a backend database and should have at least 5 different forms
and suitable functionality including insert, edit and delete of main entities and
transaction processing.

3. Presentation
With the submitted system student should do a presentation to demonstrate the
system that was developed. Time allocated is 10 to 15 min. Student may use 5 to 10
PowerPoint slides while doing the presentation, but live demonstration of the system
is required. Evaluator will also check the ability to modify and debug the system using
the IDE.

Unit Learning Outcomes:

LO1. Define basic algorithms to carry out an operation and outline

the process of programming an application.

LO2. Explain the characteristics of procedural, object-orientated

and event-driven programming.

LO3. Implement basic algorithms in code using an IDE.

LO4. Determine the debugging process and explain the

importance of a coding standard

Assignment Brief and Guidance:

Activity 1

A. The Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following integer sequence.
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ……..

In mathematical terms, the sequence Fn of Fibonacci numbers is defined by the recurrence

relation.

Fn = F n-1 + F n-2

B. Factorial of a non-negative integer, is multiplication of all integers smaller than or equal

to n. For example, factorial of 6 is 6*5*4*3*2*1 which is 720.
 n! = n * (n - 1) * …….. 1

Define what an algorithm is and outline the characteristics of a good

algorithm. Write the algorithms to display the Fibonacci series and the
factorial value for a given number using Pseudo code. Determine the
steps involved in the process of writing and executing a program and
carry out an analysis of writing the code phase by discussing the
potential challenges faced.
Take a sample number and dry run the above two algorithms. Show the
outputs at the end of each iteration and the final output. Examine what
Big-O notation is and explain its role in evaluating efficiencies of
algorithms. Write the Python program code for the above two algorithms
and critically evaluate their efficiencies using Big-O notation.

Activity 2

2.1 Compare and discuss what is meant by a Programming

Paradigm and the main characteristics of Procedural, Object oriented
and Event-driven paradigms and the relationships among them. Write
small snippets of code as an example for the above three
programming paradigms using a suitable programming language(s)
and critically evaluate the code samples that you have given above in
relation to their structure and the unique characteristics.

Activity 3 and Activity 4 are based on the following Scenario.

Grifindo Toys is a small-scale Toy building company which is located in United Kingdom (UK)
and currently they have 50 employees working at their headquarters. They are looking for a
simple payroll system to calculate the salaries of their employees and you are hired as a
freelance software developer to build their payroll system.

Specifications for the payroll system as follows,

Grifindo Toys Payroll System mainly contains five components and the specifications for the
components are follows,

1. Employee Component.
 Admin should be able to register employee details to the system (including
monthly salary, overtime rates-hourly, allowances).
 Admin should be able to update all employee details in the system (Update and
Delete including monthly salary, overtime rates-hourly, allowances).
 Admin should be able to view individual employee details, view all employees
details, search employees.
2. Salary Component

Admin should be able to input the date range to calculate the salary. Salary cycle
begin date and the end date should be given to calculate the monthly salary.
Salary cycle begin date and end date will be defined in the settings component
and if the user enters something else the system should display an error message.

The admin should be able to enter the no of leaves an employee has taken with
number of absent days, no of holidays for the given date range. If an employee
has worked any overtime hours the admin should be able to enter that also when
calculating the Base pay value.
 Base Pay need to calculate based on the following points,

Base Pay (Monthly Salary: salary_cycle_date_range, eg: 30 days): Each

employee will be paid monthly
If any employee couldn’t cover salary_cycle_date_range (eg:-30 days)
attendance the system should calculate the no-pay value according to the below
mention formula,

No-pay-value = (Total_Salary/salary_cycle_date_range) *No_of_absent_days

Base Pay need to calculate according to the below mentioned formula

Base Pay value = Monthly_Salary + Allowances +

(Over_time_rate*no_of_overtime_hours)

Gross Pay need to calculate according to the below mentioned formula

Gross Pay = Base_Pay_value – (No_pay_value +

Base_Pay_value*government_tax_rate)

All the calculated No-pay-value, Base-pay-value and Gross pay value should
record in the database under each employee for each month. This component
should generate reports such as monthly salary report for an employee, overall
salary summary for couple of months for an employee, No-pay-value, base-pay-
value, and gross pay value of all the employees for a given month range.

