Advanced Object Oriented Analysis of Hard Problems using UML

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Who Am I? (if you like to know)

Lecture 2: Course Introduction – Imagine If No One Used The Same Terms For Any Things

Lecture 3: A Concept Map of Udemy and General Applications Areas Of Concept Mapping

Lecture 4: Course Goals And Organisation

Lecture 5: Two Ways To Complete The Course – Theory First or Practice First

Chapter 2: The Cognitive Foundation Of Concept Mapping

Lecture 1: Introduction To The Cognitive Foundation Of Concept Mapping

Lecture 2: We Have Three Memory Systems In Our Brains

Lecture 3: Semantic Memory And Knowledge Persistence

Lecture 4: Brains Love Visualizations!

Lecture 5: How Does Creative Thinking Work?

Lecture 6: Let's Eat Our Own Dog Food: A Concept Map Of The Cognitive Foundation

Chapter 3: Philosophical foundations of conceptual analysis – introduction

Lecture 1: The Whole Philosophy Section In Just One Lecture!

Lecture 2: What Happens In A Room When We Visualize Our Concepts Together?

Lecture 3: Ogden's Triangle – "This Fellow Isn't Insane; We Are Only Doing Philosophy"

Lecture 4: Four Theories Of The Concept of Concept – How Hard Could It Be?

Lecture 5: The Classical Theory About Concepts – How It All Began

Lecture 6: The Prototype Theory About Concepts – Is A Dove More Of A Bird Than A Penguin?

Lecture 7: The Theory Theory About Concepts – Is It Even Possible To Have The Same Concept?

Lecture 8: A Pluralism About Concepts – Perhaps Many Theories Are Needed

Lecture 9: Important! You Now Have Two Options On How To Proceed!

Chapter 4: Philosophical Foundations Of Conceptual Analysis – Continued

Lecture 1: The Intentionality Of The Mind – "My Adding Machine Understands Nothing"

Lecture 2: Summary So Far – We Have Concepts In Intentional States In Our Minds!

Lecture 3: The Network And The Background – "The Whole Hurly-Burly Of Human Actions"

Lecture 4: Collective Intentionality – I Think That You Think That I Think That You Think..

Lecture 5: Summary – First Corner – Concepts In Intentional States About Others' States

Lecture 6: Language – Second Corner – Communicate Your Meaning

Lecture 7: Terms and Propositions – The Signified and The Signifier

Lecture 8: Generativity and Compositionality – The Key Mechanisms Of Any Language

Lecture 9: Sentence Meaning Is Not Enough! "Yes I Can; I'd Just Use My Legs!"

Lecture 10: "The King of France is Bald" Is False,But So Is "The King Of France is Not Bald"

Lecture 11: The Indeterminacy Of Translation – "Lo! An Undetached Rabbit-Part!"

Lecture 12: Speech Acts – "Sorry, I Can't. My Mother-In-Law Won't Allow Me!"

Lecture 13: Meaning Through Speech Acts – "There Is a Fluffy Mouse Catcher On The Mat"

Lecture 14: Five Types Of Speech Acts – All You Need!

Lecture 15: The Strange Thing About Declarations About Declarations – We Create Our World

Lecture 16: Steven Pinker on – Language as a Window into Human Nature

Lecture 17: Summary – Second Corner – We Refer To Concepts In Our Minds Using Speech Acts

Lecture 18: The World Of Objects and Facts – Third Corner In The Triangle

Lecture 19: The Ontological Nature Of Objects – Let's Get Deep!

Lecture 20: Properties And Relations – "Being In Love" Is A Special Kind Of Relation

Lecture 21: Facts And Truth – "The Cat Is Not On The Mat" Is Also A Fact

Lecture 22: Social Facts – Objectively True Knowledge About Subjectively Relative Phenomena

Lecture 23: Status Functions – A Rock, A Table And A President Are Very Different Things

Lecture 24: Summary – The Triangle In A New Light

Chapter 5: Lessons Learned By Our Deeper Knowledge About How We Create Our World

Lecture 1: Lessons Learned – Overview

Lecture 2: Meaning Breakdown – Do They Agree And Do They Think They Agree?

Lecture 3: Slow Knowledge Acquisition – There Is So Much Time To Save

Lecture 4: Language Legacy – When Language Prevents Strategic Breakthroughs

Lecture 5: Rigid Information Systems – Envision Your Future When Conceptualizing

Lecture 6: Creative Leap Catalyst – See The Hidden Links No One Else Does

Lecture 7: Early Customer Acceptance Of Language – Ground Your Language Collectively

Lecture 8: Conclusions So Far – Visualization Of Concepts Eliminates Communication Waste!

Chapter 6: Notation – The Boxes And Arrows And Their Semantics

Lecture 1: What is a model? A Model And It's Subject

Lecture 2: Domain Models – It's In the Eye Of The Beholder

Lecture 3: What is a model more formally?

Lecture 4: The Unified Modeling Language – The Notation We Are Using In This Course

Lecture 5: UML Classes and Instances – The "Boxes"

Lecture 6: UML Associations – The "Lines"

Lecture 7: UML Generalizations – "Those That Resemble Flies From A Distance"

Lecture 8: UML Packages – "Divide and Conquer"

Chapter 7: Concept modeling workshop techniques – Perform An Outstanding Workshop

Lecture 1: Introduction To Workshop And Facilitation

Lecture 2: Workshop Preparation

Lecture 3: Workshop Storytelling – Once Upon A Time…

Lecture 4: Object Diagram Examples – Complexity Does Not Mean That It Is Wrong

Lecture 5: Pattern Recognition – "That Would Be Shunting I Suppose"

Lecture 6: Conceptual Patterns – Do Not Reinvent The Wheel

Lecture 7: Thing – Information Pattern – "I Do Not Store My Kid In A Database"

Lecture 8: Party – Role Pattern – "Who Are You? It Depends Who Is Asking?"

Lecture 9: Concepts and Processes – "The Concept Of Skies And Skiing Are Inseparable"

Lecture 10: Finding The Generic-Specific Sweet-Spot

Lecture 11: Exercise – Finding Flight Domain Concepts – It's Time For You To Enter The Stage

Lecture 12: Flight Domain Example Solution – One Of Many Ways To Solve It

Lecture 13: Workshop Exercise – Homework For You To Do. Post Your Results In The Forum!

Lecture 14: Diagram Composition – Watch How Easy It Is To Make Something Incomprehensible!

Chapter 8: Package your concept model

Lecture 1: Packaging Your Concept Model – Handle A Growing System

Lecture 2: Guidelines When Packaging Your Model

Lecture 3: Evaluation Of Package Organisation – A Fuzzy Logic Problem