Week 5

This week’s lecture.. *checks lecture slides* taught us about event tables, and how to represent processes diagrammatically. Kinda confusing though.. all those diagrams.. It all made sense to me in the lecture though. I’ll have to read the textbook to get a better understanding. I’m sure the examples there would further aid my understanding.

In tutorial we had some hands-on practice with event tables. We were supposed to ‘describe the operation of a lift’. All I can say is: who knew elevators were such complicated things?? Our job was to find the various events that can occur and the trigger, source, activity, response and destination associated with it. Seems easy enough at first (“Filling in the table? No probbbblem!”) but once the thinking caps actually came on we found that it wasn’t all so easy after all. To be fair, both our tutor and lecturer warned us it wasn’t going to be that easy!

Once we were done with the event tables we proceeded to answer the question from the textbook. Hmm.. also not very easy. Quote from Mr Ramesh: “The second question is not very hard so you should be able to finish it fairly quickly.” Well.. true, but the time-consuming part, for our group, was in understanding the question :P Once we had a good idea of what was being asked it wasn’t so bad after all.. providing of course, that our interpretation of the question was correct..