3. Settings Component
 This component should allow the admin to change parameter values such as

i. Date Range for a salary cycle. Eg:- 30 days

ii. Salary cycle begin date
iii. Salary cycle end date
iv. No of leaves for an employee for a year.

Activity 3

Write the complete pseudocode for the salary component of the above system (report
generation is not needed). Use the visual studio IDE (using C#.net) to implement the
above three components. Ideally there should be three separate classes for the above
three components and the developer can decide the methods which need to include in
those classes. Design the suitable database structure for keeping the data of the above
system.
Analyze the features of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and explain how
those features help in application development. Evaluate the use of the Visual StudioIDE
for your application development contrasted with not using an IDE.
Activity 4
2.1 Design and build a small GUI system for the above scenario and it should be a complete
functional system with all the functions which has described in the above scenario with the
database structure which has designed in activity 3.
2.2 Examine debugging process and the features available in Visual studio
IDE for debugging your code more easily. Evaluate how you used the
debugging process to develop more secure, robust application with
examples.

2.3 Explain and outline the coding standards you have used in your
application development. Critically evaluate why a coding standard is
necessary for the team as well as for the individual.
Activity 2

2.2 Compare and discuss what is meant by a Programming

Paradigm and the main characteristics of Procedural, Object oriented
and Event-driven paradigms and the relationships among them. Write
small snippets of code as example for the above three programming
paradigms using a suitable programming language(s) and critically
evaluate the code samples that you have given above in relation to
their structure and the unique characteristics.

Activity 3 and Activity 4 are based on the following Scenario.

Grifindo Toys is a small-scale Toy building company which is located in United Kingdom (UK)
and currently they have 50 employees working at their headquarters. They are looking for a
simple payroll system to calculate the salaries of their employees and you are hired as a
freelance software developer to build their payroll system.

Specifications for the payroll system as follows,

Grifindo Toys Payroll System mainly contains five components and the specifications for the
components are follows,

4. Employee Component.
 Admin should be able to register employee details to the system (including
monthly salary, overtime rates-hourly, allowances).
 Admin should be able to update all employee details in the system (Update and
 Delete including monthly salary, overtime rates-hourly, allowances).
 Admin should be able to view individual employee details, view all employees
details, search employees.
5. Salary Component

Admin should be able to input the date range to calculate the salary. Salary cycle
begin date and the end date should be given to calculate the monthly salary.
Salary cycle begin date and end date will be defined in the settings component
and if the user enters something else the system should display an error message.

The admin should be able to enter the no of leaves an employee has taken with
number of absent days, no of holidays for the given date range. If an employee
has worked any overtime hours the admin should be able to enter that also when
calculating the Base pay value.

Base Pay need to calculate based on the following points,

Base Pay (Monthly Salary: salary_cycle_date_range, eg: 30 days): Each

employee will be paid monthly
If any employee couldn’t cover salary_cycle_date_range (eg:-30 days)
attendance the system should calculate the no-pay value according to the below
mention formula,

No-pay-value = (Total_Salary/salary_cycle_date_range) *No_of_absent_days

Base Pay need to calculate according to the below mentioned formula

Base Pay value = Monthly_Salary + Allowances +

 (Over_time_rate*no_of_overtime_hours)

Gross Pay need to calculate according to the below mentioned formula

Gross Pay = Base_Pay_value – (No_pay_value +

Base_Pay_value*government_tax_rate)

All the calculated No-pay-value, Base-pay-value and Gross pay value should
record in the database under each employee for each month. This component
should generate reports such as monthly salary report for an employee, overall
salary summary for couple of months for an employee, No-pay-value, base-pay-
value, and gross pay value of all the employees for a given month range.

6. Settings Component
This component should allow the admin to change parameter values such as

i. Date Range for a salary cycle. Eg:- 30 days

ii. Salary cycle begin date
iii. Salary cycle end date
iv. No of leaves for an employee for a year.

