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George Harrison · Sep 27th, 2006, 10:00 PM

Hello. I'm not for sure if this is the correct place to post this but I'm guessing that I'll be using either C# or Java to do this project of mine.

I'm taking a high school class rightnow that teaches about business ethics. I'm in the web page division where I help manage the school's site. Since I'm not the manager of the team I was chosen to do bland work because apparently I lack creativity, for example I do not believe that the site should be covered in flash but whatever. Well I haven't done much in the past few weeks and today I am presented with a new assignment, let me explain. Students are getting together a student store and the web dev team has to code a page for it, the page has almost been completed actually. My teacher wants people to be able to click an image link that says "Order yearbooks here" for them to order yearbooks with. Today he tells me to "code a database" and then goes back to his desk. I'm pretty confused and I have until Friday to have something decent up and running.

I have heard from several that Java or C# would be the language to use for integrating web sites and compiled lanuages together. My first question would be: is my teacher describing a database? I'm not exactly for sure of what he wants specifically, so I'm out of luck there. Secondly, should I use .NET stuff like C# and would the user have to have .NET 2.0 to display the app? I was cruising visual studio 2K5 and I noticed that there was an option to create a database but first you must set up your own server, which I attempted to do but failed upon opening the connection and it wouldn't let me write or drag/drop a gui. Thirdly, is this an incredibly daunting task or a simple one? I've heard people say that programmers working for a company get paid incredibly if they code a database, so it's probably hard.

Overall I'm confused on what to do specifically. It sounds like he wants an application that will run in a browser like IE/Firefox and ask questions like how many yearbooks do you want, etc. and then will synch to a database server set up like mysql or something that will keep an overall record of what people want. I'm just lost on where to start. I need the most efficient and quick way to do this, I don't care about portability at this point with .NET 2.0 - I just need to get this in to get a good grade, changes can be made later. Thanks.

Sep 27th, 2006, 10:00 PM	#1
George Harrison Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pepperland Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	school website database project Hello. I'm not for sure if this is the correct place to post this but I'm guessing that I'll be using either C# or Java to do this project of mine. I'm taking a high school class rightnow that teaches about business ethics. I'm in the web page division where I help manage the school's site. Since I'm not the manager of the team I was chosen to do bland work because apparently I lack creativity, for example I do not believe that the site should be covered in flash but whatever. Well I haven't done much in the past few weeks and today I am presented with a new assignment, let me explain. Students are getting together a student store and the web dev team has to code a page for it, the page has almost been completed actually. My teacher wants people to be able to click an image link that says "Order yearbooks here" for them to order yearbooks with. Today he tells me to "code a database" and then goes back to his desk. I'm pretty confused and I have until Friday to have something decent up and running. I have heard from several that Java or C# would be the language to use for integrating web sites and compiled lanuages together. My first question would be: is my teacher describing a database? I'm not exactly for sure of what he wants specifically, so I'm out of luck there. Secondly, should I use .NET stuff like C# and would the user have to have .NET 2.0 to display the app? I was cruising visual studio 2K5 and I noticed that there was an option to create a database but first you must set up your own server, which I attempted to do but failed upon opening the connection and it wouldn't let me write or drag/drop a gui. Thirdly, is this an incredibly daunting task or a simple one? I've heard people say that programmers working for a company get paid incredibly if they code a database, so it's probably hard. Overall I'm confused on what to do specifically. It sounds like he wants an application that will run in a browser like IE/Firefox and ask questions like how many yearbooks do you want, etc. and then will synch to a database server set up like mysql or something that will keep an overall record of what people want. I'm just lost on where to start. I need the most efficient and quick way to do this, I don't care about portability at this point with .NET 2.0 - I just need to get this in to get a good grade, changes can be made later. Thanks.