In Shafer’s section of MIS2502 I completed the LinkedInLearning video “Learning SQL Programming” with Scott Simpson and answered all of the related exam questions correctly.
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“Learning SQL Programming” with Scott Simpson
- Include the goals, results, project URL (if applicable), and what you learned in a brief paragraph.
- Once approved, the description is automatically displayed in a post on your e-portfolio.
Web Application Programming Interface (API)
The goal of this class project was to research a cheap or free Web Application program Interface (API) and build a functional web application that demonstrates the use of the API. I found an Advice API endpoint that was free and decided to develop a simple web application that uses the $.getJSON() method to retrieve Advice formatted in JSON for the user after they enter their birthday on the web page. The user can either enter their date of birth manually or select it from the calendar by using the arrows in the date input box. In this project I refreshed my memory on the basics of html like
tags , <p> </p>tags <h1> </h1> tags, and forms. I also utilized jQuery methods like .html(), .next() , .val() and conditional if statements to populate error messages in the span tag next to my input date box.
My web application is a very fun and interactive way to get customers to voluntarily give out their birthday information. Most humans are on a quest for daily advice. Thus, they will be curious to know about the advice the web app has for them. Online retailers can then draw meaningful insights from the birthday data to know how to better market their merchandise to the different age demographics they may have.
I am optimistic that this web application will be extremely beneficial for online clothing websites like H&M and Old Navy. My app can help them learn more about the various age demographics they have in their customer pool to know what their target market is. Furthermore, since most online websites use cookies to store small amounts of data, the website can use cookies to store each customer’s data after the customer accepts cookies for the website. This will enable online stores to save each customers date of birth and use it later for promotional purposes as well. For instance, the data can be used to send out individual promotional discount codes as a birthday gift to their customers. This will lead to an increase in online traffic to their websites throughout the year especially in peak months like August and September that happen to have the highest births.
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10 Week Summer Internship in CyberSecurity
The Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) team in the NSA’s Research Directorate, is joining their counterparts in the Capabilities and Operations Directorates to provide a select number of undergraduate students an exciting 10-week summer internship.
The internship will take place at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) in the Research Park building complex adjacent to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
The Future Computing Summer Internship (FCSI) program was established in 2022 with the goal to expose participants to High Performance Computing (HPC), a field critical to national security, discovery, and technological innovation.
FCSI is intended for students who would have completed their junior year by Spring 2025 (expect to graduate in Spring 2026 or after), and that are pursuing degrees in math, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or STEM related fields with strong mathematical and computer programming foundations and technical skills relevant to HPC.
Please note: Only US citizens are eligible to apply.
MIS2402 PRO Points Project
The PRO Points Project allow me to use programming to learn about the big data sets. I use programming to solve some questions from this project. In this project I build a simple webpage to post some information and a button with some functions. I studyed “Drug overdose death rates, by drug type, sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin: United States” JSON data set, and find gender has big influence on the death rate.
From this project, I fully understand the convinience of the programming when we are trying to perform some tasks from a big data set. I also learn what should I include if I want to make a webpage.
MIS 2402 PRO Points Project
As a part of my MIS2402 coursework, I took on an optional project to earn MIS Professional Achievement points. The goal was to delve into web APIs and JSON data, learning to apply programming skills. My task involved creating a web page with a button that, when clicked, fetched data from a JSON source.
My Hypothesis stated that “Famous landmarks in New York City, with historical or iconic significance, draw in a considerable number of tourists. They also play a vital role in shaping borough cultures, influencing local development, and contributing significantly to the city’s tourism-driven economy.” The data that was fetched from the API demonstrates the number of landmarks in different areas of New York City and the total number of Individual Landmarks. Showing how this information supports the hypothesis.
API Semester Project
With this API project, I have learned to use Web APIs and perform various tasks with them. I also learned how to combine APIs through programming and make them tell a story. I was able to to tell a story about an OpenData NYC API by using Image Charts API so it can perform a live chart for the data.
