Developing a graphical user interface in programming is paramount to being successful in the business industry. This project incorporates GUI techniques with other tools that you have learned about in this class.
Here is your assignment: You work for a flooring company. They have asked you to be a part of their team because they need a computer programmer, analyst, and designer to aid them in tracking customer orders. Your skills will be needed in creating a GUI program that calculates the flooring cost and stores the order in the database.
The project has three components: an analysis and design document, the project code, and a user manual. The analysis and design document is due Week 4. The code and user manual are due in Week 7. It is suggested that you begin working on the code in Week 5, which should give you ample time to complete the project. You will find that the lectures and lab assignments will prepare you for the Course Project.
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Your application must include at least three tabs. The user will choose wood flooring or carpet, enter the length and width of the floor, as well as the customer name and address. The application will compute the area of the floor and the cost of the flooring considering that wood floor is $20 per square foot and carpet is $10 per square foot. A summary should be displayed, either in a tab or another window, listing the customer name and address, floor selection, area, and cost. This information should also be stored in the MySQL database table. The program should validate that all information is entered and that the length and width are numeric values. Any numeric or currency values must be formatted appropriately when output. Recommendations for the components used for input are
• radio buttons—flooring type (wood or carpet);
• text fields—customer name, customer address, floor length, and floor width; and
• buttons—calculate area, calculate cost, submit order, display order summary, display order list.
The MySQL database table is called flooring and has the following description.
Field Type
CustomerName varchar(30)
CustomerAddress varchar(50)
FlooringType varchar(10)
FloorArea double
FloorCost double
In addition to entering new customer orders, your application should list all customer orders stored in the database. These will be viewed as a list, in a text area, and will not be updated by the user.

The following grading rubric will be used for the code portion of the project.
Flooring Application Points Description
Standard header included 2 Must contain program name, student name, and description of the program
Program compiles 2 Program does not have any error
Program executes 2 Program runs without any error
Includes at least 3 tabs 10 Three or more tabs are used
Includes components for all required inputs 35 Components for customer name, address, floor type, length, width, area and cost with buttons to calculate area, calculate cost, display order summary, and display order list are included
Area calculation 4 Area is calculated correctly
Cost calculation 5 Cost is calculated correctly
Included data validation 10 If no values or non-numeric values are entered, the proper error message should display.
Correct data is stored in the database table 10 When values are entered, the data is stored correctly in the database table.
Customer orders are displayed in a list 10 All records saved to the database are displayed in a list with appropriate formatting.
Correct output is displayed 10 When values are entered, the order summary is shown with appropriate formatting.
Total 100