EN1320: Module 2 Lab 2.1 Capturing the Reader’s Interest Select and rewrite any one introduction and one conclusion to make them engaging and inspiring. For the introduction:  Is the opening statement interesting?  Does it use an opening technique suggested in the textbook?  Does it include a thesis—a statement that tells the central idea of the essay? For the conclusion:  Does it restate the thesis or indicate the essay’s central idea?  Does it summarize support for the thesis or central idea?  Does it leave the reader with something to ponder or act upon? Introduction 1: Whether student-athletes should be monetarily compensated has long been debated. On one side, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and its supporters stand by NCAA rules, regulations, and bylaws as their claim for why student-athletes should not be paid. On the other side, critics stand by business economics as well as other NCAA rules that regulate the amount of money a student-athlete can earn in the academic year. Although critics claim that the NCAA limits the amount of money a student-athlete can earn in a year, the NCAA should continue to not allow a pay-to-play standard. History has proven that pay-to play programs would be unmanageable, scholarships are compensation enough, and athletic departments would have to become separate entities from the universities. Introduction 2: There is no question that society believes in the familiar saying, “If you do the crime, then you have to do the time.” The prison system is not meant to be a fun or happy place for convicted criminals to serve their time. Its main purpose is to punish anyone who breaks the law in order to decrease the crime rate. Prison is not the safest and most humane place to be. Prisons are dirty, chaotic, dangerous, and depressing, and it is not a life that is worth living. The conditions in the prison systems need to be improved to have positive outcomes such as reducing recidivism and benefiting society financially. Conclusion 1: All of these points being said, euthanasia should never be used against a patient’s will. If euthanasia is ever to be completely legal in our states, we need to impose a very strict and concise set of guidelines. Euthanasia could benefit many citizens with no hope of a full recovery. Suffering cancer patients could have a dignified alternative to their lives getting more unbearable by the day, with countless tests, medications, procedures, and prodding by dozens of doctors and nurses. Conclusion 2: In conclusion we cannot allow NASA to be dissolved or underfunded due to the importance of the future of space exploration and travel and the technology produced by NASA that saves lives and benefits humanity. We need Washington and NASA to come up with a 10-year plan and a funding system to allow NASA to do the work that it needs to do unhindered. Without a 10-year plan NASA will continue to be plagued by the rapidly changing political sc ...

1. EN1320: Module 2
Lab 2.1
Capturing the Reader’s Interest
Select and rewrite any one introduction and one conclusion to
make them engaging and inspiring.
For the introduction:
—a statement that tells the central
idea of the essay?
For the conclusion:
upport for the thesis or central idea?
upon?
Introduction 1:
Whether student-athletes should be monetarily compensated has
long been debated. On one side, the National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) and its supporters stand by NCAA rules,
regulations, and bylaws as their claim for why student-athletes
should not be paid. On the other side, critics stand by business
economics as well as other NCAA rules that regulate the amount
of money a student-athlete can earn in the academic year.
Although critics claim that the NCAA limits the amount of
money a student-athlete can earn in a year, the NCAA should
continue to not allow a pay-to-play standard. History has proven
that pay-to play programs would be unmanageable, scholarships
are compensation enough, and athletic departments would have

2. to become separate entities from the universities.
Introduction 2:
There is no question that society believes in the familiar saying,
“If you do the crime, then you have to do the time.” The prison
system is not meant to be a fun or happy place for convicted
criminals to serve their time. Its main purpose is to punish
anyone who breaks the law in order to decrease the crime rate.
Prison is not the safest and most humane place to be. Prisons
are dirty, chaotic, dangerous, and depressing, and it is not a life
that is worth living. The conditions in the prison systems need
to be improved to have positive outcomes such as reducing
recidivism and benefiting society financially.
Conclusion 1:
All of these points being said, euthanasia should never be used
against a patient’s will. If euthanasia is ever to be completely
legal in our states, we need to impose a very strict and concise
set of guidelines. Euthanasia could benefit many citizens with
no hope of a full recovery. Suffering cancer patients could have
a dignified alternative to their lives getting more unbearable by
the day, with countless tests, medications, procedures, and
prodding by dozens of doctors and nurses.
Conclusion 2:
In conclusion we cannot allow NASA to be dissolved or
underfunded due to the importance of the future of space
exploration and travel and the technology produced by NASA
that saves lives and benefits humanity. We need Washington
and NASA to come up with a 10-year plan and a funding system
to allow NASA to do the work that it needs to do unhindered.

