Paper Boy
Ron Poet
Newsagents use a highly sophisticated computer system to make sure the papers get delivered each day. This project will attempt to produce a commercially realistic paper delivery package. It will be developed using Visual C++. It will be similar to many commercial programs in that it has a GUI front end, a relational database back end, and some application logic gluing the bits together. The software engineering will have the following features:

• Several different dialogs, built with the Visual C++ dialog design tools.
• Several different relational tables, accessed from the program via the ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) interface and the DAO (Database Access Object) classes.
• The document - view architecture will be used to provide the intermediate code. The Visual C++ browser and interactive debugger will be used to write the code.

From the paperboy's perspective, each morning he gets a list of all the houses on his run, together with the papers that he must deliver. He also gets a list of totals so that he can just collect the required totals of each of the various papers and then make up his run.

The newsagent, on the other hand, will be able to enter new orders for papers, record complaints and temporary changes, and be able to calculate the paper boy's pay, based on the going rate, minus deductions based on the mistakes. The newsagent will also be able to take orders for a large range of periodicals, and calculate daily totals for all the different publications.

Training will be provided in Visual C++ and related technologies.

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