Develop Interface Assignment

Introduction:

In this assignment you will be given a database and will create a user interface for it using the best practices that you have learned in the course. In industry designing and building a user interface takes months or even years to complete. We don't have that kind of time, so we'll only create a very small interface.

There are many different technologies that can be used to create a user interface, but we can think of them in four general categories: text, desktop, mobile and web. Each category has numerous technologies and languages for building user interface.

In our assignment we are going to use Java Swing to build a user interface. This was selected because Java is a language used in SWEN and Swing is one of the easier interfaces to use.

This application will also be using the Model-View-Controller design pattern, which you will learn about in upcoming modules. You will be given the Model and Controller. You will create the View and connect the 3 parts together.

There are two parts to the assignment:

The first part is to just design a user interface. You are free to design the interface using any tools that you would like to. Submit the design as a Word document. This design must have surrounding text (not just screen shots) explain how the screens work and navigation. Enough information should be provided so that another developer could program this interface. For this part of the assignment design the interface for the entire database.

The second part is to code the design (the best you can) in Java Swing. We will not have time to code that entire application, so focus in on the interfaces that the Product and Purchase Order tables. Your finished product should have a few working screens.