Activity 3

Write the complete pseudocode for the salary component of the above system (report
 generation is not needed). Use the visual studio IDE (using C#.net) to implement the
above three components. Ideally there should be three separate classes for the above
three components and the developer can decide the methods which need to include in
those classes. Design the suitable database structure for keeping the data of the above
system.
Analyze the features of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and explain how
those features help in application development. Evaluate the use of the Visual StudioIDE
for your application development contrasted with not using an IDE.
Activity 4
2.4 Design and build a small GUI system for the above scenario and it should be a complete
functional system with all the functions which has described in the above scenario with the
database structure which has designed in activity 3.
2.5 Examine debugging process and the features available in Visual studio
IDE for debugging your code more easily. Evaluate how you used the
debugging process to develop more secure, robust application with
examples.

2.6 Explain and outline the coding standards you have used in your
application development. Critically evaluate why a coding standard is
necessary for the team as well as for the individual.

Grading Rubric

Grading Criteria Achieved Feedback

LO1 Define basic algorithms to carry out
an operation and outline the process of
programming an application.

P1 Define an algorithm and outline the process

in building an application

P2 Determine the steps taken from writing code

to execution.

M1 Analyse the process of writing code,

including the potential challenges faced.

D1 Evaluate the implementation of an algorithm

in a suitable language and the relationship
between the written algorithm and the code
variant

LO2 Explain the characteristics of

procedural, object orientated and
event-driven programming

P3 Discuss what procedural, object orientated

and event driven paradigms are; their
characteristics and the relationship between
them.

M2 Compare the procedural, object-orientated

and event driven paradigms used in given source
code of an application

D2 Critically evaluate the source code of an

application that implements the procedural,
object-orientated and event-driven paradigms, in
terms of the code structure and characteristics.
LO3 Implement basic algorithms in code
using an IDE.
 P4 Write a program that implements an
algorithm using an IDE.

M3 Enhance the algorithm written, using the

features of the IDE to manage the development
process.

D3 Evaluate the use of an IDE for development

of applications contrasted with not using an IDE.

LO4 Determine the debugging process

and explain the importance of a coding
standard

P5 Explain the debugging process and explain

the debugging facilities available in the IDE.

P6 Explain the coding standard you have used in

your code.

M4 Examine how the debugging process can be

used to help develop more secure, robust
applications.

D4 Evaluate the role and purpose of a coding

standard and why it is necessary in a team as
well as for the individual.

Acknowledgement

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the lecturers and staff of

ESOFT Metro Campus for their continuous guidance, support, and
encouragement throughout the completion of this assignment.
A special thanks to my programming instructor for providing valuable
insights and resources that helped me understand the core concepts of
algorithm design, programming paradigms, and GUI development using
Visual Studio.
I also extend my appreciation to my fellow classmates for their collaborative
spirit and helpful discussions that contributed to a better learning
experience.
Finally, I thank my family and friends for their constant motivation and
support during the preparation of this assignment.

Fathima Insha

Contents

Acknowledgement…………………………………………………………………………...1
4
1.1 Define what an algorithm is and outline the characteristics of a good
algorithm.
Develop algorithms for linear search and binary search using Pseudo
code………………..19 1.2 Describe the steps involved in the process of
writing and executing a program. Take an array of 10 or more elements and
dry run the above two algorithms. Show the outputs at
the end of each iteration and the final output……………………..
………………………..29

1.3 Define what Big-O notation is and explain its role in evaluating
efficiencies of algorithms. Write the Python program code for the above two
algorithms and critically
evaluate their efficiencies using Big-O
notation……………………………………………34

2.1 Define what is meant by a Programming Paradigm. Explain the main

characteristics of

Procedural, Object oriented and Event-driven paradigms and the

relationships among

them…………………………………………………………………………………………39
2.2 Write small snippets of code as example for the above three
programming paradigms

using a suitable programming language(s)

…………………………………………………42
2.3 Critically evaluate the code samples that you have above in relation to
their structure

and the unique

characteristics………………………………………………………………47

In the second example this codded example for Object oriented

programming paradigm using the programming language C#. The Object-
oriented programming is based on the concept
of "objects"…………………………………………………………………………………50
Activity 03………………………………………………………………………………….53
3.1 Design suable algorithms for vehicle tariff calculation for rents and
hires. Ideally 3 functions should be developed for this purpose as
follows………………………….....53 3.2 Implement the above algorithms using
visual studio IDE (using C#.net) and design the suitable database structure
for keeping the tariffs for vehicle types and different packages which must
be used for implementing the above functions……………………..56 3.3
Analyze the features of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and
explain how those features help in application development. Evaluate the
use of the Visual Studio IDE for your application development contrasted
with not using an IDE…………………72

