Web Directory For Computer Science Projects Nidhi Goel Course: CS 491B Instructor: Prof. Chengyu Sun December 8, 2006

Introduction Web Directory for CS Projects ✔ Public computerized web library for student projects ✔ Useful in publicizing work done by CS department students  Showcase for good projects  Helpful in knowing about previous students' projects and achievements ✔ Useful in searching projects easily ✔ Useful in downloading project files s

Motivation CS department offers lot of courses every quarter ✔ This is the best resource for advertising student projects ✔ Projects made by students go as waste if nobody uses them – reduces motivation for doing interesting projects Students can show their projects to recruiters easily Projects available on this directory can be used by anyone for real life applications s

Technologies Used JSP(Java Server Pages) ✔ Generates web contents dynamically ✔ Used C-tag and SQL-tag libraries SQL server database ✔ Used for storing and maintaining user data Front Page Express ✔ Very useful in designing web pages quickly

System Design Password Data Project files Database Web Directory for CS Projects Login id USER Server

System Accessibility User Registration ✔ First a user has to register into the system System Login ✔ Once registered, user can log into system ✔ Features will be accessible according to user category

User Categories Administrator Instructors Students Guest Users s

Workflow - Administrator Home Page Login Manage Projects Search Projects Enable/Disable any User Approve/Reject any Projects View/Edit any Project Download any Project files Quick Search Comment on any project students Basic Search using student name, project name, description, class name, no. etc. Public FilesPrivate Files Rate the project as featured

Workflow - Instructor Home Page Login Manage Projects Search Projects Enable/Disable student(s) Approve/Reject group's student project(s) View/Edit group member's projects Download Project files Quick Search students Basic Search using student name, project name, description, class name, no. etc. Public FilesPrivate Files Comment on any project Rate the project as featured

Workflow - Student Home Page Login Manage ProjectsSearch Projects View/Edit Project Upload/Download Project files Basic Search using student name, project name, description, class name, no. etc. Quick Search View Project Comments Public FilesPrivate Files Add Project Individual ProjectGroup Project

What I Learnt... Design techniques ✔ Experimentation process ended with a lot of understanding and experience in software design ✔ Example: Found that use of table format was better than frames in this project How to upload files How to download files Methodologies for searching text in database How to using Java-mail

System Evaluation This application is very easy and quick to use Evaluated Upload Files function ✔ Uploaded files and original files matched byte by byte Download Files function ✔ Downloads files very quickly ✔ File comparison checks were positive Search function ✔ Gives search result very quickly for any text Other features working fine with no known bugs

Summary This application makes it very easy to advertise student projects ✔ Important features include search of projects, upload/ download of files, sending to students etc. Web directory is easily accessible from anywhere on internet. Learnt how to choose good design techniques in the process of accomplishing the project

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