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Assignment Description

In Unit 1, you created an application service provider (ASP) project with a single page called Home.aspx. In this assignment, you will add 2 more pages and navigation. You will also create the database containing your products.

Site Framework

The first step is to create the additional pages of your e-commerce site. First, open the project that you submitted for the Unit 1 IP assignment. This project should have a page named Home.aspx, and that page should have the welcome message and description you wrote for the Unit 1 IP assignment.

Using the steps you learned in the Unit 1 Individual Submission project, add the following pages to the site:

• Catalog.aspx: This page will contain the catalog used in the shopping experience. Aside from navigation links, which you will create in the next section below, it will remain empty of content in this submission. You will create the shopping experience in Unit 3.
• ShoppingCart.aspx: This page will contain the shopping cart and a button for the user to check out. Aside from navigation links, it will remain empty of content in this submission. You will create the cart and checkout experience in Unit 4.

Navigation

To use the site, visitors will need to be able to navigate between the 3 pages that your site now contains. Follow the instructions in the Guide to Creating Navigation section of the Unit 2 Individual Submission instructional guide, which is linked below.

Products Collection

To prepare for the products database, you will need to collect some data. You will need 6–8 products to sell. For each one, you will need some information, such as name, description, and price.

These data do not need to represent real-world products, but you will need images to display alongside each product in the catalog. These images can be collected from a search engine and need not accurately show the products you intend to sell. You do not need to reference the source of your images, too. However, when considering your products, remember that a well-made project can be shown to a potential employer in an interview as an example of your work.

To complete this step, follow the Guide to Gathering Product Info section of the Unit 2 Individual Submission instructional guide, which is linked below.

Creating the Database

In Unit 3, you will create the catalog to display the images and data that you have collected in the step above. That catalog will be dynamic, meaning it will display all of the products that are currently available (meaning they’re in your Products table). A static catalog would have to be modified each time you run out of inventory or whenever a new item is added to or removed from the list of products that you sell. A dynamic catalog will automatically adjust its display to show every row of data returned from the database.

To accomplish this in Unit 3, you first need to create the database here in this assignment. Watch the tutorial “Creating the Database” (see Learning Activities), and then create your database by following the Creating the Database section of the Unit 2 Individual Submission instructional guide, which is linked below.

Instructional Guide

Below is a link to the instructional guide for the steps listed above. Follow the instructions that it contains to complete the Unit 2 Individual Submission.

Unit 2 IP Instructional Guide

Unit 2 Project Deliverables

Your deliverable for the Unit 2 Individual Project is a ZIP containing your ASP project.

 This week’s reading centered around Bitcoin Economics.  For this week’s research paper, search the Internet and explain why some organizations are accepting and other organizations are rejecting the use of Bitcoins as a standard form of currency.  Your paper needs to identify two major companies that have adopted Bitcoin technology as well as one that has refused accepting Bitcoin as a form of currency. Be sure to discuss each organization, how they adopted (or why they won’t adopt) Bitcoin, and what recommendations you have for them to continue to support Bitcoin (or why they should support Bitcoin).Your paper should meet these requirements:

• Be approximately five pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. 
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Chapter 10

Subaru’s Sales Boom Thanks to the Weaker Yen For the Japanese carmaker Subaru, a sharp fall in the value of yen against the U.S. dollar has turned a problem—the lack of U.S. production—into an unexpected sales boom. Subaru, which is a niche player in the global auto industry, has long bucked the trend among its Japanese rivals of establishing significant manufacturing facilities in the North American market. Instead, the company has chosen to concentrate most of its manufacturing in Japan in order to achieve economies of scale at its home plants, exporting its production to the United States. Subaru still makes 80 percent of its vehicles at home, compared with 21 percent for Honda. Back in 2012, this strategy was viewed as something of a liability. In those days, one U.S. dollar bought only 80 Japanese yen. The strong yen meant that Subaru cars were being priced out of the U.S. market. Japanese companies like Honda and Toyota, which had substantial production in the United States, gained business at Subaru’s expense. But from 2012 onward, with Japan mired in recession and consumer prices falling, the country’s central bank repeatedly cut interest rates in an attempt to stimulate the economy. As interest rates fell in Japan, investors moved money out of the country, selling yen and buying the U.S. dollar. They used those dollars to invest in U.S. stocks and bonds where they anticipated a greater return. As a consequence, the price of yen in terms of dollars fell. By December 2015, one dollar bought 120 yen, representing a 50 percent fall in the value of the yen against the U.S. dollar since 2012.    For Subaru, the depreciation in the value of the yen has given it a pricing advantage and driven a sales boom. Demand for Subaru cars in the United States has been so strong that the automaker has been struggling to keep up. The profits of Subaru’s parent company, Fuji Heavy Industries, have surged. In February 2015, Fuji announced that it would earn record operating profits of around ¥410 billion ($3.5 billion) for the financial year ending March 2015. Subaru’s profit margin has increased to 14.4 percent, compared with 5.6 percent for Honda, a company that is heavily dependent on U.S. production. The good times continued in 2015, with Subaru posting record profits in the quarter ending December 31, 2015. Despite its current pricing advantage, Subaru is moving to increase its U.S. production. It plans to expand its sole plant in the United States, in Indiana, by March 2017, with a goal of making 310,000 a year, up from 200,000 currently. When asked why it is doing this, Subaru’s management notes that the yen will not stay weak against the dollar forever, and it is wise to expand local production as a hedge against future increases in the value of the yen. Indeed, when the Bank of Japan decided to set a key interest rate below zero in early February 2016, the yen started to appreciate against the U.S. dollar, presumably on expectations that negative interest rates would finally help stimulate Japan’s sluggish economy. By late March 2016, the yen had appreciated against the dollar and was trading at $1=112 yen. Sources: Chang-Ran Kim, “Subaru-Maker, Fuji Heavy Lifts Profit View on Rosy US Sales, Weak Yen,” Reuters, February 3, 2015; Yoko Kubota, “Why Subaru’s Profit Is Surging,” The Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2014; Doron Levin, “Subaru Profit Soaring on Weaker Yen,” Market Watch, November 15, 2014; Y. Kubato, “Weaker Yen Drives Subaru Maker’s Profit Higher,” The Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2016. Page 294 Case

