Thursday, June 27, 2013

Activity #2

1. What did N.U.R.V. claim it could do for society?
Connect people by the technology.

2. What type of technology was used to try to achieve their goals?

They used programmation, computers, cables, satellites, CDs.

3. Explain in a complete paragraph what Open Source is .

Open source is when the source code is free and available to everyone. It can be distributed, downloaded or modified by everyone. 

4. How are they connecting the buildings to transmit data? 

They connected the buildings by cables and antennas to transmit data.

5. Explain with your words what data compression is.

Data compression is when you reduce the file size of a specific amount of data. 

6. Why was data compression so important for the company?

Because their programs work had to work with a large amount of data and receive many information data.

7. Explain in a complete paragraph how Milo was able to discover the murder of his friend.

Milo discovered how his friend was killes because he with the IP addres can access to the computer and with the deep investigation he found videos that were evidences of how his friend was killed and how, because he with the access of the computer can found that a camera was installed on the friend garage to watch him everytime in order to stole his code.

8. Explain in a complete paragraph the expression: “software engineering is binary”

It means that software engineering is like a perfect programmation so the study of it requires perfection and extreme knowledgge in order to have a successfull program so thats why NURV's owner always said that is to be alive or dead because if your program is good you have success and if its not you are dead, because you loose many times period in order to do it.

9. Create a conceptual map in order to explain the relationship of at least 10 main characters from the movie. Give a brief description for each one. Be creative




Activity - Anti Trust

I would have the same reaction of Milo because fristable Teddy was his best friend, so when he discovered that people of NURV robbed the program to his best friend and kill him, he started to find out what was happening. Also we as human beings always want to find the truth and discover what is happening with something that for us is strange.

The actitude of Milo was correct because he with the connection of all satellites joined together he show the truth about NURV to everyone, so everyone can see what the organization was doing in reality. Also i would go frist to the police and reveal all the truths that NURV were doing. Milo was so intelligent that he save the infromation in two CDs and gave one to his other friend to publish all the information via the satellite.

As a conclusion in the movie i would show scenes about the NURV's owner go into jail and that Milo stays with Rebecca because she loved him and she helps him even if at the beginning she lied to him.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Operation Stage


Implementation Stage

IMPLEMENTATION

In the implementation stage the software developers start to write the code, then the hardware people will develop the equipment necessary to develop the project, the testing team develop the test plans in order to prove if the project is successfull or not. During this stage in the testing the developer can realize a fuctional testing and data testing. The data testing contains normal, abnormal and extreme data. The comp[any have to do a data conversion in order to convert the data stored in the old sysem to the new one, so the files would not be lost and also they can save time during this conversion. If the program present any problem the developer should solve the probelms and check if the program accomplish with the requirements of the user. With this the program should work perfectly and should be tested so in order to implement a new system, the company the employees need to be trained, they need a dedicated help line, employees can ring to get answers and also with the help of a user manual they can be trained as well.

DATA CONVERSION

Characteristics of a project plan

* Testing:
1. The system testing is carried out on a finished, complete, and integrated system to check the specified conditions and requirements.
2. Is performed to explore the functionality of a software system. 
3. You can integrate testing and unit testing, the system testing is carried out on the whole software system as one unit. 
4. helps to identify mistakes, in order to correct it.
5. Is carried out before to deliver the end project to the user.

*Implementation
1. The system should be already tested.
2. Software developers write the code.
3. Install the hardware and software into production and run it.
4. Train the end user.
5. Hardware people develop test plans.

*Client and end-user evaluation
1. Check with the client if all the program accomplish with his/her specifications.
2. The training of the end user have to be successfully completed.
3. Review to accomplish the objectives.
4. Check if the client likes the program.
5. Meet with the client so he can decide if the program is useful or not

Classmates research:

* Investigation of existing systems
1.  Examine procedures as they were carried out.
2. Make interviews to recover comments from the users of the system-
3. Do questionnaires in order to make a set of questions.

* Feasibility study
1.  Check if the project is possible to do or not.
2. Enables to adequate resources and times frames to solves issues.
3. Check if the project can be develop in the period that the user wants.

* Requirement specification
1.  Define the list of resources that are going to be used to the development of the project.
2. Is a complete description of all the equipment that are going to be used.
3. With the requirements established you can go to the next step. 

* Project schedule
1. See if the project can be accomplished.
2. Should have a work breakdown structure.
3. It should be constantly updated and accomplish the due dates.

* Project design
1. Support the objectives stated.
2. Identify the requirements of the user.
3. Make a prototype to show the user if he/she approve it or not.

* Product development and technical documentation
1. Provide enough information for the user.
2. Is written by technical writers in which they translate the steps to a technical documentation.
3. The intended recipent is the en user and the administrator.


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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Research

1. Describe 4 essential components of a project plan.

- Problem: choose a problem and define the problem to solve. 
- State objectives: define the result of the project, what you are going to obtain.
- Specifications: provide the requirements specification in order to do a project.
- Schedule:  develop a schedule in order to complete all tasks necessary to achieve project objectives and deliver.

2. State 5 steps developed in the implementation stage.
   
   1.- train the users to the new system.
   2.- test the program if is successful or not.
   3.- translate data from the old system to the new one.
   4.- incorporate contingency planning into project implementation plan
   5.- provide user support manuals.


3. Explain with 2 different examples what data conversion is.

Data conversion is the conversion of computer data from one format to another.
    *Examples:
   1.- A DOCX document can be converted to DOC document.
   2.- A PPTX presentation can be converted to PPT document.


4. Find two newspaper articles where you can evidence how enterprises care about employees training in order to use their IT systems. Write a short summary about them and publish its URL.

  1.-  The director of business products and services for mobile phone giant Vodafone saids that nowadays people problem is how to configure his or her smartphone, what he said is that the mobile organizations can not leave the configuration part to the end user to do their self configuration, that is important to think that they have should train the user as well in order to the users can make a good use of their smartphones.

  2.- A report of the National Foundation for Educational Research shows that most teachers of an school in UK despite more than 10 years of training teachers in technological area did not have a good knowledge about technology so now the school is trying to do a staff development mutual support among teachers using computers and support structures within school and with this they will help teachers to become good users of technology.


References:

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Design Information

1. Hardware and Software have to be clearly defined.
2. Describe benefits of the program and the program specification.
3. Design the components of the system like the overall structure, manual procedures. 
4. Plan how the design it will be, all the requirements that are going to be used.
5. Training requirements are translated into preliminary and detailed designs.

Define Prototype

Prototype: one of the examples units manufactured of a product, which is tested so that the design can be changed if necessary before the product is manufactured commercially.

Rereference:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Prototypes