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Product Ordering System and Design Document

In the first Individual Project, you will be laying the groundwork for all of the work in this course. You will do the following:

• Select a company and one of its products for which you will be creating an online ordering system. Get your instructor’s approval for your selections.
• Install the required software.
• Install the provided skeleton ordering system.
• Customize the skeleton ordering system to meet your requirements.
• Construct the shell document that will be your ordering system description.
• Describe your ordering system using Unified Modeling Language (UML) Use Case Diagrams.

Now that you have a better understanding of object-oriented programming, you will use this approach to develop your interactive Java program that supports a company of your choosing to sell products online.

In this Individual Project, you will represent the design for your application using the UML diagramming techniques called use case diagrams. Later in the course, you will use another UML diagram to help design and describe your program, a class diagram.

You will also be setting up the foundation design document outline that you will add to each week. The combined Individual Project assignments will be your final Key Assignment design document deliverable.

Throughout this course, you will also be working on several aspects of this application that will result in the final version of a functioning interactive Java program. Additional information and the deliverables for each Individual Project will be provided in the assignment description for this project.

Project Selection

The first step will be to select a company and product(s) that are real or fictitious as the target for your ordering application. This project will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course, and it should conform to the following guidelines:

• Nontrivial: The selected project company and products it sells should be realistic and only a few products (10 or fewer) should be described.
• Domain knowledge: You should be familiar enough with the company and the products that it sells.

Select a company and products that fit these requirements, and submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. You should seek approval within the first few days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval. Your proposal must include the following:

• The name of the company
• A description of the products
• One specific product that you will use initially for your ordering system
• The name of the product, its possible colors, and the range of costs