-- Cookbot --
Teamwork is Optional but Advised !!
This is not a trivial challenge, so if you find yourselves creating a simple database, you are not on the right track. Here are some of the challenges you must accommodate with your design:
- First and foremost you are feeding data to a robot so the robot will work based on a series of linear instructions. You can either store these instructions in the database in advance or allow the robot a mechanism to build them on the fly, but your robot does not have any AI
- Cooking is done in steps or stages. You have to implement a way to handle stages -- in other words which individual tasks (add salt) are done at which stages (like during create sauce)
- Any human user can add recipes to the robots repertoire by using the UI for the database. You do not have to create the UI in this assignment but your design must support the use of a user-based UI (you can't hard code instructions in the database). This step also introduces the concept of a recipe as the users perspective of the contents of the database, so your design must support this concept
- Your design must support the materials (pots & pans) and supplies (ingredients) needed to make the dishes. These will be your base elements that will come together to form stages, which will then be sequenced together to form dishes
If you have had my AD-400 Project Management class, it might be helpful to take a non-trivial dish (something like lasagna) and put it into ProjectLibre just to get an understanding of the relationships involved. It may also help to load a recipe or 2 into the database.
