Introduction
Broner
Programming
Laboratory (BPL) is a web-based interactive and collaborative tool
designed to
fully engage Users, Administrators and Designers in the process of
programming Science & Technology Teaching and Research, as well
as Healthcare Education projects.
Front-end
BPL is designed to allow for easy and fun experience of
gathering and
updating of Project information. As the information is
collected
and organized, BPL reporting capabilities allow viewing (and printing) of a variety of
Programming Reports. Because BPL is web-based, it does not
require purchase of any additional software for any of its Users. It can be accessed
from anywhere, at any time with any of the popular web browsers.
Back-end
BPL uses MySQL, the world's most
trusted
and used open-source relational database management system, for
organizing each Project's data into useful information.
Export
Project Reports can not only be
viewed
on-line, but can be downloaded in several ubiquitous formats. It
should be noted however that most of a report's style and appearance
formatting is lost during export to commonly used word-processing and
spreadsheet file types. After all, they are not intended to
handle database reporting.
Security
Entry to the Project Data is
controlled by
the BPL administrator by assigning custom defined and delimited access
permissions to each authorized User.
Thus some Users may be allowed to avail themselves of all of the
features of BPL,
including data input, while others may be granted permissions only to
view and download Project Reports.
Working with BPL
Forms (Input)
The first set of forms that need to be filled out concern basic Project information.
Reports (Output)