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[JayWalker]

Software

What do you think we need to know for this exam?

Also, why is Visual Basic considered a CASE tool?

 

[JayWalker]

Since sunnys complaining about us spamming on this forum, ill just keep posting my questions under the same thread..

How do Case Tools create Documentation?

 

[neuro_logik]

Its not a CASE tool, it is a event driven programming language

 

[JayWalker]

Well according to the notes in resources by R Ashpole it is a Case Tool which i was confused about. Also::

"Variables form part of the data dictionary of a project. There are 6 considerations for each variable:
i. Entity = data item (as in DFD or context diagram)
ii. Data type
iii. Identifier name (variable name)
iv. Alias (temp rename if required)
v. Processes (in IPO or DFD) which use these variables
vi. Pre set values, restrictions etc"

What is the difference between the Identifier name (iii) and Alias (iv). And could you give me an example of a Pre Set Value? (vi)

 

[JayWalker]

Well according to the notes in resources by R Ashpole it is a Case Tool which i was confused about. Also::

"Variables form part of the data dictionary of a project. There are 6 considerations for each variable:
i. Entity = data item (as in DFD or context diagram)
ii. Data type
iii. Identifier name (variable name)
iv. Alias (temp rename if required)
v. Processes (in IPO or DFD) which use these variables
vi. Pre set values, restrictions etc"

What is the difference between the Identifier name (iii) and Alias (iv). And could you give me an example of a Pre Set Value? (vi)

Dont all answer at once This thread is like a ghost town, no one posts in the SDD forum

 

[neuro_logik]

Well according to the notes in resources by R Ashpole it is a Case Tool which i was confused about. Also::

"Variables form part of the data dictionary of a project. There are 6 considerations for each variable:
i. Entity = data item (as in DFD or context diagram)
ii. Data type
iii. Identifier name (variable name)
iv. Alias (temp rename if required)
v. Processes (in IPO or DFD) which use these variables
vi. Pre set values, restrictions etc"

What is the difference between the Identifier name (iii) and Alias (iv). And could you give me an example of a Pre Set Value? (vi)

An identifier is a name chosen by a programmer to represent a specific element like variables, arrays, files, records, subroutines, modules etc. and cant be reserved words within the language.

A preset value would be a constant value such as 1,2,3,4, pi, 0 and values assigned by the programmer such as country = Germany

 

[JayWalker]

So a constant value would be like an integer used for calculations such as averages??

An then what is an Alias?

 

[neuro_logik]

So a constant value would be like an integer used for calculations such as averages??

An then what is an Alias?

A constant value is a value that doesnt change like pi.

I don't know what sunny meant about Alias. Alias I think is the same as an identifier, in which you give a specific name to a certain element like variables and stuff which will relate to the program and the value it is assigned like age = 69

The variable with the Alias/Identifier age with the value 69

 

[JayWalker]

So basically, a constant value such as pi would only be used in programs calculating Areas etc?

 

[Terra_Niux]

Visual Basic has case tools within its IDE, it's not ITSELF a case tool.

 

[JayWalker]

IDE?
Case Tools such as Versioning I have witnessed within VB but nothing else...

 

[xeriphic]

yer VB consist of CASE tools which assist developers in producing the software package more effectively

 

[JayWalker]

Like its ability to transfer itself to an individual EXE file?

 

[Terra_Niux]

IDE = Integrated Development Environment

 

[xeriphic]

it's WYSIWYG interface design, this provides easier programming for the developers, rathers than like C++ which is pure coding

 

[JayWalker]

xeri, because it is a WYSIWYG development, does this mean it is object oriented?

 

[Terra_Niux]

Visual Basic can be how you want it, I have a friend who is creating an IRCd and it's purely code.

C++ it's not ALWAYS purely code

 

[Terra_Niux]

Visual Basic is Object Oriented

 

[JayWalker]

Lol ok well youve confused me now, i only wanted to know how it included case tools, not about C++ or C-- or A+ or F+ :giddy:

 

[JayWalker]

Visual Basic is Object Oriented

ok thanks -------------------