Session 3: Data Flows - Integrating Systems and Structures

In this session we will review the Orders assignment and begin our discussion of Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs). We'll use a presentation describing the theory and practice of data flow analysis.

• DFD2096.ppt provides copies of the slides as a PowerPoint file (n.b. 349k - if you are downloading over a modem, this may take a few minutes. There are 28 slides in the presentation).
• DFD2096.zip has a compressed version of the presentation (58.9k). If you have WinZip or PKZip, you might consider downloading this one first. (If you don't have WinZip, you might consider downloading it off the Net at the earliest opportunity...).

Tentative Agenda:

6:30pm	Introductions, questions, and other buffer activity for those of us stuck in traffic.
6:35	Review Orders assignment.
7:05	Discuss Data flow analysis.
7:35	Review DFDs and ERDs in the context of overall system design.
7:50	Discuss Internet Orders assignment.
8:05	Break; Move to Olin Lab.
8:10	Work on Orders (questions) and Internet Orders assignment.
9:00	Adjourn.