UML

UML

Unified Modelling Language (UML) allows us to describe and document elements of knowledge that map well into the object oriented paradigm. In UML v1.0 nine types of diagrams are described: UML Use Case Diagram UML Activity Diagram UML Object Diagram UML Class Diagram...
OOA/OOD Related Links

OOA/OOD Related Links

The following links have been useful whilst trying to understand, research and teach Object-Oriented related topics. Going to conferences was a great way to meet people that were facing the same set of problems and discuss solutions. This eventually got me into being...
PR1 Notes for Java

PR1 Notes for Java

Unit Title Lectures 1 Introduction 2 2 Elementary Programming 2 3 Conditionals 1 4 Loops 2 5 Functions – Methods 2 6 Arrays 3 7 Classes & Objects 4 8 Strings 1 9 Files & I/O 2 10 Gui...
PR1 Notes for Java

Java Free Online Course

The best way to learn java is to practice. You can start by studying the following slides in combination with javasoft’s tutorial and Java’s apis. Each module has exercises that you should try to solve. 1st day, Basic Java, IntroductionIntroductionJava’s Syntax &...
Quotations & Proverbs

Quotations & Proverbs

The way to deal with an impossible task is to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each one of them into tricky jobs, and each one of them… (Terry Pratchet, Truckers) Check...
CAA, CBA and Diagram Links

CAA, CBA and Diagram Links

And here are some links that have been important to the CAA,CBA, and diagrammatic side of my work. For a full review you can check the second chapter of my phd dissertation “Diagram Based Computer Based Assessment. ACM Digital Library proceedings by subject ACM SIGCSE...
Research Links on Diagrams

Research Links on Diagrams

Here you can find some links that I’ve found very important in my work in diagrams. If you are interested in diagrams then you can check my research on Diagram-Based Computer Based Assessment and my diagrammatics course! An Interactive Proof of Pythagoras’ theorem...
Spirals

Spirals

The simplest algorithm and you can get great looking graphics. More than that – you get graphics that are full of abstract, archetypical, almost mystical knowledge. Let me explain myself… The algorithm is very simple. We loop to find the coordinates for a circle’s...
Transactional Analysis

Transactional Analysis

I find Transactional Analysis fascinating. Not so much for the theory behind “the games people play” as for the three-part model that help us categorize communication. The next four videos give an excellent crash course on the TA model. To continue learning about...
It’s a 10-Dimensional World.. But Why not 11? or 12?

It’s a 10-Dimensional World.. But Why not 11? or 12?

String Theory tells us we live in a 10 dimensional world. It’s easy to understand the first four dimensions, three for space and one for time. However, it gets progressively harder to conceptualise each dimension above. It’s tough enough to reach 10 and then why stop...