Techniques for Representing the Design of the Solution

Karina Joyce E. Limbo

Design of Solutions

• Acquiring• Inputting• Validating• Storing• Processing• Retrieving• Outputting• Communicating• Disposing of data

Representing a Solution

• The choice of technique is influenced by several factors..including the nature of the problem, the software to be used and the level of expertise of the users..

Techniques for representing solutions

Symbols using the Flowchart

Flowcharts

• It should always have a start point and a single clearly identified end point, or series of end points.

Pseudocode

• It uses what is known as ‘structured English’ to represent the steps in a solution.

STARTACQUIRE (collect) dataINPUT dataVALIDATESTORE dataRETRIEVE dataPROCESS dataOUTPUT informationCOMMUNICATE informationDISPOSE of information or data as needed

END

Structure Charts

• It shows the overview of the solution to problems that involve various levels or processing options.

Layout design sheets

• It includes a range of detail on a design sheet: name of sheet , date of construction, name of author, colors, position of text, input and display fields, action and command buttons, links and navigation.

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