Here is my tutor's event table from the tutorial excersises in week 5:
Friday, 30 March 2007
Event Table
Hey boys and girls that like SAD!
Here is my tutor's event table from the tutorial excersises in week 5:
Here is my tutor's event table from the tutorial excersises in week 5:
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Week 5
Hey people!
We are being visited by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, so everyone get pure and get all sexy, but not really. He's a cool bloke though, i wanna give him a big nerdy hug and rub his belly. everybody loves a good lama.
anyways back to SAD... this week in the tutorial we talked about myspace and afl, oh no that's what i was doing, jk. nah, we did some great Class diagrams and event tables, attribute IDing and i learnt how to use monash proxy servers to authenticate the license key for Visual Paradigm Standard edition. ummm yeah so that was a great start to the tutorial now i'm doing my blog and going over the lecture slides which seem to be as interesting as love in a rash guard.
seriously though we have done alot of Data Flow Diagrams, structured english, event tables, decision tables and Class diagrams in other units so it wasn't really very new for me, all pretty straight forward really, although it's sort of hard to create these structured english documents, diagrams and tables but the are easy to understand and read. just to show u how easy they are to read here's a simple example(above left).
*holds up glass*
Here's to signing off for another week.
We are being visited by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, so everyone get pure and get all sexy, but not really. He's a cool bloke though, i wanna give him a big nerdy hug and rub his belly. everybody loves a good lama.
seriously though we have done alot of Data Flow Diagrams, structured english, event tables, decision tables and Class diagrams in other units so it wasn't really very new for me, all pretty straight forward really, although it's sort of hard to create these structured english documents, diagrams and tables but the are easy to understand and read. just to show u how easy they are to read here's a simple example(above left).
*holds up glass*
Here's to signing off for another week.Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Week 4
Hey people!
How's it going? yes, yes, u really should respond to that question using a comment, you c the botton, it's down the end of this blog, just click right there when u finish and say whateva u want; how u r feeling, what u think of the blog, what u think of me, all comments r good so get commenting my amazing readers.
ok so on to good old week 4 stuff. tutorial this week was fairly helpful, other than forcing me to listen to the assignment .mp3 file so that i could ask questions of our subsitute for dirk. The asking of questions was pretty helpful, but i think that some of my questions weren't really answered because there was no answer for them, while annoying it was also refeshing that i didn't have to think in so much detail.
personally i love modelling, it's so fun to build up an idea in your head which seems so pure and true, unfortunetly the real world isn't ever like a model, but that's fine. I have a real problem w/ the model of the water supply system on the slides because it has like no reservoirs, but i guess they wanted more abstraction than i did, maybe it makes no difference if there are reservoirs logically, but i haven't really got my head around thinking completely logically yet so who knows.
I think determining what is inside and what is outside the system is sometimes hard to determine, like i couldn't decide if muso is a part of my.monash unless i knew they were run by different people and that they bought the WebCT system from vendor (i think so @ least).
ERDs and UMLish stuff is familiar from database and programming, i don't know why u call it a class diagram when it makes sense to call it that in OO programming but they call it UML, bizare. Is there a difference between UML and class diagrams? i'm bit vague on that. I like the Object Management Group or OMG as they may prefer. i really wanna b a member of that group then i could say "omg, OMG is cool"
Well that's enough blabbling and statire from me.
Get Commenting!
see you guys soon
How's it going? yes, yes, u really should respond to that question using a comment, you c the botton, it's down the end of this blog, just click right there when u finish and say whateva u want; how u r feeling, what u think of the blog, what u think of me, all comments r good so get commenting my amazing readers.
ok so on to good old week 4 stuff. tutorial this week was fairly helpful, other than forcing me to listen to the assignment .mp3 file so that i could ask questions of our subsitute for dirk. The asking of questions was pretty helpful, but i think that some of my questions weren't really answered because there was no answer for them, while annoying it was also refeshing that i didn't have to think in so much detail.
personally i love modelling, it's so fun to build up an idea in your head which seems so pure and true, unfortunetly the real world isn't ever like a model, but that's fine. I have a real problem w/ the model of the water supply system on the slides because it has like no reservoirs, but i guess they wanted more abstraction than i did, maybe it makes no difference if there are reservoirs logically, but i haven't really got my head around thinking completely logically yet so who knows.
