Term 1 Week 10

In the four days of prac i had this week i advanced with my form designs and code construction. I have now finished all my form desgins, that is without colour. I have also this week got my clients database to load entered clients into the list box. This includes knowledge of the code required to open file, read fileand save file to a listbox. Through the use of the BNB Booker i have relearnt these algorithms and completed one of many tasks in my project. I have also been researching how to open the files on the computer to which an image can be imported. This is for my products form and would be a great feature to visually see what the product looks like.

Below are the rest of my forms

Through the construction of my forms i have kept good ergonomic design, that being consistency throughout, a good use of white space and appropriate sizes for tools (buttons, labels etc). From these designs i now have to implement a colour scheme and code them all to navigate and work correctly. 

Term 1 Week 8-9

During these two weeks class time has been limited due to sports carnivals and the Easter brake. However during this time i have done a folio update, copy and pasting all of my designs into my folio. I have also done a mid project Gantt chart as i stand today as well as GUI designs in Visual Basic Studio 2010. As well as these designs i have officially started coding simple button clicks.

From these two weeks i have re-learnt the properties of form designing in Visual basic and i have revised simple coding of buttons through going back and opening my BNB Booker application i created last year. Through doing this i have come familiar with the visual basic coding format once again.

   

Term 1 Week 7
During this week i have been completing algorithm after algorithm, making sure i cover every things that is needed. During this week i have effectively learnt how to create harder algorithms and how they pass data through processes. For example this included my Create New Quote algorithm and my Convert Quote to invoice algorithm, in which take different paths. I now need to load all of these pictures into my Portfolio and begin coding next week.
Below are all of my algorithms, some of these are repetitive as they run the same process, for example the sorts.

Term 1 Week 6
Since Wednesday last week i have now progressed to algorithms. Last week i finished off my structure chart, my system flowchart, my context diagram and my Data Flow diagram. This week i have finished my splash algorithm, my main form algorithm, my login algorithm, my Overall algorithm, my view products and clients database algorithms and finally my create quote algorithm. I still have a lot more algorithms to complete before commencing into the implementing stage.

From the advancement of system documentation to algorithms i have learnt a range of skills. These included what symbols to use for a further defined subroutine, the use of on form decisions and sequence logic. As for the system documentation i have learnt and discovered the correct data and symobols required for each diagram. I had to go back and refine my diagrams after forgotten data was added. I also learnt this week what data lines need to be annotated in a Data Flow Diagram as i previous thought every line needed to be, but as it turns out thats not the case.