CS 410 Colorado Technical University Software Design Discussion

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:

Designers on a software project must have a well thought out and well-executed design; therefore, many choose a structured methodology to approach their system development life cycle (SDLC) or object-oriented approach. Designers may decide to take an object-oriented (OO) approach to systems/software development, which is more iterative in nature and incremental. Compare and contrast the structured design approach with the OO approach to systems/software development. Ensure you also respond to at least 2 others and build on their responses to these topics.

As an alternative discussion topic, design patterns, which are not complete designs that can drive code, provide the base for how to solve complex project and system issues. Describe some of the following patterns below and how they deal with the creation of objects, identification of common communications patterns between objects, provide identified relationships between entities, or patterns of organizational decision making.

• Creational design patterns
• Structural design patterns
• Behavioral design patterns
• E-business design patterns

Ensure you also respond to at least 2 others and build on their responses to these topics.

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?