I think determining what is inside and what is outside the system is sometimes hard to determine, like i couldn't decide if muso is a part of my.monash unless i knew they were run by different people and that they bought the WebCT system from vendor (i think so @ least).
ERDs and UMLish stuff is familiar from database and programming, i don't know why u call it a class diagram when it makes sense to call it that in OO programming but they call it UML, bizare. Is there a difference between UML and class diagrams? i'm bit vague on that. I like the Object Management Group or OMG as they may prefer. i really wanna b a member of that group then i could say "omg, OMG is cool"
Well that's enough blabbling and statire from me.
Get Commenting!
see you guys soon
Wine is good!
Hey people,
Firstly this isn't a particularly a Systems Analysis and Design (or SAD as some people refer to it as) blog per se but i will try to make it as similar to the subject matter as a grape harvest can be.
So off to Shoreham on the Mornington Peninsula which is about an hour and half out of Melbourne. We analysed the best route there via a petrol station by using Alex (daughter of captain pete and Mrs. Coronel, owners of the property we would b visiting) as our GPS. So after the freeway turns in to a road we got to the last place we could get a trailer large enough for our extensive needs. After purchasing our ice-creams we walked to the trailer and tried to attach it to the car.... hmmm that was fun, the check out chick(he was male but i don't like him so he can be called a chick(not saying that being a chick is bad, just he didn't seem like he wanted to be a girl)) @ the petrol station seemed to think it was easyaparently a bunch of IT students can't figure out how a simple mechanical device work but can object orientent program in serval languages including one of us who has got 3 first class honours in just 1 year at university. After some jumping and alot of standing around w/ hands on hips a nice employee decided we looked clueless so helped us, so very kindly, i mean customer service who would have thought.
So we continued along the designed route to our eventual destination travelling @ 100 in 3rd gear was a new phenomena for me but i was well in to it as long as we didn't get jack-knifed.
Arriving at the house was most lovely, the most picturesque of locations, with; grape vines, cows and a dam, all of which were visited on our grand tour which included a running race up the hill that had about a 25° incline, needless to say i did not win. The house, oh the house, it's so cute, fit with ample sleeping for all of us, which was quite annoying for me as i wanted to sleep in the same bed as some1 ;) yeah, it was Zander, the IT Technical Director at Digital Tree(yep a nerd), now stop staring.
A few bottles of wine later we were all merry, except our perfect driver, and we headed off to frankston to get Alex's brother Simon (yep, i know what u r thinking he couldn't possibly be a nerd, but oh yes he is (he programs in his spare time, oh yes he is (like i can talk i'm using 3 brackets within one another))). Then it was home to play Flux, the ever changing game, darts then bed, there was no creeping around at night, every1 got a solid night's rest in ready for the big day 2morrow.
6:45 AM (not the AM, yes 6:45 in the morning, yeah i know there is a time that early) we got up, well kinda, when i say get up i mean fall up, like fall out of bed and sort of fall down the stairs for caffinated hot drinks and toast.
Off to work we go, me and the best guy in the world Varun, first we were picking up buckets after the employed pickers of south-east asian decent had finished with them (note: they work effing fast!) then when farmer Miles took the first trailer away filled with 4 bins (1 ton) of grapes to the processing plant, me and fellow bucket picker uperereererer Varun we took turns on the ride on mower with the small trailer on the back going up and down rows of vines absolutely hooning it past the pickers, ocassionally scaring the living day lights out of them.
