Scientific Method:

• Problem/Purpose -
      The goal of my project is to make a simpler way for retail store to receive, check-in, and order shipments from the company. Many companies to this day still rely on pencil and pen methods, which are time consuming and error prone. My project will test to see if an online version of these actions would prove easy as well as beneficial to companies who are in need of improvement.
  
  
• Hypothesis -
      My project will try to solve this problem that retail stores face by interfacing a database with the internet. This way the actions to be performed can not only be done quickly, but then will also be sent to the receiving area promptly. This would solve the problems that companies are facing today. Hopefully by the end of this year, i will have all the pieces of this project integrated and working together to make a project that could in theory be used by a company. In other words, I should have a workable project that does everything it is supposed to do efficiently.
  
  
• Procedure -
      Experimentation of this project is quite simple. First I will be checking to see if the program works for one company. That means all the seperate parts work and they work together. Different trials can be made, but there really is nothing I am testing that produces different outputs. After that, time permiting, I can try to make it work for more than one company, off of the same website. Elements that won't change in this project is the inventory, but the thing being tested is if the ordering process actually works, if the check-in system works, etc. As long as the project does correctly what is supposed to do, i can claim that it works and the outcome was positive.
  
  
• Materials -
      The materials used in this project pretty much pertain to different computer languages. Some of which i have used are: php, html, javascript, and mySql.
  
  
• Observations/Data/Results -
      A log of my work can be found HERE. Similarily, coding and screenshots can be found HERE.
  
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• Analysis
  • Explain your observations, data, and results. This is a summary of what your data has shown you.
  • List the main points that you have learned.
  • Why did the results occur? What did your experiment prove?
  • Was your hypothesis correct? Did your experiment prove or disprove your hypothesis? This should be explained thoroughly.
  
  
• Conclusion
  • Answer your problem/purpose statement.
  • What does it all add up to? What is the value of your project?
  • What further study do you recommend given the results of your experiment? What would be the next question to ask?
  • If you repeated this project, what would you change?