Example of Simulation SharePoint Project

Question

I have read lots of SharePoint and its administration and the next phase is to learn how to do real based coding as a SP developer. I have read the recommended website to understand deeply in coding (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/dn448483) and
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/dn448488). Of course I also have read lots of blog.
I have come to a point that I need to do simulation SharePoint project as a training to gain practical skills as a SP developer.
The main problem I'm facing is that I do not know what requirement specification is needed to create a real based project (in smaller size) as a training. Do you guys have any suggestion of a project with its requirement specification based on reality.

Answer 1

Why don't you create a Expense request form
User requests to get reimbursed from their company
Fields on the form include
Name - Auto fill based on logged in user
Title -short description
Department - dropdown of departments. they should pick the one they want to charge the expense against (or use general ledger account numbers) your choice (marketing, finance, sales, product development)
Allow the user to create (n) number of line items to each request
Each line item will have a
-Date field,
-Description of expense
-Sub account number/category dropdown (Milage, food,l odging)
-Amount spent
- ability to attach a receipt
the form should then calculate the total sum of the amount
on submit the form will kick off a workflow to go to an approver. (each department from the form dropdown has a different approver). The approver should receive an email stating they have a request to approve. After the request is approved/rejected user
should receive an email with the status.
This is can be scalable and a lot more logic can be built into something like this
Have Fun!
Alex