| Summary: | The main purpose of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) is to act as an
electronic organizer or day planner that is portable, easy to use and capable of
sharing information with a Personal Computer (PC). It's supposed to be an
extension of the PC, not a replacement. The traditional PDAs are actually
descendents of the original Palm Pilot and Microsoft's Handheld PC devices.
Pocket PC is the generic name for Windows Mobile PDAs. The scope of the
project is to develop a prototype of a Pocket PC application and Windows based
system that will be used as a traffic counter and evaluation program. Prototyping
technique was chosen for this project because a prototype is an initial version of
software system which is used to demonstrate concepts, try out design options and
generally it is easier to come up with probable solutions and problem
identification. Prototyping involves a repetitive sequence of Analysis, Design,
Modeling and Testing. Prototyping allows users to examine a model that
accurately represent system outputs, inputs, interfaces and processes. Decision on
what development tools to use is very important because there many other
programming tools or language available in the market. A study on various
languages and tools must be done in order to find out the advantages and
disadvantages of each programming language and tool. It is also important to
ensure that the process of studying these languages and tools, developing the
system must not exceed the given period.
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