AS Capstone Project Proposal Winter 2015

Project Name: Flashcard Assistant Student Names: Michael Napoleoni, Dylan DeAmaral, Anthony Pirolli, Karley

Vasile January 7, 2015

Project Description

We are proposing a Windows application that will assist New England Tech students with

studying for their exams. The main purpose of the application will be to improve your

performance in class by creating your own virtual flashcards or accessing premade course-

specific flashcards, and by quizzing yourself based on these cards. The cards will be categorized

by specific courses within subjects.

Upon opening the program, the user is given the option to login to an existing account, create a

new one, or access the program as a guest (no registration needed, but limited features). All

login attempts are recorded in a log that can be accessed by the admins.

Once logged into their account (or entered as a guest), a basic user can access our database of

already-made flashcards, create their own custom flashcards, generate a custom quiz to test

themselves, view other users profiles, and submit their flashcards for acceptance into the

database.

Administrator accounts will be able to review the submitted flashcard submissions and accept

or deny them, add / delete / edit existing flashcard, course, and subject entries in the database.

They can also elevate other users to administrator level, and access the records of all

attempted logins.

While this is certainly not the first study-assistance program created, ours will be specific to

New England Tech Students, and give users the option to select courses specific to their degree.

This allows for an experience that is perfectly tailored to each user, and will be the most

helpful.

Functionality

- Secure login for all users with anti-hacking measures

o After X failed login attempts, sends email to accounts registered email alerting

them of the failed login attempts and the IP of the intruder

- Flashcards are categorized by subject, class, etc.

- Proper entry validation for user registration, flashcard addition, etc. (profanity filter,

etc.)

- Different privileges for users and administrators

- Administrators can:

o Review flashcard submissions to database (accept, deny, etc.)

o Add, delete, and edit flashcards in database

o Access records of all attempted logins, successful or not

- Users can:

o Register for their account

o Quiz themselves

Generate custom quiz

Pick subject, number of questions

Get graded

Review questions

o Create custom flashcards

o Import / export flashcards locally

o Submit flashcards for acceptance into database (reviewed by admins)

o Save courses to their favorites list

o Search for a specific course

o Have their own profile displaying their:

Username

Score (how many submitted flashcards)

Registered classes

Development Platform

Our program will be written in C# and will utilize SQL and SQL Server in order to fetch

information from our central database. We will utilize Visual Studio for this. We made these

choices because we are all very comfortable with writing these languages, and we feel that

Visual Studio will allow us to create a clean and efficient interface that would work well with

our project.