Week 4 in FIT2001

Well well well, its week 4 and what have we done this week?

We made some progress into the inner workings of analysis. We looked at the following:

• Defining an event
• Classifying external, temporal and state events
• Created an event list to record gathered information
• Distinguished an event from an activity
• Looked at the concepts of objects, classes, attributes and methods.
• Identified classes of objects and associations from an event list or a problem statement
• Became familiar with the different ways object oriented SDLCs use models

But what are the things that stick in my head mostly:

One is the making of an event table. I think this is a cool tool to have in building a complete picture of an analysis that successfully sees the needs and happening of the system being analyzed.

I also like the way classes are modeled using a square table which includes the class title, the attributes and the methods. I can see how this form of structuring models will help paint the picture and define the road map in developing a great system.

Also i like UML more and more and I'm looking forward in using it for the assignment which by the way is due in May. I haven't started it yet because i want to get more into the course and pick up on the tools available to me for a best attempt in tackling the assignment. Might get started in the fist week of April which will give me 4 weeks to finish it and improve it as best i can.

See you in week 5.