[Year 12 SofDev] SD U4O1 - ideas?

[Frank Van Den Boom]

Mark 
Some of this would be beyond my group given the time constraints. While
I know the focus is on "network", I understand this could just involve
an application accessed on a shared drive. 
To create an application that creates, updates and processes a single
random access file is a big enough challenge in my camp, so I will
probably do something similar to the attached (my 2006 task), but change
the scenario.
I like one of your ideas below on encrypting a file using a basic
algorithm, but would want to incorporate random files somehow, as I
believe that an ability to work with these positions them better for the
style of algorithm questions on the exam.
Frank

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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] SD U4O1 - ideas?

Looking ahead to U4O1 - a program to be used on a network.  I am
wondering what sort of tasks you guys and gals are considering for your
tasks.

My kids are going to freak if they're expected to create something like
the task in the 'Advice for teachers' in the study design (p.82) -
programming databases in VB is not for the feint of heart (and frankly,
the sample task is a bit redundant when real RDBMS can run over networks
anyway...)

Tossing a few semi-useful ideas around, I considered:

- a program to send a file to a bunch of network directories (e.g. "send
test.doc to FRE001, GEM002, TAS005")

- a centralised memo facility that people can go to and leave notes for
each other

- a simple networked resource booking sheet

- a simple tool to log technical problems that need fixing

- a utility to recursively search multiple directories for certain types
of banned files (a bit tricky, perhaps)

- a utility for dumb users which can automatically clean up network home
directories by tossing files of given types into subfolders (e.g. all
.jpg files in the root of the drive get tossed to the 'pictures' 
subdirectory)

- a simple encryption program to protect sensitive text data stored in a
network drive.  (Maybe using a simple substitution or transposition
algorithm) - or maybe a VB emulation of a 16-rotor Enigma machine?)

- a 'random joke of the day' dispenser

- a reverse-engineered version of Windows 2003 Server, crafted in VB.

Others?

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