CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fortran, Sql, Virtual Keyboard

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

A system: a collection of pieces working together to achieve a common goal. An information system: includes data, people, procedures, hardware, and software. Waterfall- one step must be completed before the next begins. Scope creep: an ever changing set of requests from the clients for additional features as they wait longer and longer to see a working prototype. Programming: the process of translating a task into a series of commands a computer will use to perform that task. Involves identifying which parts of a task a computer can perform, describing those tasks and translating this description into the language spoken by the computer. Describing the problem: complete description of the problem: problem statement: description of what tasks the computer program must accomplish and how the program will execute these tasks and response to unusual situations. In order to make a problem statement you need data, information (what you need to have at the end), and a method (process).