3. Without a 10-year plan NASA will continue to be plagued by
the rapidly changing political scene, and progress will be slow
going at best. We also need to keep NASA focused and funded
to allow for more new life-saving technologies to be produced
through these space travel and exploration programs. At the
very least we need to keep the private sector companies funded
so that we do not enter a “space-gap” and have to pay Russia
obscene amounts of money to get our astronauts to the
international space station. The best case scenario would be to
give NASA a 10-year plan and funding system, as well as
continue to fund private sector companies to make space
exploration a much more obtainable and cost-effective notion.
1
foreach (DataRow dataRow in dataTable.Rows)
{
//Checks the "if" condition to see if the dataRow is
on the last record. If true, the
//".TrimEnd('r')" method removes the blankline that
is sent before the
//StreamWriter closes by defualt.
if (rowCount == (dataTable.Rows.Count - 1))
sw.Write(dataRow["item_id"].ToString()
+ dataRow["qoh"].ToString().PadLeft(4,

4. '0').TrimEnd('r'));
else
sw.WriteLine(dataRow["item_id"].ToString()
+ dataRow["qoh"].ToString().PadLeft(4, '0'));
//Counter to accuraletly loop through the foreach.
rowCount++;
}
//Closes the StreamWriter Stream
sw.Close();
SAI 430 week 1
iLab
iLAB OVERVIEW
Scenario/Summary
The simple process of reading data from a database and
transferring the data to a sequential file is a very integral part
of data and information systems in industry today. For the
system being developed in this course, this process is no less
important. The actions of reading data from a database will
actually take place in two different places in the system, and
deal with two different databases. For this first lab, we will
address one of those scenarios and create a small application
that ends up being applicable to the project.
For this first lab, we will use the Microsoft Visual Studio suite
of applications and build our lab project in C#.net. The
application will be very simple in nature, but at the same time it
offers all of the required functionality to accomplish the actions
needed. One nice thing about the .NET environment is that it

5. will do a lot of the work for you.
Very Important - Getting set up for the lab
You will be doing the labs for Visual Studio using the F: drive
on the Citrix server. It is suggested, but not mandatory, that you
create an SAI430 folder on your F drive just to keep your work
separate from other work you might have on that drive. By
doing this you actually will be taking the first steps to setting
up the work needed to complete the group project for this
course. If you decide to use the root F: drive, then keep that in
mind when reading the rest of the instructions for the lab.
Before you can successfully complete this lab project, you will
need to perform a few preliminary tasks to get your environment
set up for the lab. First, you will need to download the
INVENTORY.MDB access database from the Doc Sharing
tab in the course website and save it into your directory
structure on the F: drive. This is the same access database that
will be used for the group project, but we will also be using it
for several of the labs.
Deliverables
The main deliverables for this lab will be the C#.NET
application and output file. Because a C#.NET application has a
number of files associated with it contained in a directory folder
named after the project name, as well as two sub directories
("bin" and "obj") with sub-folders under those, it is important
that you submit all of the files needed for the application. By
right clicking on the file folder that bears the application name
(invgrb_la1) and then selecting to send the folder to a Zip file,
you will get all of the files as well as folder structure needed to
submit for grading. You will also want to add the output file to
this Zip file.
Submit only the one Zip file to the week 1 iLab dropbox for
grading.
iLAB STEPS
STEP 1: Creating a New Project
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To begin the lab, first log into the iLab environment through

6. Citrix and select the folder labeled SAI430. In this folder you
will find icons for Windows Explorer, SQL*Plus and Visual
Studio 2005. For this lab you will want to open up Visual
Studio 2005. Be sure that you select "full access" from the
security window box so that you will be to be able to access the
C: on your current computer if you need to.
Once the Application has started up and you are at the Start
Page, select the create a new project option. When presented
with the New Project window like the one below, be sure that
you have highlighted Console Application under the Templates
window. Now give the new project the name INV_GRAB in the
Name field, and have the location field pointing to the
F:SAI430 folder you have on the F: drive. The diagram below
depicts what your New Project window should look similar to.
Once you have done this, select OK to complete this operation.
You may get a "Microsoft Development Environment" message
box stating that the project location is not a fully trusted .NET
runtime location. You can ignore this and just select OK. You
should now see your new project listed in the
Solution
Explorer window on the upper right hand corner of the editor
window. You are now ready to begin setting up your form.
STEP 2: Setting Up a Database Connection
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The first step now is to set up a database connection with
Access and then a data set that can be used to transport the data
from the database to the application to be written to a file. For
the purposes of this lab and your project, you will only need

7. data from two columns in the ITEMS table of the INVENTORY
database, but we will control that with the code written later.
The following steps will lead you through the process of setting
up the connection.
· To begin, you need to add the following three namespaces to
the top of your application code:
using System.IO;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;
Since you are going to be not only connecting to a database but
also writing data to a file, you will need all three of these listed.
· Now you can set up the connection to your Access database
that you downloaded and put in your folder. The actual
connection string is @"Provider=Microsoft.JET.OLEDB.4.0;
data source=F:inventory.mdb". This is a standard connection
string for MS Access. You will want to precede this with the
command - string conString = so that the finished connection
looks like this.
string conString = @"Provider=Microsoft.JET.OLEDB.4.0; data
source=F:SAI430inventory.mdb";
This is simply defining a string variable named conString and
assigning the connection string to it. We will use this variable
later.
· Now we need to define an OleDbConnection that will be used
to connect to the database. To do this you will need to define a

