The Experience Granth

---- The enriching experience GRANTH 1.0 ---

Experiences with Granth Project as a step in learning Object Oriented
approach to Software Engineering.

Instructor: Ayman Abdel - Hamid

Dept. of Computer Science

Lamar University,

Team: Anjali Singh, Rajesh Lal, Bhaskar Reddy, Nivedita Despande, Srinivas
Vandraj.

Introduction

The Project Granth 1.0 is all about building of an online library system. The
project was not just an assignment project for us. It was more of an excitement,
a challenge, a unique opportunity to implement the object oriented paradigm in a
live project. During the different phases of the project we learnt and grew with
the project. We would have to give the name of Anjali here, without her complete
dedication and hard work and quick learning ability this project could not have
been how it is today. And most of all we would like to thanks Mr. Ayman Abdel
Hamid who started us thinking in object oriented and changed the complete notion
of our programming approach. And now because of that we know how important it is
and how object oriented concepts helps a team at the later stage of software
life cycle where most of the work is required.

Granth has helped us to become software engineers rather than programmers in
the real sense.

(A typical early stage of granth - hold on
anjali J )

The
Experience

The
first day when we heard about the project Library Management system we formed a
group and the notable thing was we were just acquaintances. We hardly knew each
other. But we all had one thing in common the eagerness to implement what we
have learned in the class, and to make a world class library management system.

srinivas
and we all looking high

The
first meeting

The
first day of our meeting was just our formal introduction and the vision we all
shared for the library management system. Our dream what we want to do what we
want to achieve the goal was set informally. And that day Nivedita (the
most creative person in our team) gave the name GRANTH to our project
(which means a sacred book). And that’s how granth was born. And out of
enthusiasm I devoted a day to create a logo which everybody simply
loved.

Analysis Phase:

We
met and decided to do the project with all our dedication. We started with the
analysis phase given to us where we made some use case diagrams, state diagrams,
and scenarios. Let me tell you that Anjali and Nivedita took the
lead of designing the Scenarios Srinivas , bhaskar and me took the other
responsibilities like class diagram, state diagrams etc. at that time the
documentation we came up with is entirely different what we have now. We learned
in each and every phase. We tend to improve in each and every phase. We made a
strategy a full proof plan by dividing the work

Division of work between
the groups:

Scenarios:
Anjali and Nivedita

Use
case diagrams:
Anjali and Bhaskar

Class
Diagrams:
Nivedita and Rajesh

State
Diagram:
Nivedita and Srinivas

Logo
and Database design:
Rajesh

Test
Cases/Inspection:
Srinivas and Bhaskar

Follow
up:
Entire Team of granth

every
thing went like a clock work , After so many hours of days and night . during
the phase. we completed the phase .

Nivedita thinking hard on Objects Granth
J

Design Phase:

Okay,
let me continue then we were given the design phase where we made the sequence
diagrams, detail design, detailed class diagram etc. By this time we were
knowing each other and now we were buddies. and during this time we all were
spending a lot of time on trying to get the idea of our the object oriented
concept is applied to the real world application. It took a real tough time to
start thinking in Object oriented.

Because
most of us has experience in procedural programming. and that was real hard time
when at every stage we used to get confused why objects and what is the
implementation, And a lot of things we were doing in the design phase we
didn’t had the slightest idea about its implementation and how we will be able
to do it.

During
this phase we knew Bhaskar better, Who speaks the least among us but
whose Quality of work was so consistent that you can rely on him
completely.

Rajesh,
we got everything for the design?

Distribution

Sequence diagrams:
Anjali, Bhaskar

Detail Class Diagram:
Rajesh

Detail design: Nivedita,
Anjali

Client object: Nivedita,
Rajesh

Written report of
inspection teams: bhaskar, srinivas.

Follow up : Entire
team

Black box test
cases:

Then
came up the test cases where we came up with the black box test cases and
functional analysis. Black box test case was all about bhaskar, he was
the leader for this phase we all were following him. Srinivas was
took the active responsibility in this stage.

