Higher – Design Notations (Revision)

Make sure you read the N5 post on design notations for examples of Structure Diagrams, Flow Charts and Pseudocode.

Wire-Framing: A wireframe can show how a website will look and how its navigations structure works; can be as simple as a rough sketch or can be a detailed design showing colour combinations and images

Entity Relationship Diagrams

Relationships can be represented graphically using an Entity-Relationship (ER) diagram.

There are many different notations for ER diagrams, we will use crow’s foot notation.
• The names of entities are written in boxes joined by straight lines.
• At the “many” end the line forks.
• At the “one” end the line it judt joins the box.

ERD

Data dictionaries

A data dictionary is a design notation used to show the fields required in each table of a relational database, including field types, validation required, etc.

dd

Thank you to C O’Toole & A Madill from Braidhurst High School for allowing me to edit and publish this here.

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