Analogy Assignment

Your assingment is to take a system and to make some analogies between it and a computer. You will need to draw a picture like the following using the graphic features in Java. Make sure that you include:

a polygon
a rectangle, oval
text and a title
colours
something new: maybe arcs, multicolour fills, dialogue boxes...

Investigation - Unit 0 Test

Analysis - Initial Direction Document

Choose one of the following systems:

bank
city
school
bee hive
solar system
ant hill
system in the human body - eg. circulatory
transportation network (trains, roads, subways, airports...)
apartment building
House of Commons (opposition, speaker, mace...)
library
hockey franchase
Your own choice - it must be a system.

Put a title on your analysis: Unit 2: Analysis for Computer Analogy

Using a chart evaluate 3-4 of the options above. Consider Input, Processing and Output in your system in your selection chart. Consider Polygon, Oval, Rectangle, Colour, Something New that you can add too. A system that allows you to use all of these things will be a good choice for your project.

	Polygon	Oval, Rectangle	Colour, Font	Something New	Input, Processing, Output in system
Bank
Library
House of commons
Apartment

Based on your chart, make a choice. Write a sentence to explain your decision.

Do some basic research on the Internet regarding your choice. (If only to find some good pictures to use for your design). Source/reference these Webpages.

Point form is a wonderful communication tool.

Design - Rough Copy

Figure out your analogies - 10 to 15 appears fairly standard. Record the computer part, the part of your system and the justification. Use point form.
Draw or create in paint a rough sketch of your system diagram.
Higher mark designs have more than one rough sketch to try out better layouts. They would also have extra analogies that were not necessarily used on your final project.

Create a list of your extra features, some suggestions follow. Make sure you provide a weblink to each one:

Arcs
Multicolour fill
Adding a picture:

//Before paint. Ship.gif must be saved in the same folder as the program
Image picture= Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit ().getImage ("ship.gif");
//Inside paint
g.drawImage (picture, 80, 200, this)

Dialog Boxes
Math Art

Code - Actual Project

Put title comments at the top of your program.
Include comments as titles of various sections of your code.
You may insert pictures from other sources to make up your final project. Source/reference any pictures you did not draw yourself at the top of your code.
Make sure there is a title. Add lots of colour to make your project visually appealing.
Each part should have a label with the real name, computer part and a BRIEF justificaiton.
Make sure that you have a polygon, oval, rectangle, colours and text. Add in some extra features for increased makes.

Reflection

Studying for the test - Study Notes and Review Questions
Peer Evaluation of your project

Last Term - Feel free to ignore this. I just don't want to loose it.

You’ve all seen biological diagrams such as:

Your first task is to find a biological diagram, source it and re-label it with parts of the computer system. You need to BRIEFLY justify each choice in the label.

An example of a new label that you might make is:

Brain/CPU – the CPU is the brain of the computer, it handles decisions and performs the calculations much like the brain.

Instead of each part being just labelled “BRAIN” or “EYE” as it was in the original diagram, it is labelled with three things:

It’s real name: BRAIN
It’s computer analogy: CPU
The justification: “the CPU is the brain of the computer….” etc.

You should be using synectics to help you make these analogies. BRAIN and CPU is actually a very boring match. CPU and FOOT, now, if you could come up with a convincing way to connect those two, that would be interesting. A suggested series of steps is to:

define each word (eg. CPU and FOOT)
come up with words that are similar to each word
describe what it would be like to “be” each word
come up with words that are opposite to each word
brainstorm a few analogies to the body of your chosen animal

In this section you should include any and all of the input and output devices we learned in class. (printers, scanners, keyboards, mice, plotters, modems, CPU, BIOS, monitor, camera, ALU, motherboard, RAM, ROM, CD-Rom, Memory Stick etc.). You can also add things like paper and power cords to make your animal/computer analogy more interesting.