This was the foundation
of the coming applications we tried to identify each and every equivalence
classes and each test cases and all the possible range for all the inputs and
outputs and A regression analysis testing was done by bhaskar. the consistency
of Bhaskar’s quality work was remarkable

Entire team of granth.
But final done by bhaskar and srinivas.

Bhaskar
you are coming too hard on Granth

(Testing ………….)

We also made a blue
print of how we are going to implement all the test cases in a modular
way.

Implementation and
Integration phase:

This was the most
crucial stage of the Granth when we all first decided the language the platform
and the database. After a lot of discussion and looking into all the pros and
cons we came to conclusion to try the new technology ASP.NET and C# with
Microsoft SQL server as database. since it was supposed to be a rapid
development tool. When srinivas also tested the Mono Compiler for C #
cross platform compatibility. we were sure that we are going in the right
track.

The best performer here
was Anjali, knowing a little bit of .net myself I was suppose to learn as
well as guide everybody what to learn and how to implement things. But the
constraint of time as well as quality needed more people to dive into .Net
technologies and there came the anjali into picture. Her total dedication
and quick learning ability had surpassed all of us. in just few days she was
able to not just know all the technical details but was smoothly started making
classes and became quite comfortable with the whole environment.

.Net was just a hand away but it was not easy

That was a real boost up
for the team now we had two people knowing .net. Then we all again decided
together how exactly the classes will be implemented based on our previous phase
documents. this particular step took a bit of time when we made a transition
from the studies we have done until now and implementing into a programming
language in an object oriented way. after this work was distributed into slots.
Nivedita, Bhaskar and srinivas took responsibilities of
different classes. I was mostly working on things which needed some research and
which took more time and anjali was handling all the coding for whole of the
project.

During this time
the most remarkable thing was our friendship from mere classmates we have became
best friends , we were spending 12 hrs atleast every day on Granth all of us
together.

Who said we never
fought?

There were time when we
had friction among each other like I used to give more stress on User Interface
and Anjali wanted me to put time on functionality we used to fight like
kids. When some of the Nivedita’s brain swinging ideas resulted in, we
all busy arguing for hrs.

We agreed to disagree
J

there were even times
when we used to fight with each other over Linux and Windows the famous
Microsoft and Anti-microsoft platform wars. Where our Linux guru and geek
Srinivas was in the Anti Microsoft side and me leading the Microsoft
team. Our conversation were very educating for both and we respected each others
opinion.

Final
Documentation:

Hurry
up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No time now for any
documentation or preparation for presentation. Last few days we have to divide
the work no time for any strategies. Nivedita back tracking and
re-correcting the use cases and Scenarios, Srinivas working on the user
manual and the administrator manual, anjali busy implementing validation
controls in each user interface and testing each of them. Bhaskar Testing
finally and working closely with anjali preparing for the power point
presentation adding each and every quality points. myself creating the setup for
the project taking the backup of the database, creating Installation manual and
Read me file.. Hurry up every body we were working from 1^st evening
and this scene was at 2^nd morning 6:00 o clock . 3 hrs to go for the
presentation. documents still not ready.

Anjali what
about the validations – done, srinivas user manual is looking very professional,
Nivedita each and every particulars taken care. bhaskar ready with the
PowerPoint as well as final test cases me ready with the setup installation file
and DB in a Disk. whats the time now, oops its already 9:25 Run
!!!!!!!!!

we are in the class 5
minutes late at the last moment decided srinivas can go ahead and give the ppt
presentation and me the demo of the application. we all were into granth for so
many days that we all knew each and every details of the project so it doesn’t
matter who gave the demo. We were happy.

Granth will be able to come
up to mark ?

Now that’s what we call
a Life time experience J

Thank you

The Granth
Team.

Group 2

MY Godfather – Chapter 1

MY Godfather – Chapter 1 - Anushua
CREATION

The cyber age had struck the education center of the country… hundreds of them sprung up like mushrooms in the rain. For a crowd that rode bikes, pierced their bodies and played pool, suddenly something put them on the same ‘platform’ as their aspirational idols. Time was not as precious and chat rooms were the new meeting joint. For all you know people said “Did you check out the new punkiee448 room?”

