My 2c worth: I have found nothing that comes close to Visiomodeller in its ability to create CSD's from the elementary fact sentences including nested fact types.
It also encourages the use of population checks which for ORM are the real secret to success. The issue now though is getting it to function under Windows 7. While ORM may not be 'industry standard' (many still use ER), I believe it is an excellent design tool at this stage of the development of students considering Information Systems as a career. I believe it is worth keeping. Cheers, Paul [cid:[email protected]] Paul Herring M.Sc (Physics)., B.Sc., Dip. Tchg., MACS (PCP), Cert IV (TAA40104) St Peters Lutheran College PO Box 111 66 Harts Road Indooroopilly QLD 4068 Ph: 07 3377 6547 (Direct) Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web: www.stpeters.qld.edu.au<http://www.stpeters.qld.edu.au/> Lutheran Church of Australia trading as St Peters Lutheran College. CRICOS Provider: 00516E This message may include Commercial-in-Confidence material. The message and any attachments are intended for the named recipients and should not be copied, reproduced or forwarded to another party without prior approval of the author. The views expressed by the author may not represent the views of The Lutheran Church of Australia or St Peters Lutheran College. If this message has been received in error, please notify the author and delete the e-mail immediately. Thank You. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Fenton Sent: Friday, 19 February 2010 7:59 AM To: QSITE ICT Teachers Subject: Re: [qsiteict] VisioModeler G'day Jonathan, When you say you use DIA for CSD work, do you mean you use it for ORM with entity object and value objects etc to create a full conceptual schema? Do the students manually create every object and role on the diagram and join the roles and put the role descriptions in the boxes...? If so, then this is why I like the 'decrepit' VisioModeler - it is the best software around for creating a CS diagram directly from fact sentences AND mapping the CS straight to a data dictionary. All of its functionality has been ported to Visio, but somehow only the Enterprise Architect version. They've left us educators out in the cold with the now unsupported VisioModeler. If DIA requires the creation of the diagrams by hand, then I may as well use the diagramming functions in MS Word 2007. I have downloaded DIA and will have a closer look at it. Thanks for all the tips. Cheers David Ô¿Ô¬ International Education Services On 18 February 2010 22:50, Jonathan Klupp <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I use DIA a lot for 11 and 12 IPT in our CSD work. It is very simple to use (students are producing real work quickly) , and it actually works as a full function program for free. I haven't had as much luck using it for NS diagrams. Has anyone used DIA for NS diagrams (algorthim work). Is there a template that works that people know of? As an aside, for NS drawing, I have found that NSD Editor (NSD.EXE) is a BRILLIANT start, but the version I have (at least) will not do CASE statements for example, so its use is limited. Anyone know how to work around this? Jonathan Klupp Faith Lutheran College, Redlands --- You are currently subscribed to qsiteict as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://apps-7.edna.edu.au:83/u?id=705945.2f52f7f497f4938cf7c1e0de11df47e7&n=T&l=qsiteict&o=1634350 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-1634350-705945.2f52f7f497f4938cf7c1e0de11df4...@edna.edu.au<mailto:leave-1634350-705945.2f52f7f497f4938cf7c1e0de11df4...@edna.edu.au> --- You are currently subscribed to qsiteict as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://apps-7.edna.edu.au:83/u?id=705742.d42ea647e85be3beb25392eea1a77f09&n=T&l=qsiteict&o=1634830 or send a blank email to leave-1634830-705742.d42ea647e85be3beb25392eea1a77...@edna.edu.au
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