Many tons of hauling grapes in to giant bins on top of giant bins on top of giant trailers from mini tractor with tired dirty bodies all sticky from the grape juice was rewarded generously once we had finished at about 2 PM (yes we worked 7 hours and it's only lunch time, yeah i was starving). I had serval servings of buffet food, desert and wine which seemingly had little affect from all my friends in the Coronel wine range; Pinot Noir, Chardonnay (what we were picking) and Rose.
So it was back to dear old melbourne and to monash caulfield for some unix! ummm... yeah like that was going to happen, i was dead! so i decided that i'd let the best student in the world, Varun made it to the class and gave me the low down the next day, but u know it's not as good i would have felt guilty but i was so happy with my effort w/ the grapes that i didn't care, and allah knows i slept well that night :D
Drink Coronel Wines!
Thank you readers,
Goodnight!
Firstly this isn't a particularly a Systems Analysis and Design (or SAD as some people refer to it as) blog per se but i will try to make it as similar to the subject matter as a grape harvest can be.
So off to Shoreham on the Mornington Peninsula which is about an hour and half out of Melbourne. We analysed the best route there via a petrol station by using Alex (daughter of captain pete and Mrs. Coronel, owners of the property we would b visiting) as our GPS. So after the freeway turns in to a road we got to the last place we could get a trailer large enough for our extensive needs. After purchasing our ice-creams we walked to the trailer and tried to attach it to the car.... hmmm that was fun, the check out chick(he was male but i don't like him so he can be called a chick(not saying that being a chick is bad, just he didn't seem like he wanted to be a girl)) @ the petrol station seemed to think it was easyaparently a bunch of IT students can't figure out how a simple mechanical device work but can object orientent program in serval languages including one of us who has got 3 first class honours in just 1 year at university. After some jumping and alot of standing around w/ hands on hips a nice employee decided we looked clueless so helped us, so very kindly, i mean customer service who would have thought.So we continued along the designed route to our eventual destination travelling @ 100 in 3rd gear was a new phenomena for me but i was well in to it as long as we didn't get jack-knifed.
Arriving at the house was most lovely, the most picturesque of locations, with; grape vines, cows and a dam, all of which were visited on our grand tour which included a running race up the hill that had about a 25° incline, needless to say i did not win. The house, oh the house, it's so cute, fit with ample sleeping for all of us, which was quite annoying for me as i wanted to sleep in the same bed as some1 ;) yeah, it was Zander, the IT Technical Director at Digital Tree(yep a nerd), now stop staring.
A few bottles of wine later we were all merry, except our perfect driver, and we headed off to frankston to get Alex's brother Simon (yep, i know what u r thinking he couldn't possibly be a nerd, but oh yes he is (he programs in his spare time, oh yes he is (like i can talk i'm using 3 brackets within one another))). Then it was home to play Flux, the ever changing game, darts then bed, there was no creeping around at night, every1 got a solid night's rest in ready for the big day 2morrow.
6:45 AM (not the AM, yes 6:45 in the morning, yeah i know there is a time that early) we got up, well kinda, when i say get up i mean fall up, like fall out of bed and sort of fall down the stairs for caffinated hot drinks and toast.
Off to work we go, me and the best guy in the world Varun, first we were picking up buckets after the employed pickers of south-east asian decent had finished with them (note: they work effing fast!) then when farmer Miles took the first trailer away filled with 4 bins (1 ton) of grapes to the processing plant, me and fellow bucket picker uperereererer Varun we took turns on the ride on mower with the small trailer on the back going up and down rows of vines absolutely hooning it past the pickers, ocassionally scaring the living day lights out of them.
Many tons of hauling grapes in to giant bins on top of giant bins on top of giant trailers from mini tractor with tired dirty bodies all sticky from the grape juice was rewarded generously once we had finished at about 2 PM (yes we worked 7 hours and it's only lunch time, yeah i was starving). I had serval servings of buffet food, desert and wine which seemingly had little affect from all my friends in the Coronel wine range; Pinot Noir, Chardonnay (what we were picking) and Rose.
