Application Thoughts #1
A series of three ideas rattling around in my brain
Simple Web Application Design for Non-Techies
The lecturer for my Ecology classes brought in a notebook, in which sutdents from multiple classes were to sign up for Work Days on one of serveral Restoration Projects, for extra credit. Each Work Day has space for 20 students, there’s a sheet of paper giving directions to the location, and a form for entering contact info.
And I wonder, is there a toolset which would allow him to build this sign up notebook as a web application?? The most notable advantage would be the paper conservation, which he lamented a couple times.
For this, he needs to design the form, assign constraints to the fields, assign actions to the fields (for example, the app could reference a student database with all the contact info), save the data to a database, perhaps interact with a grading application, send out reminders about the upcoming work day…
A days work for a web developer? Perhaps there is are classes of applications, like this one, which are primed for incorporation in a Wizard like environment? I wonder if application framework (from MS, or BEA, or PeopleSoft) supports this sort of thing?