Student attendance reporting prototype using SSQL

  • Authors:
  • Courtney Humphries;Dawn Wilkins

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Mississippi, University, MS;The University of Mississippi, University, MS

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

At the University of Mississippi, there is an initiative to use barcode scanners on large classrooms to better manage attendance records. Like most major universities, any plans to introduce a new system of any kind on a large scale can require a significant amount of financial support, human resources, and approval from many departments. Before a campus wide system is implemented, it is often a good approach to build a prototype system to better estimate implementation feasibility and proposed benefits versus cost. This paper demonstrates how the Simple Stream Query Language (SSQL) can be used to help rapidly develop a prototype reporting system focused on querying data from these barcode scanners before a large-scale system is implemented. SSQL is an easy-to-use data stream query language that runs in a standalone interpreter.