Thursday, August 31, 2006

Journal Entry 2: Modeling and Rationale

Now that you are working on a more detailed proposal, I would like you to pick one aspect of your project and sketch a UML model of it. I want the journal entry to record how this model changed as you completed the sketch, and how it changed the proposal that you are writing. Refer to Chapter 12, Rationale, for some things to think about when discussing the changes that happened; what were the issues, alternatives, criteria, arguments, and decisions you made? Aspects of the project that you can model include, tasks (timeline), the user interface, the data model, etc. If this approach is helpful in the creation of your proposal, consider modeling multiple aspects; think about how these models interact.

Due Thursday Sept 7.

2 comments:

Joe said...

When submitting your hand written journal entries, you can always photo copy the the pages and turn those in. This will avoid having to give up your journal for grading.

David said...

I just stumbled across a tool called ArgoUML: http://argouml.tigris.org/

Check it out if you have a chance. It's really easy to use, has all the weird shapes and descriptions of what they're used for, and makes it easy to move objects around in a diagram.