Category: Writing

Assignment 2 – Beer Jabber
“It’s like Yik Yak, but for opinions about Beers”
Overview
This is an individual assignment in which you will explore the use of data interchange between web servers
and browsers, dynamic construction of page content, and API design, using PHP, JavaScript, and JSON.
Important: This assignment specification is generated just for you. Do not distribute this specification.
Timelines and Expectations
Percentage value of task: 20%
Due: Refer to Course Description
Learning Outcomes Assessed
The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment:
K2. Contrast the capabilities and limitations of client-side and server-side web code
K3. Detect opportunities for increasing security and privacy of web applications
S1. Develop client/server web applications using client-side and server-side code
S2. Connect to and manipulate a database management system programmatically using server-side
code
S3. Design and implement a RESTful web application programming interface (API)
S4. Implement a client-side web application which uses a client-side programming language to access a
web API
A1. Design, develop, test, and debug client/server web applications to provided specifications
Assessment Details
Introduction
Beer Jabber is a single-page web app that allows users to post their opinions about beers online, and reply
to other people’s opinions.
Users can post new opinions, which include some review text and, optionally, their name. Opinions
submitted without a name are labelled “anonymous” and should have distinct formatting.
Users can additionally “like” other opinion posts.
Database
A simple database with one table is sufficient to model the database requirements for this assignment,
however you may if you wish extend and/or normalize this database.
The database has the following structure:
BeerPost ( id, name, text, post_date, likes, reply_to )
Attachments:
3107690_1_ITECH3108-Assignment-2.pdf

This assessment is designed with two goals in minds. Throughout your time
at CQU you will be required to write literature reviews. This assessment will
help understand how to identify and interpret the different parts of this
written academic communication genre. In addition, you are required to
present your knowledge in an essay. As we discussed in the lecture,
academic essays are a particular communication genre that is different from
other written academic communication genre, such as a report. This
assessment provides you with an understanding of how to write academic
essays in the future.
For this essay you must choose to write about any one of the weekly articles
listed on the unit Moodle page. You may not write about articles not listed
on the unit Moodle site. The essay must address the following areas:
Identify and describe the topic of the research article,
Identify and describe the question(s)/problem(s)/issue(s) that the
article addresses,
Discuss the significance of question(s)/problem(s)/issue(s),
Describe major findings/conclusions, and
Discuss the significance of the findings for future communication
research or management communication practices.
Other: Given all students will do the same assessment, plagiarism will be monitored
to ensure that your submitted work is original and not purchased or copied
from other students. Where assessments are found to be similar, penalties
may apply in accord with University policy.
Essay Outline: The following information is designed to help you structure your essay. This
information is for instructional purposes only. When you write your essay,
you will write it using fully formed paragraphs. You will not include sectional
headings/numbers. The essay structure provided below is general in nature
Attachments:
3107457_1_Assessment-Three-Description–1–1-.pdf

This course has been purposefully designed to incorporate a high degree of flexibility relating to various topics; therefore the choice of topic for your project is entirely your own choice. • Topic for the project outline (Assessment 1) and project proposal (Assessment 3) MUST be same. • Remember, it is your project and if you select something that holds a deep interest for you, you will find it easy to commit and you will be highly motivated to complete the work that your project outline requires (Assessment 1), and subsequently that your project proposal requires (Assessment 3). • Make sure that your topic is relevant to your current area of study or what you want to be in future. There is often temptation to pick a topic that is too broad, and might require a longer time to do it properly. • Up to five topic areas are given below under five broader areas of interest (i.e., discipline). We strongly suggest you to choose a topic from one of the broader areas. However these are not the exhaustive list and you can choose beyond this list. o Marketing: ? Marketing communications – such as why do some controversial marketing communications work whilst other fail? ? Social marketing: such as why are social networks more persuasive than traditional word-of-mouth? ? Telemarketing – such as selling goods or services to customer via telephone or surveying customer satisfaction via computer assisted telephone interview ? Branding –Impact of branding in sales or organisational development ? Factors affecting product marketing: How can countries use national culture to help them promote major exports? o Management: ? Enterprise management – such as how can an organisation (any industry) engage with and facilitate the creation and growth of new ventures, including opportunity identification and evaluation, venture capital, and/or corporate venturing; and what are the processes for managing and improving the success of the enterprise? 2 ? Strategic management – such as investigating high performing and innovative firms in turbulent environments ? Corporate governance such as how can an organisation (any industry) cope with environmental, social, and ethical influences upon their practices and processes of doing business; including environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder management and influence, and business ethics? o Human Resource Management ? Leadership– such as leadership impacts on organisational performance ? Employee engagement, wages and workforce performance ? Decision making under pressure ? Avoidance approaches to conflict ? Maintaining performance during organisational change o Accounting ? Managerial accounting- how can managers use accounting information to make better decisions? ? Technological development in accounting – such as technological development relating to information processing and its impact on accounting ? Accounting system design- The effect of accounting information and auditing on the design of organizations ? Forensic accounting- such as using forensic accounting as a tool for fraud detection o Economics and Finance ? Property market dynamics – such as impact of global financial crisis in Australian property market ? Risk and uncertainty in coal and oil markets ? Financial characteristics of large and small firms ? Economics of production systems ? Managing cash flow
Attachments:
3107180_1_BUSN19021-Some-advice-for-choosing-a-project-topic–V1—3-.pdf