Infosüsteem materjalide haldamiseks RAJU keskusele
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2011
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Tartu Ülikool
Abstract
Käesoleva bakalaureusetöö eesmärgiks oli luua infosüsteem, mis haldaks RAJU keskuse poolt loodud LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotite ja neile mõeldud andurite õppematerjale ning töölehti. Materjalide loomine ja jagamine peaks olema võimalikult lihtne. Infosüsteemi kasutajateks on Kooliroboti projektiga liitunud koolid. Õpetaja staatuses kasutajad saavad tutvuda uute andurite ja nende võimalustega. Samuti saavad nad koostada uusi ülesandeid, mida on võimalik mugavalt jagada oma õpilastele.
Lõputöö tekstiline osa esitab infosüsteemi analüüsi, kirjeldades erinevaid nõudeid, struktuuri ja ehitust. Viimane peatükk sisaldab süsteemi paigaldamisjuhendit. Süsteem ise on arendatud PHP keeles ja arendatud vabavaralise, väikse ja kiire CodeIgniter MVC (mudel-vaade-kontroller) raamistiku peale. Kasutajaliidese mugavamaks muutmiseks on kasutatud valdavalt JavaScripti teeki jQuery, vaid õppematerjalide üleslaadimisel tuli kasutada Uploadify pistikprogrammi, mis baseerub osaliselt Flash peal.
Süsteem on sisuliselt valmis kasutamiseks, kuid enne selle kasutuselevõttu oleks kasulik lasta mõnel disaineril luua süsteemile sobiv kujundus, mis vastaks lehe sisule ja jätaks professionaalse mulje.
Eelnevalt polnud sarnast süsteemi kasutuses ja programmerimist tuli alustada tühjalt kohalt. Samuti osutus mitmete pistikprogrammide integreerimine antud raamistikuga ootamatult keeruliseks, mistõttu tuli teha mitmeid kompromisse. Põhifunktsionaalsus on töökorras, kuid kahjuks jäi aega puudu põhjalikuks testimiseks. Seepärast soovitaks enne päriskasutajate lisamist läbi teha ka korralik testimise tsükkel.
Järgmise sammuna tuleks tutvustada infosüsteemi koolidele ja suunata neid seda kasutama. Mida rohkem on süsteemis kasutajaid, seda rohkem loovad nad uusi materjale ja töölehti, mida teised kasutajad saavad uurida. Sellega aga tõuseb loodetavasti üldine robootika tase ja populaarsus.
Koolirobot project started in 2007. Its objective was to promote interest in engineering and start according activities in Estonian schools. To support this objective, the project helped schools buy LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotic kits and start robotics courses. RAJU keskus (Robotic Exploration and Development Centre) is an informal organisation at the Institute of Computer Science at the Tartu University. In this centre students create study materials and worksheets for LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic kits. During the last three years the amount of materials has grown dramatically, but there is no convenient way to manage and share them with teachers and students. Therefore it was decided that a new document management system had to be created. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to create an information system to manage robotics study materials. The textual part of this thesis serves as an analysis for the created system. In general this document can be divided into three parts - the background, analysis and overview. The first chapter gives an overview about RAJU keskus and its current capabilities in the field of IT. It is explained why the new system is necessary and what is wrong with the current situation. The second chapter describes system requirements, future user types and their capabilities. The overall system structure is specified. The last chapter describes how the system was created. Here the reader can learn that the system was written in PHP language on server side. CodeIgniter was chosen as MVC framework for the system. For better user experience jQuery JavaScript library was used. At the end of the third chapter an installation guide is included. The system is ready for installation and examination. It is recommended that before going public with this system, a new design would be created by a professional designer.
Koolirobot project started in 2007. Its objective was to promote interest in engineering and start according activities in Estonian schools. To support this objective, the project helped schools buy LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotic kits and start robotics courses. RAJU keskus (Robotic Exploration and Development Centre) is an informal organisation at the Institute of Computer Science at the Tartu University. In this centre students create study materials and worksheets for LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic kits. During the last three years the amount of materials has grown dramatically, but there is no convenient way to manage and share them with teachers and students. Therefore it was decided that a new document management system had to be created. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to create an information system to manage robotics study materials. The textual part of this thesis serves as an analysis for the created system. In general this document can be divided into three parts - the background, analysis and overview. The first chapter gives an overview about RAJU keskus and its current capabilities in the field of IT. It is explained why the new system is necessary and what is wrong with the current situation. The second chapter describes system requirements, future user types and their capabilities. The overall system structure is specified. The last chapter describes how the system was created. Here the reader can learn that the system was written in PHP language on server side. CodeIgniter was chosen as MVC framework for the system. For better user experience jQuery JavaScript library was used. At the end of the third chapter an installation guide is included. The system is ready for installation and examination. It is recommended that before going public with this system, a new design would be created by a professional designer.