[Year 12 SofDev] Exam discussion - Edited

[Kevin Feely]

Hi Everyone,
I have added in my response to Adrian's kick off - see below
regards
kev

Adrian Janson wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> A couple of comments:
>
> Section C, Q1.
>
> I know that there are ‘reasons’ why the Bakers have been included as 
> an entity (which I don’t agree with – BTW). However, in talking to my 
> students, this has created some confusion regarding what the missing 
> entity should be. Many of my students felt that ‘Customers’ would have 
> been the correct answer under other circumstances, however, as 
> ‘Drivers’ were also described in the case study as providing data to 
> the system (in a similar way to the Bakers), they felt that ‘Drivers’ 
> was correct. What do others think about this?
>
Iam happy with Bakers as an entity - it can be justified, if I had to 
mark a student who had put them in as part of the system Iam sure they 
could argue that successfully.
I would have put drivers as the missing entity. they interact with the 
system. Customers interact with the drivers so for customers to be 
correct you would have to indicate that the drivers were inside the 
"system" - unfortunately there is no space in the answer to show what 
you regard as part of the system
BUT IMHO since the bakers were an entity it is not logical that then the 
drivers would be. By putting bakers as an entity you can draw the 
conclusion that sebastian is "the system"

> Q3b.
>
> Using the 2D array was a good inclusion which I applaud, however, the 
> question is incorrect – and has the indexes the wrong way around! 
> Kayla has decided to test 1 bread product and 3 ingredients – but in 
> the test data the array indexes are (1,1), (2,1) and (3,1) – instead 
> of (1,1), (1,2) and (1,3).
>

Does it not just depend on how you define your rows and columns? Yes 
yours is more logical, but i can work with the way it is on the exam

> Cheers,
>
> Adrian
>

cheers kev
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