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Object Oriented & Event Driven Programming

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Assignments must be submitted by the due date. The only circumstance in which assignments can be submitted late is if an extenuating circumstances form is submitted at the same time. In these circumstances work may be submitted up to 2 weeks late only. If the extenuating circumstances are upheld, the assignment will be graded;

Learning Outcomes

1) Develop a problem-based strategy for creating and applying programmed solutions using an object-oriented paradigm.

2) Use an object-oriented development environment in the development, testing and debugging of an object-oriented application.

3) Understand object and event-driven approaches to software development.

Courier Management System Motivation Statement

The Professional Couriers is one of the famous domestic and international courier and cargo operators in the Sultanate of Oman. They are one of the pioneers in courier service with capabilities of handling thousands of articles, documents including both domestic and international everyday for every location for both inbound and outbound. They have different operations across the country by offering various services for the customers.

All the customers can avail the services, once they finish a one-time registration with a valid ID card number. Every customer will be provided with a unique shipment after each boSik. The system is being used for day to day activities such as booking a tourist, out return, noiSt. maintain destination details and company details, pi-Ocess data offirms and many other things.

Now they are planning to upgrade the system to help them manage their business more efficiently. For this reason, they want to offer competitive fares so that regular customers and bulk business firms will get more benefits in terms of rate and the courier company itself will get more business.

In the main form, the user can register as a guest or a regular customer. The guest has the right to view only the enquiry part. The regular customer should provide complete details such as name, phone number, email, address, faculty or department etc. The system should also provide a search seaWh-fart either by using cutomer ID or shipment number.

GUI Description

The Courier Management System needs at least the following forms in addition to the main form:

1. Booking
2. Delivery
3. Destination details
4. Search
5. Payment

The Courier Management System should contain at least 5 classes and must create sub classes to facilitate the work.