Week 8

As you can see, im a little late in doing this. better not be becomming a habbit. na i have had a crazy week of assignments and have just found some time.

Lecture consisted in design, the first week on it. it covered activities that occur in the phase such as Application architecture, user interfaces, system interfaces, database, network diagram and system controls. Also discussed prototyping of systems to make sure that the client is happy with what is thought is needed. Diagraming and more diagramming is needed but also different layers of archeteture such as view layer, business logic and data level so that if a change is made, it should not effect any other layers.

Tutorial was kind of frustraiting because of a class of 10 or 15 people, it was like there was a participation of 2 people. i find that the way i learn is by finding out how the others think and expand on my thoughts. with 2 people including myself is not enough. oh well the tut consist of looking at the CFA website and discuss the purpose and problems and then solutions. also we looked at telestra and other smaller activities. i thought that maybe there could have been a bit more in the tut but with the input from others it seemed to be fine. i thought the questions could have been a bit harder but i spose its the first week. i know i have pritty much just bitched but i felt that it was necessary.

Week 7

A bit of a small week this week although stupid me, i thought we had 2 weeks holiday. dont ask why, im just plain stupid.

well the lecture started with an AFL blue slurpee from 7eleven. i thought i would give it a try and it seems to be a great refreshing start to the day. ok the leture. finishing analysis is the topic and it was not really a huge lecture. just spoke about choosing what needs to be done. inhouse development or outsourced and determining the benefits and also if the porject your about to build, is there a package that can be implemented instead. then comparing porducts from other products by giving ratings in a Partial Matrix of General Requirements.

the tutorial was just a continuation of the last tutorial and really did not learn to much more. starting to get a bit more hang of it which will be needed but deffinitly not an expert.

Week 6

Last day of Uni but wait, theres still more. well work to do over the break. as if they can call it a break and make assignments due staright after. defeats the purpose of a break really. oh well enough about that, lets get into blog for this week.

Lecture. Well lets say it didnt start too well, Peter forgot to put transitions on the slides but recovered well with the best yet. This week was about use case diagramming. it pritty much stick figures and circles that have meanings. Stick figures standing for the actors and the circles for the use cases within the system. they then can be connected to show the interacrtion. but there is also an interaction between cases which is <> . then there is use case desciptions which can have either brief, intermediate or fully developed. this descibes the step in which each use case works. also talked about Sample Sequence Diagram (SSD) and Simplified Activity Diagrams.

Tutorial. not too much to tell. just did some exercises using case tools to proactice how to draw the diagrams. also there were examples in which we had to draw the diagrams too. a little difficualt and loads of thinking but was deffinatly will help towards the assignment