Kylie's Journal

the end

2006-10-07T14:19:38Z

hello all,

Hope everyones projects are going well. I know that i am very busy with many assessments due. I am happy that i have my program done through just been working on the test plan. I'm not really sure what is expected but i will have it done on time. I didnt realise how many options needed to be tested in the test plan so i realise this might actually take more time then i predicted as it is a bit of a slow and tedious task but i guess its all art of the project making.

So i hope everyone is doing ok with theres and are moving forward as we reach the last week of uni.

Thanks to everyone who posted notes about the test plan it has helped me understand a little what is expected and has given me some guidance.

Good Luck Everyone!!

Kylie

This week...

2006-09-29T06:21:31Z

Hello all,

i hope alll your coding is going well. I spent the week working on my code and am very happy as the code i have written works bug free at the moment. I really hated all the bugs i would get. I have been using an IF, THEN statement in order to code my questions in, i'm not sure if its the most effective way to achieve my purpose but it does work. Below is how i have been coding the questions section:

If User_Selection = 27 Then
If OptA_381.Value = True Then
OptA_381.Value = False
End If
If OptB_381.Value = True Then
OptB_381.Value = False
End If
If OptC_381.Value = True Then
Correct = Correct + 1
OptC_381.Value = False
End If
If OptD_381.Value = True Then
OptD_381.Value = False
End If
txt_9_10_questions_381 = Questions(User_Selection)
OptA_381.Caption = OptA(User_Selection)
OptB_381.Caption = OptB(User_Selection)
OptC_381.Caption = OptC(User_Selection)
OptD_381.Caption = OptD(User_Selection)
End If

Its quite a long way to get it done but i found it the easiest way, since i'm not the best at coding VBA. It works so that it reads the users selected response then it will add one to the correct count if the correct response was selected, so that at the end of the quiz the user will know how many they got correct.

Good luck coding and test planning everyone!

Kylie

My Project

2006-09-23T03:30:04Z

Hello all,

Hope you have all had a good and productive week. Since i have created all the user forms that i will be using for my project, i spent the week learning about and creating my arrays so the program will work. I have a question form in which i am using a textbox for the questions to appear in. So i have been getting the questions to appear in the textbox. I am using seven arrays to get this working:

Dim Questions(29) As String
Dim OptA(29) As String
Dim OptB(29) As String
Dim OptC(29) As String
Dim OptD(29) As String
Dim User_Selection As Integer
Dim Correct_Answer As Integer

Basically i have an array for the questions, one array each for each multiple choice answer, an array for the answer the user or student has choosen, and an array for the correct answer. I am hardcoding in my questions so i am now busy learning about loading an a file with the questions in it into my array otherwise it will be placed within the array itself if i cant get it to work.

So any suggestions on how i could get my program to run better would be nice, otherwise have a good week off uni and use your time productively.

Good luck coding!
Kylie

So yeah that is what i been busy creating so my questions in my quiz will work correctly.

VBA stuff

2006-09-15T02:35:58Z

Hello all,

I'd like to firstly say that Alli's post was really useful for me as i am doing arrays, and so was Zeina's as i had the exact same problem as Zeina so it helped me so much.

During this week i have been concertrating on writing the code. I have learnt a few lessons while i was coding, firstly that it is important to have the names of things typed correctly within the VBA coding area else you will be like me and have to keep debugging it because of simple spelling errors. So i learnt that check it before you run it so you wont have to debug it.

Secondly i learnt that it is a good idea to type the names of things you are placing in the code in all lower case as VBA will change the needed sections to uppercase for you, so i have been using it as a way to check that what i have typed in was correct. If it doesnot change as it should have, i then know that i have made a mistake somewhere.

Other than that, i found this really good resource on the internet that i am using to help me code as i need it. So i hope it is of some use to others as well:

http://www.cs.vu.nl/obp/education/project-obp/VBA-intro.pdf

Hope you all have started the coding and have a really good week!

Kylie

Goto

2006-09-10T01:41:43Z

Hello all,

So during the week i have been doing some coding for the program. I came across a statement called the 'GoTo Statement'. With some research i found that it transfers the program execution to a new instruction. I think that it means that what will happen is that you can type in your statement then send it through a Goto statement to a different section of the program or code. I have an example i found in a textbook that explains it clearer:

Sub GoToDemo()
UserName = inputbox("Enter Your Name")
If UserName <> "Howard" Then GoTo WrongName
MsgBox("Welcome Howard...")
Exit Sub
WrongName:
MsgBox"Sorry. Only Howard can run this."
End Sub

So yeah i think the code could be useful to a variety of problems and might just help somefix with one of theres. Hope it helps.

Have a good week!

Kylie

Builing the Program

2006-09-03T03:06:56Z

Hello all,

So YAY i finished the assignments due in the week. So its onto the main part of assignment that is the building and testing of the program. So i have been working on my home page. I was planning to add a screen shot of it here but i cannot figure out how to add it so if you know can u please let me know.

