PowerBuilder Design Concepts Tutorial

Design Concepts tutorial provides an introduction to PowerBuilder design and object-oriented development.

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This course is for programmers who want to learn about the PowerBuilder development environment and start creating PowerBuilder applications. Our Design Concepts tutorial offer unique benefits unavailable from other self-paced training vendors. Each course is developed using a rigorous set of criteria that includes quality content, interaction, graphics, and interspersed questions, making learning fun, interesting, and effective.

• Analyze application requirements
• Create a logical data model for an application
• Use PowerBuilder database tables for a data model
• Use object-oriented development techniques

• Analyzing the Requirements
  • Examining the systems development life cycle
  • Reviewing requirements

• Creating a Logical Data Model
  • Assigning attributes to entities
  • Comparing data models and databases
  • Examining normalization
  • Refining cardinality

• Creating a Data Model Database
  • Creating a database
  • Customizing and connecting your database

• Creating Database Tables
  • Creating tables
  • Using table properties sheets

• Using Database Tables
  • Viewing tables in the database painter
  • Adding foreign keys
  • Modifying tables
  • Right-clicking in the database painter

• Using Table Data
  • Manipulating with the manipulation window
  • Manipulating with the DBA painter
  • Manipulating with spreadsheets

• Understanding Object-Oriented Development
  • Defining object-oriented development
  • Comparing classes objects and instances
  • Examining object components
  • Defining inheritance

• Features of Object-Oriented Software
  • Examining encapsulation
  • Defining polymorphism

• Instructional steps -- walk through a procedure
• Exercises -- try it out
• Notes - See additional information related to the topic in the text
• Tips - See a different, faster, or easier way of doing something
• Quick References - See a quick reference guide to the features introduced in a chapter
• Details - Display more detailed information related to the current topic
• Hotwords - See related information
• Navigation Bar - Maneuver easily through the courses
• Topics and Index -- with searching feature and hyper-links
• Printable Exercises - PDF downloadable files
• Sample Application Files - PDF downloadable files
• Skill Assessment - can be used for pre and post-testing -- tracking first try, best try and grade - if passed, green check mark will appear as 'mastered' - hyperlinks to units within the course to go back and re-take a certain unit again. Use as pre-test to determine which topics you want to focus on and to go directly into that unit.

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