Week 7

Wow, week 6 flew by rather quickly didn’t it? Feels like I wrote my last entry just yesterday. . Perhaps due to a busy week. I’m now happy to say that I have said Goodbye to Assignment 1a. Not a teary Goodbye though, I know I’ll see it again soon. Once they’re marked. They always have a way of finding their way back home :)

After reading the CyberRoo memo, listening to the audio (and even typed up a transcript!) and going through the forum, I managed to gather enough information to produce 22 Events. I’ve heard many different numbers though, ranging from 18 to 29. It got me kinda worried.. Did I do enough? Did I do too much? I’ll find out soon enough I guess.

Okayyy.. today’s lecture.

Again, I’d like to say I liked the study guide better than the lecture notes. Yes, I’m finding it odd that I prefer comprehensive black-and-white notes as opposed to colourful but straight-to-the-point ones. This week’s lecture started off with a continuation of last week’s Use Case lecture. We had a brief recap of the what we did then proceeded to the lecture slides on System Sequence Diagrams (SSD), integrating object-oriented models and had a discussion on traditional approaches vs. object-oriented approaches. The second half of the lecture then focused on this week’s topic regarding the final stages of the analysis phase. This includes things like prioritising system requirements, coming up with alternative approaches, being able to evaluate and select the best approach, approaching vendors and creating reports and presenting it to the client. These processes help developers make the transition between gathering and analysing system requirements to the design and development of the system.

*Fast-forward three hours later*

During the tutorial class, we continued to work on last week’s tutorial questions regarding the class diagrams and use case modelling. I actually enjoyed the exercise immensely as it allowed us to get some hands-on experience as opposed to just understanding the theory. My only problem was I kept feeling tempted to adding a crow’s foot to my class diagram. Yes, I’ve had a lot more practice with entity relationship diagrams (ERD) from last year, shows doesn’t it? ;)