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550 Chapter 11 Building Solutions Critical Thinking The Critical Thinking exercises challe presenting real-world situations ass exercise should be completed with a instructions: Evaluate the situations below, using penonal experiences and one in print, blogs podasts, videos, televsion, user guides,other indvidualks, electronics evercise and share your deliverables in the format requested by your instructor tbie 1. Online Movie Reviews Information about movie titles and television shows is available from the web database IMDb (Internet Movie Database). Visitors can search IMDb using by title, cast member, year produced, characters, genre, awards, or other criteria. Each movie or show's listing offers a brief description and rating and includes links to such items as summary, trivia, reviews, quotes, and even streaming video options. Do This: Visit imdb.com and search for both recently wh ba for released and classic movies. Explain the steps you used to query the movie database. Assess how complete the information provided was. Who would benefit most ing de from using the movie database? Why? Answer the following questions about your experiences. Did the information provided differ when viewing recenty released titles versus classic movies? What did you learn from your queries? Can you identify a few fields that are included in the records for each movie? What interactive features can you identify? Can you find any HTML5 features that have been incorporated 3. Ca fo te te of 2. Spreadsheets versus Databases Some individuals and small organizations prefer using spreadsheets instead of databases. People who use spreadsheets might argue that similar to databases, spreadsheets have columns and rows, and you can keep track of different sets of data in individual worksheets le e This is similar to how you would use tables in a database to store different data sets. In addition, some find it easier to install, use, and maintain spreadsheet software than database software. After reading this chapter, you are convinced that databases have additional advantages, such as the capability of storing Collaboration 4. System Development Life Cycle A major retail company has the system development life cycle (SDLC) to create custom inver Do This: Assign SDLC steps to different teammates and comp

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• The steps that i used to query the database is as follows :
• First , i visited the website www.imdb.com
• Then , at the top i have seen a search box.
• In that search box i have entered the name of the title and next i selected the title option from the drop down .
• As soon as i have entered the values in search , i received many suggestion.
• After that i clicked the search button to perform a search.
• Then i received some matching result from the database.

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• Who would benefit the most from using the movie database ? why ? :
• ​​​​​​​All the users who registered with imdb can get benefits from this database.
• But it mainly give benefits to common people , because they can conform the identities of their favorite actors by searching for a particular movie.
• Also anyone with a pro account can get details like production industries.

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• Did the information provided differ when viewing recently released titles versus classic movies ? :
• ​​​​​​​Yes,the information provided are different in both cases.
• In cases of classic movies we get only details like its rate,released date,category of movie etc.
• But in case of titles , there will details of episodes such as number of episodes,current episode etc..
• Budget of movies are given.

• What did you learn from your queries ? :
• ​​​​​​​When query for a movie or a title , there is some background action occurs.
• The site collect our input and convert this input to queries.
• These queries are executed by server side languages like PHP and give response .
• Then this response is given to us.

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• Can you identify a few field that are included in the records for each movie ? :
• ​​​​​​​Yes, i can identify that.
• There may be fields to store name of movie or title,its rating,actors,released date,number of episodes.
• Fields for production industry information.
• Fields for total budget and much more..

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• What interactive features can you identify ? :
• ​​​​​​​Some of the interactive features available in the website are search box,drop down menus that collects user input.
• Also buttons to proceed with our inputs.

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• Can you find any html 5 features that have been incorporated ? :
• ​​​​​​​This website is outdated.
• It does not contain more features from html 5.
• But it contains some html 5 features.
• They are video elements,section,nav,footer etc..