Questions

 Why do you think that historically, Subaru chose to export production from Japan, rather than set up manufacturing facilities in the United States like its Japanese rivals? 

What are the currency risks associated with Subaru’s export strategy?

 What are the potential benefits?  Why did Subaru’s sales and profits surge in 2014 and 2015? Is Subaru wise to expand its U.S. production capacity?

What other strategies could the company use to hedge against adverse changes in exchange rates? What are the pros and cons of the different hedging strategies Subaru might adopt? 

Difference between IOS and android web server

1. What are some distinctions between COPPA and CIPA? Similarities?
2. Describe an organization that might be subject to both laws, and explain why you believe they both may apply.
3. Why do you believe that these two laws define “child” differently? Is it rational to do so?
4. Lastly, feel free to add further analyses or commentary that reflects your understanding of the two related but distinct laws.

ts and EXPLAIN WHY you would add each tool.

Dear Students,
After you review all course materials attached below please answer the following question.

Assignment:

Why is project scope management so challenging in IT projects? And What suggestions do you have for preventing scope creep in projects? Go to following PMI site  and review top 5 causes of Scope Creep for more information.

https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/top-five-causes-scope-creep-6675

 Part I. Research: 1. 

Insertion sort, which is one of the other sorting techniques introduced in this chapter. Create an algorithm to implement an insertion sort. 2. Methods for sorting data files. You should produce a brief report discussing the different sorting options that can be used.

 Part II. 1.

Discuss the issues involved in sorting large data files. Explain how indexing is used to overcome this issue. 2. Explain the difference between physical order and logical order. 

The topic is up to you as long as you choose a peer-reviewed, academic research  piece.  I suggest choosing a topic that is at least in the same family  as your expected dissertation topic so that you can start viewing what  is out there.  There are no hard word counts or page requirements as  long as you cover the basic guidelines.  You must submit original work,  however,  and a paper that returns as a large percentage of copy/paste  to other sources will not be accepted.  (Safe Assign will be used to  track/monitor your submission for plagiarism. Submissions with a Safe  Assign match of more than 25% will not be accepted.) 

Please use APA formatting and include the following information:

• Introduction/Background:  Provide  context for the research article.  What led the author(s) to write the  piece? What key concepts were explored? Were there weaknesses in prior  research that led the author to the current hypothesis or research  question?
• Methodology:  Describe  how the data was gathered and analyzed.  What research questions or  hypotheses were the researcher trying to explore? What statistical  analysis was used?
• Study Findings and Results:  What were the major findings from the study? Were there any limitations?
• Conclusions:  Evaluate  the article in terms of significance, research methods, readability and  the implications of the results.  Does the piece lead into further  study? Are there different methods you would have chosen based on what  you read? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the article in terms  of statistical analysis and application? (This is where a large part of  the rubric is covered.) 
• References   

Assignment Description

Some of the portions of the project to develop a GUI Java Application for ordering “Famous Favorite Subs” will be completed each week, so you will develop something similar to the following prototype representation of the functionality you should support by the final assignment as a single GUI screen.

For this assignment, you are responsible for developing a list of requirements by writing a narrative about what they should be, based on your own experience with ordering online. Next, represent the design for these requirements in the following diagrams:

• Use case
• Class diagram(s) for the major actors
• Activity diagram(s)
• Sequence diagram(s)

Deliverable

• Create a Design Document skeleton to update each week.
• The title page for Design Document should have the following information:
  • Course Number
  • Course Section
  • Course Name
  • Project Name (Unit 1 IP)
  • Student Name
  • Date
• Add the following section header: UML Model for Project.
• Add your narrative to define the system.
• Add in your 4 types of diagrams as outlined above
• Name the document yourname_ITSD424_IP1.doc.