Chapter 7   Page 3 of 16

The APT 'Object' Breakdown Chart

Good planning is simply clear organised thinking. To achieve this, you need to be able to structure your thinking.

Let me now show you an easy way to do this.

To keep my explanation uncomplicated, I am going to use an old fashion audio cassette (instead of the apple) to illustrate the steps involved.

In Figure A, I have pictured a blank (unrecorded) audio cassette tape.

Imagine that you may have just purchased this item from a local store.

Using our simple box representation system, we could represent this as shown in Figure B.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let the icon box shown in Figure B represent the physical object pictured in Figure A