SDP Project Step 1

This activity is the first step in the Software Design and Programming Project (SDP). You are now at a point to choose the programming project you want to complete. This project is not just going to be a lot of writing code or flow diagrams. You will analyze a problem, look at what functional requirements the program needs to meet, and plan the development and test activities. You'll also build and test that program. For more information on the SDP, please view the Software Design and Programming Project page.

Project Definition and Requirement Analysis

Select your project and define it. Identify the needs of your user: Time period increments, categories, items, simple assumptions, etc.

This is a good time to think about the data files that your project will need. What does the project need to "remember" when the computer is turned off? How does its data grow, day by day, as the user runs the program? Make notes of this as you go through each step; there may be more needs to remember (to file away) information that you'll discover as you go. You can create a simple pseudocode prototypes to show how your program will work.

Questions to answer about your proposed project:

• What is the system?
• What does it do?
• What data does it take in and produce?
• How (broadly) does the user get work done with it?