A few things i came across whiole making my homepage:

1) When i designed it i was trying to pick colours that would be bright and user-friendly so i hope they are ok colours to use. I found it actually hard to pick colours that suited the purpose of the program. I know u cannot see the colours but u should be able to in my next entry.

2) I also was wondering if radio buttons were the best to use on the home page. The point of my radio buttons is for the user to select whether they are a teacher of student. I seemed a lot more user friendly then asking them to type it in especially when you would then have to program the program to read the answer and try and interpret it. So i was curious if any of the other tools in VBA will allow me to restrict what the selected other than radio buttons. I know that checkboxes won't do what i want but i was thinking about framing it.

So basically they were my thoughts for the week.

Have a good week everyone!

Kylie

Structure Charts

2006-08-25T07:55:51Z

hello all,

During the week i've been concertrating of getting the next task complete. I found that the SRS is actually quite hard to write and keep within the word limit set.

Since i didn't know much about structure charts i thought it would be a good post for the week. So i did some research about them and found the following links that helped me in understanding them:

http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~pedwards/teaching/CS3007/design/schart_examples.html

http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~pedwards/teaching/CS3007/design/scharts.html

http://cbct.blackburn.ac.uk/ICT/BTEC/national%20cert%20it/unit%206/notes/structure%20charts%20example%202.pdf

http://faculty.sxu.edu/~rogers/sys/structure_chart.html

http://www.hait.ac.il/staff/leonidM/information-systems/ch63.html

http://www.excelsoftware.com/structuremodel.html

The links are either explainations about structure charts which show you the tools you use to design one, or they are examples that i thought were useful.

So hope you have a look and it helps in some way.

Have a good week.

Kylie

Detailed Design

2006-08-20T10:17:37Z

Hello all,

Since we have a part of our project due soon, i have been spending my time looking at what to write in it and how to write it correctly.

I found that the IEEE that was part of the last lecture we had, was extremely useful in writing the requirements statement as it helped me understand what i needed to write in it so that it was completed correctly. If you have not read any of it yet, i advise you do before writing the requirements statement. I suggest you read from pages 9 - 16. When i was researching on the internet more about the requirement specification it was coming up with the same things as what was in the document with the same headings and everything, so that clarified for me that, that was all we needed to write in the statement.

The other part to the project was the detailed design. From what i found about a detailed design it is "a general description of the software service, its functionality and relevant details describing the overall system and its design" (http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/268087-0-0-225-121.html). If that is all that a detailed design is, then i'll be happy to do that but I'm not sure if that it what it actually is or not so if someone could clarify that it would be very helpful. Any information on writing them would also be greatly appreciated.

Enjoy your week!

Kylie

Creation

2006-08-13T11:18:28Z

Hello all,

During the week I have been creating my user forms just so i know what i want them to look like as well as so I have a visual aid when it comes to writing the algorithms and trying to link them all together.

As I was creating them, I was trying to do some research into colours and layouts that are appealing to the users. This i was hoping would help me decide on how to set it all out and the colours to use. However my research was unsuccessful as I was unable to find any good website that would give me some helpful direction. Most websites were stating that you will never have a colour scheme and a layout which all users will be happy with, otherwise they would talk about the colour scheme and layout having to meet design purpose. So i guess that after all of this, the user forms should be based around the topic my project is being based on. I hope that it will satisfy the users and be appropriate.

If anyone has any good colour scheme and layout webpages it would be very useful in creating the user forms.

Have a good week

Kylie

Using VBA

2006-08-06T06:10:51Z

Hello all,

So now that the week is over and we have done the first part of the assessment, i thought it would be a good time to look into finding useful resources as to how to actually use VBA so that we can all build what we like. Since my knowledge is rather basic i thought the best thing to look for was VBA tutorials that give examples and tutorials to help us all out. So below are some links that i hope will help us all get started on the project:

http://www.anthony-vba.kefra.com/index_011.htm

http://www.mindspring.com/~tflynn/excelvba.html

So good luck all!

Cya
Kylie

wizards/MultiPage

2006-07-30T06:47:26Z

hello all,

During the week i've been spending my time playing around with VBA hoping i could findsomething interesting to use in the project as well as a starting point for me to use. As i did this i found a function called 'MultiPage', which when i first looked at it had no idea at all what it did so i researched into that a bit. I found that using the 'MultiPage' function was a way in which you could create a wizard for VBA that could be used to put information into excel if you desired.

I found this one website which i thought was good as explaining how to create the wizard and what it actually does. The website also has a range of other tutorials that looked good in ot her aspects of VBA.

http://theopensourcery.com/ostutor.htm#vba

The Wizard tutorials begins on 'VBA tutorial 14'. So i hope you all find this useful in some way. You may need to scroll down the page a fair way before you find those tutorials.

Have fun!

Cya
Kylie