April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
11h 50m
English
You can approach application design from many points of view. Two effective methods are user-centric and data-centric. A user-centric approach focuses on what the user needs to do and how the program can get it done. Understanding these helps define the application’s user interface and how the program will work with the data. That in turn helps define the format of the data, and thus the database.
A data-centric approach concentrates on the data itself. It asks what data the program will need and what data is available. It then builds a design for the database and treats the application as a user interface for the data.
Although both of these approaches are effective, they work best when you use them together. ...
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