The API’s used are Image Charts API and NYC OpenData API, where NYC OpenData provides the data to be used in the charts. The Image Charts API was chosen to make a live chart out of the OpenData API which has the data about New York Inspections. The OpenData API provides data on how many violations cities in New York have had and it features the inspections of the last and current calender year. Also, the data on inspections are performed by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. The bar and pie chart show the number of violations issued in some of the cities of New York. The bar chart shows 8 cities with the number of violations and the pie chart highlights the cities with the highest violation percentages.
github url: https://github.com/s-sivri/API-Semester-Project
class server url: http://misdemo.temple.edu/tun36588/api_bar_pie_chart/
MIS 2402: Web Application Development – PRO Points Project
- Include the goals, results, project URL (if applicable), and what you learned in a brief paragraph.
- Conducted research on an API, developed a working proof of concept, and provided a recommendation as to how the API could be used in an application for business or entertainment purposes. This was also a great opportunity to further explore some of the concepts of programming.
- Once approved, the description is automatically displayed in a post on your e-portfolio.
- Recommendation
- Going forward with the current situation in the world, such a structure or even a modified version of this could be used by governments or other institutions to keep track of the COVID numbers in the world/country/state. This could also be used by governments to raise awareness towards medical institutions in order to have them prepare for unexpected situations with medical provisions such as beds, treatment facilities, etc. In addition, if implemented right, this could be used as a way to identify hot spot areas and take measures in containing/controlling those areas instead of going into country-wide lockdowns and resulting in unhealthy economies.
New Digital Systems course teaches all business students how to code
Last year, the MIS department began previewing several redesigned courses, and this fall the new curriculum has been officially rolled out in full. The introductory course, Digital Systems, teaches basic programming skills to all business students, regardless of major. It’s a new approach that will give Fox students a competitive edge after graduation.
“There’s been a push that MBAs should know how to code, and we’re bringing that thinking to our undergradates,” says David Schuff, Professor and Chair of the Department of Management Information Systems. “Some other business school programs start with basic computer literacy, but we’re asking, ‘What’s the next generation of tools and skills?’”
Digital Systems provides an overview of how businesses use technology in today’s economy. The first two-thirds of the course help students get a grasp of the big ideas in an active learning environment. Through hands-on, in-class assignments, students practice applying the concepts they’re learning, including programming.
“It represents a shift from a project-management focus to a product-management focus,” says Schuff.
During the final third of the course, students learn to code using JavaScript to build a digital product of their own. Their final project challenges students to make a tool that can rank potential investors in a fictional firm in terms of various functions like income, assets, and debt. “Their job is to write those functions,” says Steven Sclarow, Assistant Professor of MIS and the course coordinator.
“In the past, coding assignments taught concepts without putting the business perspective on it,” says Sclarow. “Our approach uses an overarching narrative throughout the course to help students see how it relates to them and digital product management,” he says.
The prospect can be daunting for some students, especially outside MIS, but completing the project gives them not only important new skills, but also confidence. And for MIS students, this introduction prepares them expertly for what’s to come: more advanced courses on API-based software development, user experience, and cybersecurity.
“The new Digital Systems course is the latest example of how Temple’s MIS department prepares students for the workforce,” says Bruce Fadem, chair of the IT Advisory Board and retired VP and CIO of Wyeth.
“All business students are going to encounter digital systems, no matter what job they have,” says Sclarow. And Schuff emphasizes this point: “If you’re in accounting or finance, you might have a need to do process automation. In marketing, you might need to manipulate data to do analyses. Programming is becoming an essential tool to do these things yourself.”
MIS 2402 Pro Points Project
For this project, I have researched and implemented a free API that provides developers with real time stock data for a specific company they would like to obtain information about.
The API that I’ve researched can be located at ‘https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/’. For this specific task, I have decided to use the “Quote Endpoint” API. With this API, it provides real time stock information to the user that returns as JSON output. For example, one can make a blog or website about a specific stock trading company or about financial news and implement this API to provide users who are reading the blog/website with up to date information on how the stock is performing right on the website itself without having to going off the website. Additionally, this API can be used to pull any publicly traded company’s stock information (not just Microsoft). Therefore, it can be tailored to meet anyone’s needs when developing their web application. Furthermore, this API is very flexible as it can be used with multiple programming languages and easily be implemented. All in all, this free simple API can provide developers an opportunity to put useful and effective data on their website
Link to my Proof-of-Concept can be found here: http://misdemo.temple.edu/tug97942/pro%20points%20project/
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