This document contains instructions for 9 individual assignments and 5 learning team assignments for an online course POS 408. The individual assignments involve building a C# console application to display messages and collect user input of employee data, while incorporating different programming concepts each week such as variables, branching, classes, exceptions. The learning team assignments involve collaborating to discuss coding standards, demonstrate bitwise operators, apply inheritance using classes, and serialize objects to files. Students are instructed to complete the assignments in Visual Studio and submit zipped project folders.

1. POS 408 All Assignments
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POS 408 Assignment Week 1 Individual Console Display Message
POS 408 Assignment Week 2 Learning Team Methods Can Help with
Maintenance
POS 408 Assignment Week 2 Individual Adding Variables
POS 408 Assignment Week 3 Learning Team Understanding and
Applying Bitwise Operators
POS 408 Assignment Week 3 Individual Branching in C#
POS 408 Assignment Week 4 Learning Team Learn How to Apply
Inheritance Using Class Hierarchies
POS 408 Assignment Week 4 Individual Error Handling

2. POS 408 Assignment Week 5 Learning Team Learn How to Save
Objects to a File
POS 408 Assignment Week 5 Individual Data Structures
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POS 408 Assignment Week 1 Individual Console Display
Message
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POS 408 Assignment Week 1 Individual Console Display Message
The Software Development Company wants to develop software for
internal use. The company hired you to develop a Visual Studio® C#
Console Application displaying a Software Development Company
Welcome message on the console.
Using Visual Studio® and relating C# programming concepts, write a
program that displays a welcome message on the console.
Review debugging in Lesson 2, “An Introduction to C# and .NET” of
the Pluralsight course C# Fundamentals with Visual Studio 2015.

3. Demonstrate basic debugging capabilities by inserting breakpoints in
the code. Run the program in debug mode and provide a screenshot
showing the use of the breakpoints. The program should have the
following characteristics:
• Compile and Execute without errors
• Meets specifications by displaying a welcome message on the
console
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious
Zip your Visual Studio® project folder into a ZIP file with your name in
the file name. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your
solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer.
Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path
property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder.
Submit your ZIP file using Assignment Files tab.
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4. POS 408 Assignment Week 2 Individual Adding Variables
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POS 408 Assignment Week 2 Individual Adding Variables
The Software Development Company now requests you build a C#
program to collect information on software developers.
For this week’s assignment, build on the Week One Individual
Assignment, “Console Display Message,” by enhancing the program to
allow the user to enter one software developer’s name, addresses, and
monthly gross pay. The program should display on the console the
software developer’s name, address, monthly gross pay, and taxes paid
for that month. Taxes are set at 7% of the monthly gross pay.
Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, write a program
to meet the specifications of the company’s request. The program should
have the following characteristics:
• Compile and Execute without errors
• Meets specifications by displaying on the console a welcome
message along with allowing user input for the following
information:
o Software developer name
o Address

5. o Gross monthly pay
o Taxes
• Display the data the user input with the properly calculated taxes.
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious
Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted
for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your
solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer.
Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path
property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder.
Submit your ZIP file using Assignment Files tab.
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POS 408 Assignment Week 2 Learning Team Methods
Can Help with Maintenance
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POS 408 Assignment Week 2 Learning Team Methods Can Help
with Maintenance
As software developers, you know coding standards are an important
part of software development, and nearly every organization has a
coding standard that developers are expected to follow. You might even
be expected to collaborate on defining the coding standard for your team
or organization.
Refer to “C# Coding Conventions (C# Programming Guide)” from this
week’s reading.
As a team of software developers, discuss how using methods helps
with code maintenance.
Create a 1/2- to 1-page coding standard for your team that specifies how
methods are to be used in your team assignment.
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POS 408 Assignment Week 3 Individual Branching in C#
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7. POS 408 Assignment Week 3 Individual Branching in C#
The Software Development Company now requests you enhance the C#
program to display on the console additional information on all the
software developers’ information:
For this week’s assignment, build on the Week Two Individual
Assignment, “Adding Variables,” by asking the user to enter the names,
addresses, and monthly gross pay of three software developers. The
program should display on the console the software developer name,
address, monthly gross pay, and taxes paid for that month. Taxes are set
at 7% of the monthly gross pay. The program should also display the
annual gross pay and annual taxes of all three software developers.
Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, write a program
to meet the specifications of the company’s request. The program should
have the following characteristics:
• Compile and Execute without errors
• Meets specifications by displaying on the console a welcome
message along with allowing the user to enter the following
information on all three software developers:
o Software developer name
o Address
o Gross monthly pay
o Monthly Taxes
o Annual gross pay
o Annual taxes

