Assignment “TicketSeller”

Assignment “TicketSeller”

This assignment contains elements that you have learned over the past few weeks, including:

• Designing
  well-written and readable programs using a disciplined coding style,
  including documentation and indentation standards.
• Demonstrating how to implement logic involving sequence, selection, and repetition using Visual Basic.
• Creating
  useful and well-designed programs that use subroutines, functions,
  menus, dialog boxes, and other related form objects to solve practical
  business problems.

This assignment will contain two (2)
Parts: Event Planning Document and Coding phase. You must submit both
parts as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Remember,
you are only to demonstrate the menu function and not create a major
database to track sales.

TicketSeller is a new startup
ticketing company. It has contracted you to develop a Visual Basic
system to sell and print tickets for your local basketball arena. The
system will provide sales in a Microsoft Windows environment at the
ticket office. Management will use your program as a prototype for a
future global ticket system. Create your own sample data for the
designs. Use your creativity in this design.

Every software
project can be broken down to two parts. The first is the screen design.
It includes the graphical screen layout and how each object reacts when
it is triggered. A simple example is an exit button. The graphical
design will consist of a red button with the word “exit”. The event
planning document will define the name of the button, how is it invoked,
and the action that occurs. (See Part I below). For this part of the
assignment, you will turn in an event planning document created in Word.

The second part is the coding phase (see Part II below). This is the
actual Visual Basic code to complete the actions defined in the event
planning document. For this part of the assignment, you will turn in six
(6) screen shots and a copy of all the code created to implement this
ticket system. Remember, you are only to demonstrate the menu function
and not create a major database to track sales.

Part I: Event Planning Document
The event planning document consists of a table that defines the
actions for a specific object used on the Visual Basic form. This is an
important component to complete before you start building the
application for TicketSeller, because it provides a plan on how to
implement your application. For example, if you have two (2) ticket
prices, the event planning document will tell you to use a list box that
displays two (2)  ticket prices ($25 for upper level seats and $50 for
lower level seats).

1. Create an event planning document in
which you input the information pertaining to your application including
the following:
a. The object
b. The event trigger
c. The event process:
For this assignment, an example may be necessary. Please see the
sample below and refer to Figure 3-68 on page 158 of the textbook for
further example.

Progam name: Ticketpgm | Object | btnExit 
–  Developer: Joe Smith | Event Trigger | Click   –   Object:
frmMainMenu | Event process | Close the window
         

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be
  typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
  one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any
  additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the
  title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the
  course title, and the date.

Part II: Coding Phase
You must submit the following for the completion of Part 2 of this assignment.

• A
  total of six (6) screen shots, one (1) for each screen including setup
  screen menu, main menu, sell screen, report screen menu, daily report
  screen, and weekly report screen.
• The Visual Basic code for the entire subsystem.

The next step in the process is to take the design you created in the
last phase and implement it into Visual Basic. First create the forms
and drop the objects to the form. Next write the code behind the scenes
to create the menus. Remember, you are only to demonstrate the menu
function and not create a major database to track sales.

2. Create a Windows application to demonstrate the menu flow.
 a. Create a main menu system for the:
  i.  setup game / ticket menu.
  ii.  sell tickets menu.
  iii.  reporting menu.

 b. Create a setup subsystem to enter:
  i.  games.
  ii.  dates.
  iii.  prices.
  iv.  seats.

 c. Create a sell subsystem to:
  i.  display available tickets.
  ii.  sell tickets and take them out of the available ticket pool.
  iii.  keep track of the total sales.
  iv.  provide a group discount (10 or more tickets for 1 transaction – 10% off).

d. Business requires two (2) new screen reports to be generated from
the ticketing system. The first screen report shows the daily activity,
which shows the number of tickets sold and revenue generated. The second
screen report is weekly results. It has the total tickets sold, the
total revenue generated, and tickets available for sale. Create a report
subsystem for daily and weekly sales.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Apply graphical user interface design principles.
• Design conditional and iteration constructs appropriate to a given programming task.
• Design well-written and readable programs using a disciplined coding style, including documentation and indentation standards.
• Create Visual Basic applications that deploy on multiple platforms such as Web pages, Windows, and Office environments.
• Demonstrate how to implement logic involving sequence, selection, and repetition using Visual Basic.
• Create
  useful and well-designed programs that use subroutines, functions,
  menus, dialog boxes, and other related form objects to solve practical
  business problems.