Introduction

There may be more or less than 1000 steps in this learning experience. To learn, however, start at step 1 and ensure you master the steps in order. Soon, you will be a productive information modeler bringing business value to your customers at an unprecedented speed.

What is the 1000 Steps Program?

The 1000 Steps to MDriven is an introduction to MDriven. It is an educational package starting from the very beginning, explaining everything in the smallest detail, but with constant forward progress to learn one more thing. Eventually, after more than 100 or 200 steps, you will know enough about the handicraft to begin to "talk" and express yourself with the tools.

Looking ahead, there will be quite a few steps once you have gone through an intriguing process, from knowing nothing to producing web applications. You might not be fluent in everything when you meet your first customer client, but at least you will know that things exist and where to start looking to find them.

Our purpose is to guide you through a series of super small steps - baby steps. It is a series of click and do this or that in a simple and unscary way. If you want to get into the tool completely or at least produce something that gives real results, you need to learn the house.

In the end, we can't shy away from building information systems for real life even though it is a bit complicated because real life is complicated. We show the ropes to anyone eager to find out fairly easily how to do it without making a great mystery of how MDriven works.

The great thing about having it documented in baby steps is that once you're on your merry way and far beyond it, you might still want to go back and check a specific thing at a later date. All the steps are accompanied by a video showing every single thing we do in a way that feels as natural as possible.

We start with modeling and handling the tool, adding classes, and dragging on associations because when we have been in a classroom, it has not been simple for people to try the tool for the first time. Quite a few have managed to create an association to self and not found it while getting a lot of errors and struggling with how to delete it. This is why we put some effort into these first steps to enable you to get out of trouble and also know how the mechanics work and the separation of the model as a repository with all the classes versus the diagrams that only show part of what is in the model. Even though the steps are extremely small, we cover so much ground, which is the main objective of this.

Start here: https://wiki.mdriven.net/index.php/The_1000_steps_program_to_MDriven_Chapter_1

Enjoy the experience!