So it was back to dear old melbourne and to monash caulfield for some unix! ummm... yeah like that was going to happen, i was dead! so i decided that i'd let the best student in the world, Varun made it to the class and gave me the low down the next day, but u know it's not as good i would have felt guilty but i was so happy with my effort w/ the grapes that i didn't care, and allah knows i slept well that night :D
Drink Coronel Wines!
Thank you readers,
Goodnight!
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Week 3
Hey boys and girls welcome to week 3.
yeah i know week 3 already, it's not all as new and exciting anymore is it? u start thinking about "oohhh what if i just miss this lecture and have a nice sleep in and just come to my tut. in the afternoon". bad boy/girl! i know bed is v. interesting u wont learn anything there. so turn up 4 lectures u big ugly boy or girl.
well lets do the boring stuff and talk about week 3 content for a while cos i mean that's what i'm meant to do right? it all sounds a bit familiar to material covered in IT in organisations FIT1003 the whole SLDC was covered a bit there, this is in much more detail of course.
– Gather information: easy u just go talk to stake-holders and watch users.
– Define system requirements: after u have gathered info u can then make a document that lists the requirements that the stake-holders want
– Prioritize requirements: put in order of importance which of these requirements are important
– Prototype for feasibility and discovery: make a mock up of a system and figure out how possible it is to make and what problems u might encounter
– Generate and evaluate alternatives: think about what other solutions are out there for your problem eg: vendor solutions
– Review recommendations with management: present to managers all the advantages and disadvantages of different alternatives.
BPR is for dumbies unless the existing system really suffers from serious issues.
to be honest all of the content seemed pretty straigh foward i can't really find anything particularly challenging from this week cos i've done alot of this kinda stuff in other units.
Alors les garçons et les filles,
untill next time,
Toodles
yeah i know week 3 already, it's not all as new and exciting anymore is it? u start thinking about "oohhh what if i just miss this lecture and have a nice sleep in and just come to my tut. in the afternoon". bad boy/girl! i know bed is v. interesting u wont learn anything there. so turn up 4 lectures u big ugly boy or girl.
well lets do the boring stuff and talk about week 3 content for a while cos i mean that's what i'm meant to do right? it all sounds a bit familiar to material covered in IT in organisations FIT1003 the whole SLDC was covered a bit there, this is in much more detail of course.
YAY for Analysis
– Gather information: easy u just go talk to stake-holders and watch users.
– Define system requirements: after u have gathered info u can then make a document that lists the requirements that the stake-holders want
– Prioritize requirements: put in order of importance which of these requirements are important
– Prototype for feasibility and discovery: make a mock up of a system and figure out how possible it is to make and what problems u might encounter
– Generate and evaluate alternatives: think about what other solutions are out there for your problem eg: vendor solutions
– Review recommendations with management: present to managers all the advantages and disadvantages of different alternatives.
BPR is for dumbies unless the existing system really suffers from serious issues.
to be honest all of the content seemed pretty straigh foward i can't really find anything particularly challenging from this week cos i've done alot of this kinda stuff in other units.
Alors les garçons et les filles,
untill next time,
Toodles
Friday, 9 March 2007
Can't wait till next week
yeah i know i planned to blog once a week but u know i just can't wait that long u know. i've been studying up with the help of my dearest friend wikipedia, my favourite resource in the universe and i think i get the unified process stuff now. It's both adaptive and spiral, sounds nice doesn't it. i wouldn't mind a woman that was like that, but that's another story (i'm not a freak and in to women that look like spirals). Anywho... i just can't get over the name;
Extreme Programming!!!
it's just so powerful, sound like they are going to get a hard book laptop and go down a dredfully steep mountain typing in code and if they get a syntax error an avolanche will come and crush them to death. it reality the adaptability and unpredictability features of this methodoly liken it to extreme sports but really i just felt like making fun of the name. seriously though there is extreme ironing, where 'athletes' iron in 'extreme' places, what a sport! i never thought they would think a way of making housework fun without a song like in Annie "It's the Hard Knock Life".Yeah yeah, i know i'm random and that i'm changing fonts now, wow i found the editing tools it's so intelligent for an IT student to b able to change fonts. i'm just a bit bored of that font it's a bit bloggerish, not v. microsofty u know. why am i still typing? lets copy a picture off the interweb and put it here so that i look intelligent.
