Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A452 Controlled Assessment Practical Investigation
- Research
- Practical Investigations with Hardware and
Software
- Practical Investigation with online resources
- Supplementary research = Web based enquiry, Contact
with IT professionals
- Research using computer industry publications
- Assignment/Tasks
- App Inventor
- Online tool for creating apps
- Uses a Block Programming Environment
- All program blocks and designs should be planned, explained, annotated and when necessary, Screenshotted
- App Details
- App required to display map of a university campus
- Computers available in each building have to be shown on the map
- Option to Cancel or Reserve a Computer
- Numbers adjust accordingly when people make reservations or cancel
- Requirements
- Map of campus with at least 10 labelled buildings
- The maximum number of computers in each building must be stored.
- When the image of a building is touched it displays the
available computers inside.
- A reserve and cancel buttons
must be created. The number of
available computers adjust after
making reservations or cancelling
- Operating the cancel
button should not
increase the amount of
computers above the
maximum in the building
- Feature that
displays the location
of computers in
other buildings
- Extra Features
- Describe an additional feature that would benefit the app
- Extend the original app with the new feature
- Explain all of the planning and code blocks used
- Discuss the issues of planning the
implementation of an online database for the app