[Year 12 IT Apps] Quick Quiz - Decision trees

Tue Apr 8 12:10:05 EST 2008

Design Trees...LOGICAL, for mine. It is, or they are, in simplistic terms, an electronic design tool(in this case?) representing a 'logical' levelling of ideas or demonstrating a form of hierarchy.
Like some of the other responses, it is not representing a physical layout of say, a network in a building such as a blueprint which to me, represents a 'physical' design tool (albeit on paper).

That's my take on that one.

25c worth..

Kent.

Kent Beveridge,
I.T. co-ordinator
St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
Horsham
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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark Kelly
Sent: Tue 4/8/2008 8:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Quick Quiz - Decision trees

Thanks, Andrew and Robert.  I Googled for "Logical design tools" and it
came up with zilch.  It seems to be a concept unique to VCE IT  :-)

On a similar note, the accepted industry SDLC seems to be rather at odds
with the one in our study design - for example, "feasibility study"
usually appears as a separate initial step, and "maintenance" is usually
  the last step.

I occasionally get this nagging feeling that we're playing in a theory
world that doesn't quite match the reality of industry.

Timmer-Arends wrote:
> Hello Mark
>
> all of the below plus DeMarco considered decision trees/tables to be one
> way of specifying the actual process of a dfd 'process bubble' (ie, once
> you've unpacked all of the system to the lowest level of the dfd, you
> then have to specify what processing actually takes place, or is to take
> place, to transform the input to output - he called them minispecs).
> Therefore logical design tool is probably the best classification.
>
> Regards
> Robert T-A
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> Mark
> To me logical is what helps to make the decision clearer. I.e. how is
> information flowing not what the information is flowing through.
>
> A physical tool is about what is required. What devices.
>
> I.e. the decisions about the house I want to build VS the physical plans
> and wiring?
>
> So I would go with logical design.
> (but happy to be proven wrong)
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> Would you clever people categorise a decision tree as a logical or
> physical design tool?
>
> It seems to me to be the former since it's formulating the desired
> behaviour of equipment but is not trying to set out how the behaviour
> will be carried out or how the system will be built.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
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