anyways until next time,
stay classy fellow bloggers
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Week 2
hello world!
yes it is week 2 and yes i'm tired already and yes i worte and yes 4 times now. this week's lecture was packed with loads of information, i think i'm going to need to go over the material again to really get my head around it, cos the lecture just seemed to go so quickly. Although lots of the information was revision , bringing all the information out of my memory wasn't the funniest thing i could think of doing this morning, there are much better ppl i could b doing, i mean things....
I really did learn of lot of new stuffs 2days, including XP, i enjoyed the name, but i hope the OS wasn't made using this methodology. that Ze Frank guy is classic and like even too intelligent for me, like his IQ and knowledge sometimes make me wanna wiki what he is talking bout but hey it's all good. The DFD for structured anal. technique was a bit confused and it didn't help that i couldn't really read it on my slides. What i love bout this subject is that the break in the middle of the lecture isn't the best part of the lecture. I always find something funny, interesting or shinny to look at (i'm not a magpie).
The OO approach was a bit of a culture shock to my traditional SDLC childhood, but i think i can manage switching between the two. Blinking spiral model reminded me of programming 1 with Andy Bloucher where he kept talking bout spiral learning and how he said "i tell u liesss!" which made me giggle in my head for several minutes (i was obviously still paying attention to the lecture and not zoning out @ all!). UP is a bit of a blur, i can't seem to differenciated it in my head ill have to work on that shiz. Agile would make sense to me if i understood UP properly.
CASE tools seem fun and easy, i really think i would hate not using them once i had started. Feasability seemed v. straight foward. As for text book, yeah i have to work on reading those, it's all v. well having access, but for me reading isn't exactly my love. yeah so i read then i pass, sorry just mentally preparing myself to read.
that's all from me this week tune in next week where the title of the blog will be Week 3, i know i'm being being creative.
peace, love and war.
out
yes it is week 2 and yes i'm tired already and yes i worte and yes 4 times now. this week's lecture was packed with loads of information, i think i'm going to need to go over the material again to really get my head around it, cos the lecture just seemed to go so quickly. Although lots of the information was revision , bringing all the information out of my memory wasn't the funniest thing i could think of doing this morning, there are much better ppl i could b doing, i mean things....
I really did learn of lot of new stuffs 2days, including XP, i enjoyed the name, but i hope the OS wasn't made using this methodology. that Ze Frank guy is classic and like even too intelligent for me, like his IQ and knowledge sometimes make me wanna wiki what he is talking bout but hey it's all good. The DFD for structured anal. technique was a bit confused and it didn't help that i couldn't really read it on my slides. What i love bout this subject is that the break in the middle of the lecture isn't the best part of the lecture. I always find something funny, interesting or shinny to look at (i'm not a magpie).
The OO approach was a bit of a culture shock to my traditional SDLC childhood, but i think i can manage switching between the two. Blinking spiral model reminded me of programming 1 with Andy Bloucher where he kept talking bout spiral learning and how he said "i tell u liesss!" which made me giggle in my head for several minutes (i was obviously still paying attention to the lecture and not zoning out @ all!). UP is a bit of a blur, i can't seem to differenciated it in my head ill have to work on that shiz. Agile would make sense to me if i understood UP properly.
CASE tools seem fun and easy, i really think i would hate not using them once i had started. Feasability seemed v. straight foward. As for text book, yeah i have to work on reading those, it's all v. well having access, but for me reading isn't exactly my love. yeah so i read then i pass, sorry just mentally preparing myself to read.
that's all from me this week tune in next week where the title of the blog will be Week 3, i know i'm being being creative.
peace, love and war.
out
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