Elevate your career prospects with this capstone project, designed to help you showcase job-ready programming skills in a real-world scenario. This hands-on experience allows you to implement application architecture and software development concepts and techniques through a fictitious case study, digitizing the clinic administration by moving from paper-based workflows to an online Smart Clinic Management System.
Java Development Capstone Project
Java Development Capstone Project
This course is part of IBM Java Developer Professional Certificate
Instructor: IBM Skills Network Team
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3 weeks at 1 hour a week
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Taught in English
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There are 3 modules in this course
This module lays the groundwork for the capstone project by introducing the case study you will work on. It also highlights the prerequisites, including awareness of the key concepts and essential tools to work on the capstone project. The module provides an overview of technical design and user story concepts. You will define your architecture, identify microservices, and prepare your local development environment. Through the hands-on labs on a real-world clinic business scenario, you’ll create an architecture specification document and user stories for a clinic management system.
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1 assignment
This module focuses on designing database schemas for both structured and unstructured data in a healthcare portal. You'll create MySQL and NoSQL schemas, define primary and foreign keys, and establish relationships between entities. You will also learn how to design JPA models, including patient, doctor, appointment, and admin, using appropriate annotations, validations, and mappings to represent relationships between models effectively.
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1 assignment1 app item
This module guides you through setting up the initial database for a healthcare portal using the MySQL CLI, and adding sample data into both SQL and NoSQL databases provided in the course. You'll create the required database structures and populate them with sample data for users including admins, doctors, and patients. Finally, the module also introduces the creation and use of stored procedures in SQL to support backend functionalities such as reporting and analytics.
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