Introduction to Gen

Objective

This course gives an introduction to Gen and the way it is used in application development.
On completion of the course the student will understand the concepts, techniques and diagrams of Gen. The student will learn how an application is built using Gen. He will have built a basic application.

This will enable the student to communicate with the developers using a common Gen language. Therefore this training is meant for anyone who is involved in application development using Gen, like business users, project leaders, analysts etc.

Contents

The course includes the following subjects:

• What is Gen?
• Why and how is it used?
• Concepts of Gen
• Data modeling
• Process modeling
• System Design
• Procedures and Views
• Windows and Action Diagrams
• Generation of an application
• Gen encyclopedia
• Projects using Gen
• The role of the business user

After discussion of the theory many hands on exercises show the use of the Gen diagrams which are used during development.

Duration

The standard duration is 2 days.

Prerequisites

The student has to be familiar with the concepts of system development.