Students Serve

Contact: Trey Comstock, twcoms -at- wm.edu, 713-409-4618

Students Serve is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to award funding grants for worthwhile student projects. It is a unique non-profit which is completely managed by college students.

Students participate in various projects. Many of these need some minimal funding. Our task is to link donors to projects.

Some minimal aspects of this project include:

• The ability of both students and donors to log in.
• The ability to link both students and donors to projects.
• Some donors mya wish to be anonymous.
• Support for messagiing would be a nice feature.

The problem (like most real world problems) is somewhat ill defined. Part of your task is to identify the real problem to be solved.

Design Proposals

Each team should should show all of the following items (also deliver as a zip or tar file):

• Overview of the proposed system.
• Your database design, which should be in normal form.
• For each database table, you should give: the name of the table, its purpose, the name of each field, its type, its size (if text), and a comment or example.
• Forms should be an actual HTML web form (but without a real script) and should be neat and presentable.

Deliverables

Each team should deliver all of the following items as a zip or tar file:

• A copy of the final proposal, with commentary by the team as to:
  • Which parts are the propoposed system are complete and which are incomplete and their status.
  • What the team would do differently and why.
• For each database table, you should give: the name of the table, its purpose, the name of each field, its type, its size (if text), and a comment or example.
• A directory (or directories) of PHP files which comprise the delivered application.
• A directory (or directories) of PHP files which comprise the test cases and test data.
• All of the code is to be documented using PHPDoc (or an analogous tool).
• A description of the system from the maintainer's viewpoint.