--- MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
No somebody who has learnt the hardway that you need to design the code, if nothing else to design the bugs out. I'm not ont for
creating
BIG designs etc... just nice highlevel concept diagrams and other USEFUL things like that.
Yeah, pretty pictures. Everyone likes pretty pictures. 'cept me. I'll take a good explanation over a specialised diagram requiring a key almost any time.
This is cos you probalby have no formal training in systems analysis. once you try and use them they will become second nature, have a look at the book "UML in a nutshell" it explains it all, I was like you I ignored it all untill I understood how it would all work, I now will try and use UML for my software to improve it.
How can you say that? I originally posted a relational scheme to
the
list and was told tht it was naive and was lacking and some other scheme were posted, had we designed it correctly we would have the scheme ok first time round.
http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/pipermail/alug/2001-May/001083.html
Only Brett seemed to criticise it...
Critisie my scheme or my methods?
[...] What we must avoid like the plague is making assumptions, any engineer ot scientist will tell you that an assumption is the
mother
of all f*** ups.
What am I? A pomegranate?
Last time I checked you were something taking the form of a male human, however what was under this exterior is undecided (sorry couldn't resist)
Good code is code which meets the needs of the application and doesn't crash. [...]
Being written is a prerequisite for these.
No its not, being written well is the prerequisite.
Good. For now we need to just assume we have a RDBMS until the
point
when we have the design done.
Is an RDBMS appropriate, or should we just assume an OO backing store?
true, but the principles are the same, they all boil down to designing a relationa scheme which then needs to be normalised, and as relational theory is based on set theory as is OO theory the design is applicable to both, hence my keeping animplementation independent view of things.
Thanks
D
-- MJR
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