My week 6 began with the strong realization that i need to submit 3 assignments by the end of this week and System Analysis Assignment 1a was one of them. As usual, week 6 of the semester happens to be the peak time for being busy with all assignments and i have not done much reading lately so i was expecting to be lost in the lecture. And it was sadly TRUE!!.... The day we had lecture and tutorial happened to be my birthday and i was getting bored with all the diagrams that were not making much sense.. All those diagrams felt like a repetition of week 4 & week 5 lecture. Basically these diagrams were about Use Cases that we would need to draw in our Assignement 1b so it was imperative that i understood how to make them and how they actually work.
Then after a while i decided to go through the study guide and i found it extremely useful. It was descriptive and in point form explaining the things in a proper order. Like the study started with a definition of use diagrams, some examples and then a step-by-step process to draw a case diagram. That instantly changed my mood as my doubts were getting slowly cleared by the content of the study guide. I wish the lectures would have more detail and less diagram so students can understand the topic well because what i think is that too much diagrams just don't seem to be meaningful and would create more doubts.
Then after a while i decided to go through the study guide and i found it extremely useful. It was descriptive and in point form explaining the things in a proper order. Like the study started with a definition of use diagrams, some examples and then a step-by-step process to draw a case diagram. That instantly changed my mood as my doubts were getting slowly cleared by the content of the study guide. I wish the lectures would have more detail and less diagram so students can understand the topic well because what i think is that too much diagrams just don't seem to be meaningful and would create more doubts.
The only thing i found important or useful in week 6 lecture was some guidance and handy information from the lecturer on how to do the assignment which is due in a few days. Like always whenever i do not understand fully the lecture I look forward to the tutorial to help me clear my doubts and understand the topic better.
To my amazement, i found the lecturer in the first hour of the tutorial explaining us how to construct Context Diagram and Data Flow Diagrams(DFD). I don't know how but somehow it slipped out of my mind that Yeap Boon Han was coming....hmmm... must've been the stress of 3 assignments to submit in a few days.... He helped us step by step in making the diagram and i was able to understand the concept behind making a context diagram and a DFD. But i have to still admit these are complex diagrams and require solid understanding to be able to construct them properly.
Sadly due to lack of time the lecturer could not help us create the event table for week 6 tutorial. I was very disappointed since i wanted to enhance my understanding on creating event tables and understanding their elements in detail to help me do my assignment 1a but now i have to do everything on my own.... :(
Once the first hour ended the tutor was reinforcing what the lecturer had discussed about earlier and i was patiently now waiting for the class to end since it felt like a really long day.
Class ends........... Work on Assignment 1a beginzzzzzz.........
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