week 08 - day 01 - The lost world -

[uncrownedthrone]

Jurassic Park: The Lost World

In the last assignment, you created a console app that stores items in a list, which doesn't last very long. For this assignment, you need to update your old app to use a database as well as update it with a few new features.

NOTE: The Additional Resources section below is very helpful. Consider reading this after reading Explorer mode. Then make a plan for the assignment for digging in and writing code.

Objectives

• Use an ORM to query against a database
• Extend your simple console app to use a database to persist data
• keep working through your capstone

Requirements

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• Create a simple console application that manages the dinosaurs in your amusement park
• Update your app with some new functionality
• Persist your dinosaurs in a database

Explorer Mode

• [x] Replace your List<Dinosaur> with a database. These notes should be helpful
• add the following 3 options to your app
  • [x] "release"
  • this command removes the closure number (setting it to a blank/default value)
  • [x] "hatch"
  • This command randomly creates a new Dinosaur. The only random values are name, weight and Diettype type
  • [x] "needs a sheep"
  • this command displays the lightest dinosaur that is also a carnivore

Capstone

• [x] Wireframes should be approved today
• [x] HTML, CSS, and JS are your main coding challenges.
• [x] Start thinking and mapping out your ERD for your database

Adventure Mode

• [ ] Add a column called IsHungry (bool). This property requires a migrations
• [ ] Add the following commands
  • 'who's hungry'
  • this command displays all the dinosaurs that have IsHungry set to false
  • 'feed sheep'
  • this command sets a specific dinosaur's IsHungry to true, but only if they are a carnivore
  • 'feed salad'
  • this command sets a specific dinosaur's IsHungry to true, but only if they are a herbivore
• [ ] Add a second table called 'ParkSections'. Update your app to allow 1 ParkSection to have many dinosaurs.

Epic Mode

• [ ] Next, we will create our first API. Try it yourself

Additional Resources

• EF Core
• Documentation: Dotnet EF CLI Docs
• LINQ notes
• EF Core Notes

[uncrownedthrone]

The program is still crashing and my mentor and I couldn't figure out the reason. I think I figured it out though after talking with him and will be talking with you about it tomorrow to confirm and fix. I think I'm referencing the wrong database and/or the database was created incorrectly.

https://github.com/uncrownedthrone/welcome-to-jurassic-park