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Application Development with Microsoft Access Application: a series of programs or computer codes that execute tasks that a user wants done. Maintaining a list of your friends' addresses and phone numbers is a personal application. Producing the weekly payroll for 100 employees of a business is a commercial application. Running a computer model to predict a protein structure is a scientific application. Development: design, create, make, build all the parts of the application. Analyze: talk to the client (the user) to find-out what he wants. If you don't have a user handy, use your imagination and prior knowledge to guess what a user would want. Design: create a model of the system. A model is like a blueprint to a builder. It is a drawing or a description of some kind of what the system will look like when finished. When you determine how things will work and how problems will be solved. You do that before you start to write computer code. Create: write the application using the software - Access, in this case. And while you're creating you're also testing and debugging to make sure that what you create works the way it's supposed to work. Example: VIDEO STORE The first thing you will discover is that there are 2 entities that you are working with. An entity is something you keep data on, an object that acts on other objects. In this application they are: Customers and Movies. We'll use the term "Movies" to describe our products even if they are DVDs or games or whatever. Now, take out your pencil and paper and make a list of all the data, we call them fields, that you have to keep for each entity. You should get something like this: docsity.com