Programming Assignment 3

Design AND IMPLEMENT A Corporate Information System

Discuss at PA3 Collaboration Space. Due on August 26 in class.

Design of Rolodex

This should sound somewhat familiar to you! Design a corporate information system for tracking the relationships between employees, managers, and groups in different companies. Think of this as the information in a Rolodex for someplace like Business Week.

• Companies have different focus areas, like McDonald's and fast food, Boeing and airplanes.
• Everyone has an office and a phone. People have names and social security numbers.
• Everyone has a manager (except the CEO, who is her own manager, as well as the manager of all the company presidents.). A manager is associated with a group of employees (and is also considered a member of that group of employees.)
• Each manager has a title.
• Each group of employees as a role in the company.

Creating an Interface for the Rolodex

Your user interface should look something like this:

• The top list box lists all companies.
• Once a company is selected, the second list box contains all the groups in that company.
• Once a group is selected, the third list box contains all the names of people in that group.
• Selecting a name displays all information about that name in the bottommost text box: company, company focus, name, office, phone, group role, manager, other members of group (not including self but including manager).

Details and Hand-in

We will call your program by executing Rolodex open. You should load in a sample database of at least three companies with at least three groups each and three employees per group.

• You may use the Coad and Nicola User Interface Package if you'd like, but you may also use VisualWorks as-is.
• Grading will be based on Grading Policy page.
• Please follow Design Documentation standards.
• Discuss at PA3 Collaboration Space.
• Due on August 26 in class. Please mail your code to cs2390@prism.gatech.edu with a turn-in code of pa3, i.e., your subject line should look like: "TI,pa3,123456789" Please bring your written documentation to class on June 3.