8. connection variable as a new OleDbConnection and point it to
the connection string defined in the previous step. Your code
should look like the following.
OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(conString);
Now you can connect and open the database with the following
command entered right below the line above.
conn.Open();
· Last, we need to declare a variable that will be used later on.
Although this really has nothing to do with setting up the
database connection, this is as good a place as any to do this.
You need to define a single variable named rowCount as an
integer and initialize it to zero. Your code should look like the
following.
int rowCount = 0;
STEP 3: Setting Up a Data Set
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Now you will need to set up a Data Set that will be used to hold
the data that is pulled from the database so that it can be
processed. This dataset will hold all of the records from the
item table. We will use this data to write out our inventory list
to a file.
· You will need to create a query string that will be used to get
the data in the "item" table. This will be a simple select
statement that will get all of the data from the table (we will be
specific regarding what is needed later). You will need to define

9. a string variable for this query string similar to what you did for
the connection string. When finished, your new string should
look like the following:
string selectStr = "SELECT * FROM item";
There is a variable we will need to use later on, so we might as
well define and initialize at this point. The new variable is an
integer data type and needs to be named rowCount. Initialize it
to zero.
· Now you need a new OleDbDataAdapter to work with the
dataset. To do this you will need to define an object named
DataAdapter as a new OleDbDataAdapter and then use the
selectStr created above and the connection variable create to
load it. Your code should look like the following:
OleDbDataAdapter DataAdapter = new
OleDbDataAdapter(selectStr, conn);
· Now we can define the data set like the following:
DataSet dataSet = new DataSet();
This is a simple definition that we can use along with the
DataAdapter Fill method to fill the data set like the following:
DataAdapter.Fill(dataSet, "item");
· We now have one more step that will allow us to define which
columns we want to get data from later on. We need to define a
DataTable object based on the new dataSet. To do this you will
need the following code:
DataTable dataTable = dataSet.Tables[0];

10. STEP 4: Getting and Writing the Data
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So far we have put everything together to get the data from the
database into our program. Now we need to deal with writing
the data out to a file. To do this we will be using the
StreamWriter class and some of its objects.
We must declare a new instance of the StreamWriter so that we
can obtain its methods. At the same time we can also initialize
the new writer to point to where we want the file to be written
to. Your code should look like the following.
StreamWriter sw = new
StreamWriter(@"F:sai430INV_GRB.txt", false);
Now we are ready to set up the processing to loop through our
data set, pull the data we need into a file, and print it out. To
help with this there is a file in Doc Sharing named
Lab1_code.txt. The code in this file can be copied and pasted
into the area of the code section you are working, just below the
line you added above. Be sure to change the directory path to
match yours for the output file.
You are now ready to make your last build. If everything has
been done correctly, you should end up with no error messages
and clean build. Once this has been done then you are ready to
execute the application by selecting Debug => Start from the
main menu. If all goes well you should be able to find your
output file in the location listed in the program.

11. STEP 5: Building the Application
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You are now ready to make your last build, but first you need to
make two changes to the properties for your project.
Changing the build option for 32-bit.
We need to build the application as a 32-bit application so it
will work with the Microsoft ODBC drivers for Access; to do
this you will need to select Project => INV_GRAB
Properties from the main menu. Now select the Build tab on the
side of the properties box, and then in the drop down list next to
Program Target, select the X86 option. This will allow the
application to build as a 32-bit application. Do not close the
properties window yet though, because there is one more step.
Setting the Security option:
Now select the Security tab on the left side. Check the Enable
ClickOnce Security Settings check box. This is a full trust
application option, which is what you want.
Now select File => Save All from the main menu and then close
the properties window.
Now you can either build or re-build the application. If
everything has been done correctly, you should end up with no
error messages and clean build. Once this has been done, you
are ready to execute the application by selecting Debug => Start

12. from the main menu. If all goes well you should be able to find
your output file in the location listed in the program.
STEP 6: Testing Your Application
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You first want to make sure that you have the Inventory.MDB
database in the SAI430 folder on the F: of your directory
structure in Citrix. This should also be the same location of
your source code project and the location to which you have
pointed the program to write the output file. In order to test the
application and generate the output document you will need to
turn in, do the following:
1. Again, make sure the application, inventory.mdb, and the
output path in the application are all using the SAI430 directory
on the F: drive in Citrix.
2. Execute your program.
3. Check to make sure that the output file has the correct data in
it.
4. Submit this file along with your code to be graded.
Course Project
Course Project Review Only
Discussions
1.
Information vs. Service Integration (graded)
The author states that there is a clear trend in moving away
from information-oriented integration and toward service-

13. oriented integration. Do you see any examples in your work
environment or experience that would support this? Why do
you think this is true, or do you disagree with the author?
2.
Lab and Project Forum (graded)
This thread is used to discuss the programming labs and project
techniques. Post any programming questions or "hints and tips"
on this week's programming lab. At a minimum, post at least
three notes that highlight the key programming techniques,
problems you had with this week's lab, or help to other students.