Exercise 1

Identifying Objects

Purpose: To start thinking about identifying objects.

Exercise: Prepare a list of the kinds of object you would expect one or two of the following systems to handle:

Good candidates for objects are:

Nouns that you get when you describe the system, what it does, what the user can do with it, etc.
Other systems, users or devices that the system needs to interact with.
Things or events that have to be remembered.

Remember that the purpose of the exercise is to start thinking in terms of objects, not to find the "optimal solution" to each of these problems.

You will obtain more benefit from these exercises if you work in groups.

Spend 20 to 40 minutes.

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