Glossary
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- Active Status
- In the Project Atlantis system, an administrator is considered "active" if he or she is currently employed by the University of Atlantis.
A student is considered active if he or she is currently enrolled in the University of Atlantis.
- Administrator
- A user with priviledged access to the Project Atlantis system. This includes instructors and administrative staff at the University of Atlantis.
- Attribute
- A quality or characteristic of a thing.
- Button
- A screen feature; if clicked with a mouse it enables a certain function
of the system.
- C++
- A programming language.
- CGI
- "Computer Gateway Interface". This is a method of allowing outside
parties to access a local database. This has been mostly superceded
by the Java programming language.
- Co-requisite
- A course that must be taken concurrently
or prior to another.
- Concurrent
- Occuring simultaneously.
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- Database
- A computer file that is capable of storing and quickly retrieving
large amounts of data.
- Data Structure
- A conceptual container that holds related data in a computer system.
- DFD
- Data Flow Diagram - used to show how data is exchanged in a system.
- Drop-down Menu
- A menu in a graphical user interface, whose title is normally visible
but whose contents are revealed only when the user activates it, normally
by pressing the mouse button while the pointer is over the title or
an arrow to the right of the title.
- Entity
- Something that exists as a particular and discrete unit.
- ERD
- Entity Relationship Diagram.
- Expected Input
- Data that a user enters which is considered valid by the system.
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- Field
- A place in a screen where data is entered or chosen by the user.
- Functionality
- Set of capabilities of the system which provide some service to
the user.
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- Graphical User Interface
- A display used to allow humans to interact with computers. The "windows"
in Microsoft Windows are graphical user intrefaces.
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface.
- HTML
- "Hypertext Markup Language". This is the scripting language with which web pages are built.
- Inactive Status
- In the Project Atlantis system, an administrator is considered "inactive" if he or she is no longer employed at the University of Atlantis.
A student is considered inactive if he or she is no longer enrolled in the University of Atlantis.
- Interface
- A point at which different groups interact; in this context, a method for human-computer interaction.
- Input
- Data provided by the user.
- Internet
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- A global collection of inter-connected computers which would form a sort of "net" if you could see the connections between them, hence the name.
- Instructor
- Synonymous with administrator; an instructor may have different tasks from an administrator, but has the same type of access to the system.
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- Login
- 1) The procedure of gaining access to a secure system by means of entering a
valid user name and password. 2) The user name.
- Message Box
- A box which is displayed on the screen giving a message and
indicating two or three possible user responses.
- Modify
- Alter the content of a record.
- Object
- In programming, an object is a discrete unit of data and operations on
that data.
- Overload (a course)
- If a student wishes to register in a course that is full, an administrator may
grant the student access, thus "overloading" the course.
- Override (a pre or co-requisite)
- If a course has pre or co-requisites that a student has not completed, he may
appeal to the instructor to override them.
- Pre-requisite
- A course that must be completed prior to taking certain other courses.
- Programming Language
- A means by which computer programmers can control their computers.
- Prototype
- An early model
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- Record
- A discrete piece of data in the system, such as a user's personal information.
- Screen
- Whatever is currently visible to the user on the computer screen.
- Schedule
- A plan for performing work in the time allotted.
- Student
- A user who can only access and/or modify her own records within
the Project Atlantis Registration System.
- System
- Used to refer to the Project Atlantis Registration System.
- Text Field
- A place on the screen where the user provides input by typing.
- Unexpected Input
- Data that a user has entered which, because it is not considered apporopriate by the system, has caused an error to result.
- Visual Basic
- A programming language developed by Microsoft.
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