Week5

10/Oct/2010

Suppose if I could build up experience in software development luckily, I would not forget what I feel now and at least not insult learners. Otherwise the gold experience would end up to be ruined. Spent a few hours in discussing reminder function. I need to be ready for coding and wonder if I still remember ASP.Net and C#. Need to refresh my mind.


9/Oct/2010

Trying to update Gantt chart with MS Project. I couldn't make plan well at the beginning of the project so now the face of the Gantt looks weird. But it's OK. Still cannot get clear image of the difference between association and aggregation /composition of the class diagram.Which means still cannot get clear image of the coding I think. But I will get it with this project. Created Manage Case activity diagram and started to think about Manage Reminder activity diagram. Going well little by little.


8/Oct/2010


Friday is a sport day. We play badminton and basket ball with other friends to refresh our mind. Good time. Discussed more create functions.Just as search functions, it changes details depending on what to create. Think procedures and many possibilities and then put them into activity diagrams and Visio templates. The system is getting clear to us I believe even though there are so much things we need to discuss.



7/Oct/2010


Analysis phase is the one of the most important phase in the software development, I understand. Even only one function takes us long time to discuss and decide. With drawing activity diagrams, we discussed functions of managing events and client details. Even a few function took half a day. It seems never end! Anyway, we get better.



6/Oct/2010


2nd client meeting. Unfortunately Mr.Client is away for the business trip but we could see Mrs.Client. She took a time during her busy schedule. We realized even we tried to understand their accounting business, it's so hard in only 3 months. We could be good developers but not accountants. Anyway, after the good discussion, we worked on the search function. To say search function is easy but indeed there are heaps of stuff we need to think. What they can search? How to display the result? ERD is almost done so move to class diagram soon. But got one important question. User ID belongs to company? or person?

5/Oct/2010

Tuesday morning starts with practices for the presentation. It seems that we are getting used to the presentations. This is good and bad. Good point is we could get skills anyway and bad thing is we forget carefulness. What was happened is that we did not check the visibility of our presentation slides in advance so when we displayed them on screen, we found some of them were invisible. Damn! It's OK. At least we could learned. We must check the visibility every time.


4/Oct/2010
 
Same thing again. We spent lots of hours to create Activity diagrams and sequence diagrams and ended up with mistakes. I am still a  student so it may be OK but on the other hands, it means I am not ready for the business world. Based on my decision, we also spent many hours to prepare for the presentation for tomorrow but now need to reorganize it. Not sure if we have enough time or not. Anyway it is a good chance to know the real procedure of the software development. Again I realized we really don't have enough time. Too many stuff. Even I cannot create a Gantt chart properly. We discussed the GUI and found many options are there. E.g. Search function.How much we will create? By any words? With category? What will be the most important function for the user? Need another long meeting, maybe.