4.1 Design and build a small system to calculate vehicle hire amounts and
record them in a database for customer billing and management reporting
for Ayubo drive. This includes the completing the database design started
in 3.2 and implementing one or more GUIs for vehicle, vehicle type, and
package add/edit/delete functions. It essentially requires an interface for
hire calculation and recording function described above. Generating
customer reports and customer invoices are not required for this course
work………………………77 4.2 What is debugging an application? Explain the
features available in Visual studio
IDE for debugging your code more easily. Evaluate how you used the
debugging process to develop more secure, robust application with
examples………………………………..110
4.3 Explain the coding standards you have used in your application
development. Critically evaluate why a coding standard is necessary for the
team as well as for the individual…...115
List of references…………………………………………………………………………...119

Figure of contents
Figure 1 How Linear search works…………………………………………………………
25

Figure 2 How Binary search works…………………………………………………………

27 Figure 3 Output for the C++
code…………………………………………………………..43
Figure 4 Output for the C#
code…………………………………………………………….45 Figure 5 Output for the
python paradigm…………………………………………………...46
Figure 6 Flowchart for rent
calculation……………………………………………………..53
Figure 7 Flow chart for day tour hire
calculation…………………………………………...54

Figure 8 Flow chart for long tour hire

calculation………………………………………….55
Figure 9 output for rent calculation code….
………………………………………………..57
Figure 10 Output for day tour
calculation…………………………………………………..59
Figure 11 Output for long tour
calculation…………………………………………………61

Figure 12 Ayubo Drive Database

Structure………………………………………………62

Figure 13 insert values for package

registration……………………………………………62

Figure 14 Before
update…………………………………………………………………….64
Figure 15 After update……………………………………………………………………...64
Figure 16 The Before Delete Package
Table……………………………………………….66
Figure 17 The after delete package
table………………………………………………….66 Figure 18 Insert values to
vehicle registration……………………………………………..67

Figure 19 Before update……………………………………………………………………68

Figure 20 After update……………………………………………………………………...69
Figure 21 Before
delete……………………………………………………………………..70
Figure 22 After delete………………………………………………………………………70
Figure 23 Example visual studio IDE………………………………………………………
72
Figure 24 Login page for ayubo
drive………………………………………………………77 Figure 25 Display exit
button……………………………………………………………….78
Figure 26 Login as
admin…………………………………………………………………...82 Figure 27 Main
menu……………………………………………………………………….83
Figure 28 Logout button……………………………………………………………………83
Figure 29 Insert values for vehicle
registration…………………………………………….85

Figure 30 Update seat

capacity……………………………………………………………..86

Figure 31 After update seat

capacity………………………………………………………..87

Figure 32 Delete value………………………………………………………………………

88 Figure 33 Insert driver
details……………………………………………………………….89 Figure 34 Update
over night charge…………………………………………………………90
Figure 35 Delete driver
id…………………………………………………………………...91
Figure 36 Insert package
detailes……………………………………………………………92

Figure 37 Update package type……………………………………………………………

93 Figure 38 Delete package
id…………………………………………………………………94
Figure 39 Login as
receptionist………………………………………………………………95

Figure 40 Main menu for

receptionist……………………………………………………….95 Figure 41 Insert rent
values………………………………………………………………….98
Figure 42 Update return
date………………………………………………………………...99 Figure 43 Delete rent
details………………………………………………………………..100
Figure 44 Insert details for day tour hire
calculation…...........................................................101
Figure 45 Update package
type………………………………………………………………102
Figure 46 Delete detail from day tour hire
calculation……………………………………..104
Figure 47 Insert detail for long tour hire
calculation………………………………………105 Figure 48 Update vehicle
type……………………………………………………………107

Figure 49 Delete details in long tour hire calculation……………………………………...109

Figure 50 The debugging
menu…………………………………………………………….110

Figure 51 Break point in code………………………………………………………………

111
Figure 52 Run to click in visual
studio……………………………………………………..111

Figure 53 Examine exceptions………………………………………………………………

112 Figure 54 Error
list…………………………………………………………………………..114
Figure 55 Exception…………………………………………………………………………
114