Week 9 in FIT2001

Hey, its a little late but here is my week 9 blog.. Yes POD you were right, its silly season for uni assignment and its taken its toll on me too. Nevertheless i have pushed on and done my weekly readings and tasks and although a few days late I'm still on top of things.

OK now week 9 saw us looking into the Structured Design.

The following is a list of what we covered this week:

• We described the steps involved in traditional approach to designing a software application.
• Developed a system flowchart.
• Looked at understanding the process of transaction analysis and transform analysis.
• Looked at writing and using pseudocodes.
• Explained how to use the three-layer design with the traditional approach.
• Described the nature of structured design and how it is similar and
• different to object design.

So far i like the structures method but will need to get a little more comfortable with the object way of thing weather i like it or not, being that its the industry standard and we will be expected to be masters of it when were out in industry.

The first time i design an application was using Microsoft Access and building a database program out if it for a small business i had, having no programming experience prior. The access way of doing things is very much like the structured method as you build tables first which will hold all the attributes and then you have an Entity Relation Diagram that you use to link the primary keys together (which now i see is just an unique identifier for an object instance). Anyway this has always stayed in my head whilst learning IT at Monash and i can somehow digest Structured methods more easily then the object method. I guess I' better be wide away when POD does the OO method in week 10..

Anyhow enough serious stuff, here is the best of Stewie form the Family Guy, i love this little critter.. :-)