Com S 362 --- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

		    EXERCISE 0: COURSE OBJECTIVES
                 (File $Date: 2004/08/23 05:07:19 $)

The purpose of this exercise is for you to get an overview of the
course and to tell the staff what you would like to get out of it.

As with all exercises, this is to be done individually, not in teams.
And it is due the day this topic is planned to be discussed in class, unless
specified otherwise (see the syllabus at:
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cs362/syllabus.shtml). 

As with all exercises, you have two choices for doing the work. You
can either:

  - complete it as specified or
  - write down questions or problems that you had in trying to
    complete it.

If you write down questions or problems you have, these should be
detailed enough so that we can tell that you have read the materials
and thought about them. During the class where this
exercise is discussed, you should try to get help with these by
explaining what you did and what your problems or confusions are.
Don't be shy; there will be other people with the same problem, and
everyone can learn by discussing these issues.

1. [What is Analysis? What is Design]

Read chapter 1 of Larman's book "Applying UML and Patterns"

Write down for an answer for these questions:

  a. What is the difference between analysis and design?
  b. Why is analysis important?  How can it save money or make
     programming more efficient?
  c. Why is design important?  How can it save money or make
     programming more efficient?

2. [What do you want out of the class?]

Browse through the books for the course.  Look over the website for
the course

    http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cs362

and in particular look at the objectives planned for the course.

Write down for an answer for these questions:

     a. What do you want to be able to do or achive after this course
        is over?  Write down a list of all these things, and rank them
        from most to least important.
     b. What are the key problems you see facing you in achieving
        these goals?

3. [Stakeholders]

Write down for an answer for these questions:

     a. Besides yourselves and the course staff, are there any other
     people or institutions that have a stake in the outcomes of your
     education in this class?  Make a list of who they are and what
     are their interests?
     (Hint: think about who's paying and getting money, and about
     parts of governments involved.)

WHAT TO HAND IN

You should have at the beginning of class, written answers to the
above questions (or written out questions and problems you encountered
for each part).  Make sure your name is on these.

ADDITIONAL READINGS

If you have time, you might want to read the introduction to 
Martin Fowler with Kendall Scott's book "UML Distilled Third Edition:
A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language." 
This will give you more insight into object-oriented analysis and
design.

What this exercise encompasses is part of the inception phase of our
"project" or learning the course material.  You might want to look at
section 7.4 of Larman's book for a detailed inception vision document,
or at the Course's StickSync project for a more extensive example of
such a document.