Software Design and Development

Possible answers to selected activities

The syllabus identifies the following approaches: structured, prototyping, rapid applications development, end user development and a combination approach. In this situation you could argue in favour of any approach except prototyping. You should assess your answer is terms of the reasons you were able to give in support of your choice.
Your table should be easy to construct as the article conveniently goes through each step in turn. Make sure you have included the decisions Kidman had to make as part of the actions, as well as the progress he made constructing the software.
One of the critical issues to be addressed here is the opinion you have regarding images of popular people. Are they able to be used without permission? Sometimes the use is allowed if it is private use. Is a person’s website private use? Sometimes the use is allowed if it is not used in a commercial sense. Is including it on a free CD attached to a magazine a commercial use?
Another ethical issue relates to the use made of the image and whether it is positive or derogatory in nature. Was Kidman seeking to be positive about Celine Dion?
He learnt that you should always keep written records of the whole process, particularly notes relating to code. You can find details of this in the subsection of the article relating to the cheat mode.