8. • Data entered is displayed back to the user and taxes are properly
calculated.
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious
Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted
for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your
solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer.
Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path
property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder.
Submit your ZIP file using Assignment Files tab.
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POS 408 Assignment Week 3 Learning Team
Understanding and Applying Bitwise Operators
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9. POS 408 Assignment Week 3 Learning Team Understanding and
Applying Bitwise Operators
A common use of bitwise operators is the use of bit fields. If you and
your team of software developers has a set of permissions (Read, Create,
Update, and Delete), it is possible to use bit fields to store these values
in a single byte rather than needing 4 bytes, one for each permission.
Refer to “C Bitwise Operators” on the Microsoft® Developer
Network website.
As a team of software developers, research C# bitwise
operators, write a 1/2- to 1-page C# program in Word demonstrating
their use for this set of permissions.
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POS 408 Assignment Week 4 Individual Error Handling
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POS 408 Assignment Week 4 Individual Error Handling

10. The Software Development Company requests you add user error
exception handling capabilities to the C# program.
For this week’s assignment, build on the Week Three Individual
Assignment, “Branching in C#,” by storing the data input by the user in
a class. You will also use this stored data when you display the data.
The C# class must include the type of employee as either W2 or 1099
using the following requirements:
• The 1099 software development employees’ records do not include
or calculate any taxes
• The program properly handles and informs the user about errors on
user input
• The program demonstrates in the code the use of references types
• The program displays on the console all the software developers’
data, monthly pay, monthly taxes, annual gross pay, annual taxes,
and net pay
Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, write a program
to meet the specifications of the company’s request. The program should
have the following characteristics:
• Compile and Execute without errors
• Meets specifications by displaying on the console a welcome
message along with allowing the user to enter the following
information on three software developers:
o Software developer name
o Address
o Gross monthly pay

11. o Annual gross pay
o Employee type: W2/1099
o Monthly and annual taxes determined by employee type
• Data is stored in a class
• Data that is input is displayed properly from the class.
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective; demonstrates exception
handling routines and reference types by catching and displaying
user data entry errors and implementing reference types as part of
the code
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious
Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted
for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your
solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer.
Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path
property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder.
Submit your ZIP file using Assignment Files tab.
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12. POS 408 Assignment Week 4 Learning Team Learn How
to Apply Inheritance Using Class Hierarchies
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POS 408 Assignment Week 4 Learning Team Learn How to Apply
Inheritance Using Class Hierarchies
You and your team of software developers are creating a game for
children. The game has different types of animals.
As a team of software developers, create in a 1-page Word document
the class “Animal,” including appropriate methods and properties that
are common to all animals, subclasses of Animal, such as Cats, Dogs,
and Birds, and appropriate methods and properties unique to these
subclasses.
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POS 408 Assignment Week 5 Individual Data Structures
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POS 408 Assignment Week 5 Individual Data Structures
The Software Development Company now requests you add final
elements to the C# program.
For this week’s assignment, build on the Week Four Individual
Assignment, “Error Handling,” by reading the software developers’ C#
data structure records data from a file (data.txt), implement an array data
structure containing the data, and display on the console all the software
developers’ data, monthly pay, monthly taxes, annual gross pay, annual
taxes, and net pay.
Program Input File:
Create a Comma Separated Values (CSV) text file and named
“data.txt.” The data.txt file shall include information on at least five
developers put into rows and including software developer name,
addresses, and monthly gross pay separated by a comma.
Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, write a program
to meet the specifications of the company’s request. The program should
have the following characteristics:
• Compile and Execute without errors
• Meets specifications by demonstrating file handling, array data
structure manipulation, and console output mastery by
accomplishing the following:
o Read software developers’ data from a file

14. o Input the data into an array data structure
o Display the software developers’ data on the console
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious
Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted
for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your
solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer.
Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path
property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder.
Submit your ZIP file using Assignment Files tab.
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POS 408 Assignment Week 5 Learning Team Learn How
to Save Objects to a File
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15. POS 408 Assignment Week 5 Learning Team: Learn How to Save
Objects to a File
You and your team of software developers are experiencing problems
saving the state of a program between different times that the program is
run.
An object oriented program state can be maintained by saving the state
of the objects in the program. Also, you can transfer the state of an
object between different computer systems by creating the object based
on the state once it is saved onto that other computer. In order to provide
a way to persist object state, you must serialize objects in C#.
As a team of software developers and using the classes created in the
Week Four Learning Team Collaborative Activity, “Learn How to
Apply Inheritance Using Class Hierarchies,” serialize the objects of the
classes from that activity to a file as a Visual Studio® solution.
Zip your Visual Studio® solution project folder so it can be submitted
for grading. In Visual Studio®, you can locate the folder with your
solution by left clicking on the solution node in the Solution Explorer.
Look at the Properties window to find the folder name in the Path
property. Locate this folder in File Explorer and zip the folder.
Submit your ZIP file using the Assignment Files tab.
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