Day Five here at New Horizons....
I have been preparing for next week's course Programming with C# with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. I am installing VMware's VMWare player. I then am installing a copy of Microsoft Vista I have inside the VM. After that I will be downloading and installing Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 Express. With this environment running I will be able to practice and study class elements.
I promised to write some about an effective user interface. The 'Interface' designed by the programmer/developer has two different elements to it that will determine it's success. Element One - what the developer heard or the Business Analyst heard and what the user feels is 'usable' and 'effective' for the job it was designed to do. Now with most web applications/sites the user is the 'visitor' that comes to the website and 'browses'. In this instance the 'user simulation' can be done by company assigned employees who typically should not know much about the application itself. With these 'simulated visitors' user feedback can be very helpful. It is important that these 'actors' can communicate well. Their written and verbal feedback is critical for a successful implementation. Once the 'website visitors' have tested and used each element of the website the programmers can then take their feedback and correct/fix/modify the website as necessary. This process can be repeated several times until the 'stakeholders' from the company agree that the website is ready for primetime.
Next week I will be discussing the ways websites can be monitored and watched 24x7 by robotic eyes you program to watch/warn and alert you to problems and potential problems.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Day Three Here at New Horizons, Waltham
Yesterday went very well also. The staff here are very knowledgeable and helpful to us new students. Today I completed the Intro to Programming Course.
It was very interesting to learn about the 'Unified Modeling Language'. I look forward to using and learning more about it. From my experience with website development this tool would have been very helpful for the projects I was involved with. In the future I hope to incorporate this important application tool into my repertoire. I think discovery is the most important developmental phase of a good application. If not properly discovered some ugly elements can come into a project, such as scope creep and under-stated resource allocation. These two elements alone can cause problems on both the developer side and the client side. Most times one of these two parties will have to absorb costs caused by the addition resources needed to complete the application. UML and Use Case Diagrams can really go a long way to a thorough and accurate Development Phase. Effective and meaningful communication between the Business Analyst and the client application users is a foundational element to a successful on-budget project. Tomorrow I will write about building an effective 'User Interface'.
Next week I begin a course in learning about Programming with Microsoft C#. The couse will be what New Horizons calls an 'On-Line Live' session where an instruction in another location leads a class virtually. The class will be an intense 5-day session.
Yesterday went very well also. The staff here are very knowledgeable and helpful to us new students. Today I completed the Intro to Programming Course.
It was very interesting to learn about the 'Unified Modeling Language'. I look forward to using and learning more about it. From my experience with website development this tool would have been very helpful for the projects I was involved with. In the future I hope to incorporate this important application tool into my repertoire. I think discovery is the most important developmental phase of a good application. If not properly discovered some ugly elements can come into a project, such as scope creep and under-stated resource allocation. These two elements alone can cause problems on both the developer side and the client side. Most times one of these two parties will have to absorb costs caused by the addition resources needed to complete the application. UML and Use Case Diagrams can really go a long way to a thorough and accurate Development Phase. Effective and meaningful communication between the Business Analyst and the client application users is a foundational element to a successful on-budget project. Tomorrow I will write about building an effective 'User Interface'.
Next week I begin a course in learning about Programming with Microsoft C#. The couse will be what New Horizons calls an 'On-Line Live' session where an instruction in another location leads a class virtually. The class will be an intense 5-day session.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Today began and ended well. Today I began a four month journey to getting certification for Microsoft Web Development. I will be taking classes in Waltham, MA at New Horizons. My goal is to merge with experience and skills in Web Management with Web Development. The focus will be on Microsoft's ASP.NET 4.0 technology. The great and long debate between the Linux folks and the Microsoft folks seems unending. The current discussion or theory floated about that I have heard is that Apache Tomcat runs more stable and can handle larger transactional volume. During my studies I hope to learn more about each technology, their pros and cons.
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