The programming exam 5th of May 2008

Make testing easier in tasks Task 1 and Task 3 → create a directory d:\temp and put the XML-file of the Task 1 and the datastore of the Task 3 to the directory.

Task 1

Create a console application  CountCustomers, that reads our customer's data from a XML file and shows data in following format: Company, title, Lastname, FirstName and sales any (for example: Peanuts ltd, Mister Brown Charlie 10000€). Use this XML-file. Sort the company names to alphabetical order and show them in a console each name in own line. The application counts also sum of sales and shows it if needed. Put the XML-file to the directory d:\temp and point it in a starting arguments.

There are two starting arguments for application:
- the first argument defines the file name, the argument is obligatory
- the second argument "-c" defines sum of sales counted, the argument is not obligatory, if missing sum is not presented
- if no arguments are given, th application shows simple help text how to use the application.
For example the end-user could start the application with this command:
CountCustomers d:\temp\WorldCustomers2008.xml -c

Check also that the given file exists and it is accessible, check also that schema of a xml-file is proper.
Use normal try-catch-finally -exception handling.

Create a batch file test.bat to test all argument combinations.

Default time: 45 min

Points: max 12 points
- reading data 2 p
- presenting right data in right  format 2 p
- sum of sales
- arguments 2 p
- error handling 2 p
- batch file 2 p

Task 2

Create a Windows application "one handed fruit machine".

In the beginning a player has 10 zlotys, one spin costs one zloty. There is a button "Spin" where the player can start playing. Create eight different jpg-pictures, if possible same size, motifs of pictures you can select freely, for example they can be country flags. When the user plays the application draws three pictures.
More requirements:

• The mount of player's zlotys are shown all the time
• If there are two same pictures, player wins 5 zlotys
  If all three pictures are same, player wins 20 zlotys and machine gives a special sound
• If the player has no zlotys left, the application shows a big notification "Game Over" and he/she cannot continue playing.
• After you have done above mentioned create an extra feature:
  Under every picture there is a button for locking, the player can lock the selected picture. 
  The button is green when it is not locked it and red when it is locked. Locks are automatically removed after drawing. It is not allowed to lock all three pictures, so if the enduser does it, all locks will be open.
• If you have extra time you can "gold" your application with nice outlook and extra features

Default time: 1:00

Points: max 16 points
- user interface 2 p
- drawing 2 p
- animation of drawing 1 p
- winning logic 2 p
- real time mount of money 2 p
- extra feature locking 3 p
- attractive outlook 2 p
- extra "golden" features 2 p

Task 3

We have a group of programmers who need to share Tasks in a software projects.
Create a Web Application for handling Task data. The name and directory of the datastore is in Web.Config configuration file.
The datastore can be text file, xml-file or Access database. There are two kind of data in datastore: users and tasks. Create datastore with proper schema  and use it. Put datastore to the directory d:\temp and point it in Web.Config. It is not allowed to put the datastore any other directory.

About users there must be at least following data:
- first name
- lastname
- e-mail address (use it as username)
- password (no need for encryption now)

About tasks there must be at least following data:
- name of the task
- date when added to datastore
- due date (so date when task should be done)
- completed date (date when task was done, empty if not task is not finished)
- additional information (text)
- person in charge (from the users)

When a programmer navigates to the web site, he/she must identify and authenticate him/herself with username and password. If authentication is succesfully, the programmer is directed to main page. If authentication is not succesfully (three tries), the programmer is directed to an error page.
In the main page the  programmer can:
- add tasks
- remove tasks
- change details of tasks
- mark tasks completed (application automatically adds completed date when task is marked completed, the programmer just clicks button...)
- filter tasks with following filter:
 1) show only programmers own tasks
  2) show only programmers own uncompleted tasks
  3) show all programmers uncompleted tasks
  4) show all programmers completed tasks
  5) create your own filter

Use MVC-model, so put all data handling to own class, name it as BLData.

Default time: 1:15 min

Points: max 18 points
- datastore 2 p
- configuration file 2 p
- authentication  4 p
- reading data 2 p
- select 2 p
- editing 2 p
- deleting 2 p
- completing task 2 p
- filter 1p/each max 4 p
- MVC 2 p

Grading: