Fly is a flight booking system created by me in 2017 for an assessed project, it was my first time using C# and I had not yet been introduced to OOP.
My aim for this project is to update Fly and clean it up to bring the programming to a higher standard.

Each update will have its own section detailing the issue and how I will fix it.

The UI was thrown together very quickly with minimal artistic skill.

• Change the colour of the UI to make it cleaner and look nicer.
• Move elements about to make the user experience better.
• Possibly investigate animations for hovering over a button.
• Users should be able to type origin and destination with suggestions showing up each time they enter a char.

Right now, Fly connects to a database using the MySQL connector for CSharp. There are multiple methods in each Form that connect to the database independently, which is not good. In the future I plan to move to an API instead of connecting straight to the database, so while remaking the database connection I will keep this in mind to make switching easy.

• Create an object for database connections to keep the code in one place.
• Create search queries using SQL instead of downloading all the data from the database and sifting through it each time a connection is made.
• Create an API to get data.

Last time I wrote this, I used an encrypt/decrypt script that I found in the CSharp docs, so this time I'd like to write my own.

• Look into types of encryption, and how to implement it into CSharp.
• Choose what to encrypt, based on new GDPR data laws introduced in 2018 (after the project had been handed in).
• Possibly draw up a mock "how we use your data" etc section? (This will be low priority, but good to think about while making an app like this).

Areas of the program I need to clean up that don't fit under a heading:

• Disallow users to select the same origin and destination.
• If no flights on a date, suggest more dates.
• Get flight connections working.
• Allow the user to select an airline preference when choosing a date, origin and destination.

I wrote this when I was new to programming, so I have not followed any coding conventions. I will try to clean up the code as I go along. Forms to clean:

• MenuForm
• BookingForm
• BookingListForm
• CollectTicketForm
• SearchTicketForm