Giving our government its due credit, it was a revolution that would make India a global super power. The power of knowledge? Whether we make steel or cultivate rice, India symbolizes knowledge. And you want to give us the power of knowledge because you think you are smart. You’ll make money while someone doesn’t know its worth? After all it’s not about a nation or a continent right. It’s about the equations that society breeds with inequality. So when the almighty US of A decided it was time they capitalized on India’s wealth opportunity, some smart ones back home realized change was here. This change dint require a tata or ambani to figure out money was easy and the one who held the resources would reap.

India is pure, rich and embraces even the wrong doers of its land. But India is tradition, it is religion and above all it is faith. We do take its cool shades, soothing rivers, breath taking mountains and colorful seas as given. Also human emotions people express by touching an elders feet or the blink of eye while passing a temple. The sacredness of marriage or a young boy shaving his head. The lowered eyelids of a bride or the sense of pride of the father. The breaking of a coconut or the red color on the forehead. The sprinkling of holy water in a new house or car. The soft “touch” of India.

A foreigner once said why do you people bathe in the Ganges and think your sins have been washed… it’s so dirty please don’t pollute it further. The sacred Indian replied it is dirty because it washes our sins! Like Jesus was crucified to take the burden of the sins of people who dint have faith. He died for people so that they could be liberated. That’s what India does for us, gives itself in totality and only gives. It isn’t angry because it has realized the power of giving. It doesn’t just touch our lives it builds them. Every brick a stepping stone and every height an achievement as we stand on our Motherland.

They say nature is god personified. Earth is a mother for an orphaned child and the sky his farther. The earth nurtures him and the sky makes him look up to what he can achieve. In India you have the force of your parents, deep rooted relations and the strength of being together. In this land of diversity as we stand on our pedestals of faith we close our eyes and feel the power. The power of our inspiration. For many its family, for some its values, for few its love, for me it’s my godfather.

The meaning of life, its beauty its thorns. The sense of achievement, the wrath of betrayal. The warmth of a womb, the cold winds of change. The poison of my sins, the eternity of my smile. The color, the touch, the power, the potential. The faith, the grief, the impeccable heart. The reason to live and give the best. For all who ever seek to rest. My world, my life for all it is ……… MY GODFATHER

For amidst this web of new generation people there was a smart guy who wanted to make a quick buck. No that was not him because he wasn’t working for money. He was the one who was honest with his work and strived to learn out of everything he did. He was there to create, to design things that was never before.

The different ways that these net cafes changed our lives; for me it was the place where i first met him. Not in a starry party or a perfect dash into each others eyes, still under the clear blue skies a composed evening. I don’t remember what he wore but what still flashes, is the swirl of the eye as far as possible from me and the turn of his head everywhere else. I could sense the discomfort of being in a position, having taken responsibility for a girl who was wronged by people not life. For taking up an ordeal to do what’s right. The girl needed to make a life and dint have a soul to guide her. She was determined and he was the messiah.
It may sound simple cause it was that way for he swears he is simple and lives by the day. He wanted to teach me whatever he knew such that i could get a chance for what i deserved. There was never a slight deviation from the goal and he was focused not on me but my work.

It started with few exercises and then an increased effort to impress the master. He felt the girl was sincere and so eager to learn “Made a com component in notepad”. As an afterthought it was to create an image but i know it was the quest to learn. So there we were in our journey of learning both along the same path, but at different milestones. That’s the place where we were at the same level in fact the only. As we went on to achieve what we had set out we became one for what we were and what we wanted to be.

But this is not about us or our love for that may be gone. Nor is it about me because i can’t think beyond me and don’t have my heart in the right place. It’s about him for he is the only truth in my life. Here i can vouch i write only what is true for its correct place in a book. When i write about him it can be only true.

There Really is Another Way

"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his
head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of
coming downstairs, but

sometimes he feels that there really is another way,

if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it"

- AA Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh"

A Common Place Diary

A Common place Diary is a record of things, we have heard and want to remember:
a proverb, a remark by a writer of unusual sensibility, a witty or wise saying,
or even silly or foolish or crass.

Simply Copying well-expressed sentence is one way of Learning to write.

In struggling to say what we are, we become what we say

By - Thomas S. Kane excerpts from The New Oxford Guide to Writing