Week 5

Week five,
we learnt about modelling and using diagrams in traditional and OO approach, it was relatively easy.
Just something that confuses me a bit is Event tables, sometimes can't really understand the difference between activity & response. The difference between Event & Trigger is still blurry to me. maybe because we share the same name for them and it's a kinna redundancy.

I faced this problem when working on Tutorial exercise for the lift. at the end I think we have to use Class diagram and UML notation for connecting the classes to each other.
hope to write more in week 5. the topic was easy so nothing special to say.
Still haven't got what exactly IE is! gotta work on that more

Week 4

the reason why I posted this week's blog late was I was busy with another assignment I didn't have time to read the book. I wanted to read book and then write something.

this week's topic was about modelling. looks pretty straightforward. it also covered some issues about database which will be covered more in chapter 12 as the book said.

two important concept in modeling are:
1. events
2. things

in the studio we interviewed the tutor, nothing special...that might be a bit useful if he provided us with some general idea about assignment after finishing interview. (I'm not sure if he did or not cuz after finishing our own interview we left the room)
but the general discussion provide guidance with topics like where to start assignment.

Week 3

This week I started reading the text book in a different way. I started reading the text from the book while I have lecture notes in front of me. and tried to compare the lecture notes with the book and figure out which parts are more important and focus on those parts. this approach saved a lot of time and energy and at the end I realized I understood the idea better than last week.

Chapter 4 was about system analysis in detail and basically requirement gathering. the text was so general and provide some general idea about information gathering which heavily emphasized on communication skills.

the Studio was not really helpful, if we had some PowerPoint slides, or some transparency sheets that would help to understand better (even writing on the board would do).

We also formed groups for next week's Interview. But I really didn't understand why we formed group!!! As the tutorial sheet says just to conduct interview

Week 2, Part 2

I keep reading the prescribed book which I started reading from the first week, on the fist week and this week I spent a lot of time for reading Chapters 1, 2, 3.
I was not sure about my approach to reading this subject, I used to read the lecture notes first, then started reading book and try to summarize the important parts on a sheet of paper.
this approach took a lot of time and I didn't find it very useful and also I was not sure if I have to read and memorize all the thing in the book so I sent email to POD to find the appropriate approach. He replied that I should understand the text (this is the main aim) but memorizing some elements for each phase or other stuff would help to play around in the final exam and able me to express that I have great knowledge of this subject.

At Week 3, I will try another approach for Chapter 4

Week 2

This is second week, I still found subject very interesting. This week I learnt about 2 kind of approach and SDLC which was covered in FIT1001 - IT in Organizations in some ways.

Something I can't understand about this subject is the way we have to read the book. This subject looks very practical and I think we will do most of the thing like UML and...for assignment, we learn most of the things practically but how should read the text book in term of final exam are we supposed to memorize all the terms and definitions or we have to read it just to understand the concept...
I don't know when we are supposed to start our first assignment, I haven't started it yet but I'll probably try to at least read it by end of the week just to know if I can start working on that...I also plan to install the CASE-tool on my PC.

Week 1 Entry

Hi,
This is Siavash, I'm doing BITS, Information Management Major second semester.
I found this subject very interesting so far...if I'm right this subject is combination of different thing focuses on many issues like different technologies, different approaches to problems and how to solve it rather that just one topic (like programming that all you have to do is programming) that's why i like this subject and i hope it turns out as I predict...
I also heart about UML before and so in hurry to find out what kinna language it is, is it like SQL or something like Java or neither of them...