SOFT6007 CA results so far

The CA results so far are available here.

The results are sorted by the last 4 digits of your ID number.

45% of the marks for the module have now been allocated. The remaining 55% are for the assignment.

SOFT6008 Class 12.1 W

Only four students came to class. They worked on the assignment.

SOFT6008 Class 12.1 B

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6007 Class 12.1

I talked a bit about Erasmus.

We looked at hosting and domain names

SOFT6008 Class 12.1 & 12.2 A

Only two students came to class. The worked on the assignment.

SOFT6007 Class 11.4 W

Nobody turned up

SOFT6007 Class 11.2 & 11.3 & 11.4 N

Students worked on the assignment.

Attendance was poor

SOFT6007 Class 11.2 & 11.3 W

Attendance was poor. Students worked on the assignment.

I asked students to consolidate now rather than starting new sections. I also asked them to run all their pages through the validator.

SOFT6008 Class 11.2 & 11.3 B

Students worked on the assignment. Most seem to be nearly finished now.

SOFT6008 Class 11.4

We had an exam

SOFT6008 Class 11.3 W

Students worked on the assignment.

SOFT6008-W Class 11.2 & 11.3

Some students worked on the assignment and some studied for the exam.

Those that were working on the assignment see to be nearly there.

SOFT6008 Class 11.1 W

Students worked on the assignment.

SOFT6008 Class 11.1 B

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6007 Class 11.1

We had an exam.  Most students finished quite quickly.

Some students didn't put their names on their answers. That is consuming some of my time!

SOFT6008 Class 11.1 & 11.2 A

Students worked on the assignment.

I had to leave a bit early to be in place for an exam

SOFT6007 Class 10.4 W

Students worked on the assigment

SOFT6007 Class 10.2 & 10.3 & 10.4 W

Students worked on the assigment

SOFT6008 Cookies

Don't forget that cookies won't work locally in Safari or Chrome. You have to use Firefox. 

SOFT6008 Class 10.2 & 10.3 B

Attendance was very poor. Students worked in the assignment. 

Students didn't want to see my Photoshop party pieces because they have finished making their images for the assignment. 

SOFT6008 Class 10.4

No one brought any questions so I gave students a sample exam to work through. For the second half hour of the class I talked students through a solution and we discussed different options. 

I emailed the sample to everyone later on

SOFT6008 Class 10.3 A

I showed students a few useful tricks in Photoshop

SOFT6008 Classes 10.2 & 10.3 W

Students worked in the assignment. 

SOFT6008 Class 10.1 W

Students worked on the assignment.

I have requested that Photoshop be installed in IT2.1 since we don't have labs in the locations where its is already installed.

SOFT6008 Class 10.1 B

Students worked on the assignment.

There was no Photoshop in the lab so I said I would show students a few tricks in the next lab. However it seems that most students already have done their images, so there may be no need. We'll see.

SOFT6007 Class 10.1

We looked at Intellectual Property (although we didn't get beyond Copyright)

We might continue that conversation next week, or we might move on to something else.

SOFT6008 Class 10.1 & 10.2 A

Students worked on the assignment.

I showed students a few useful part tricks in Photoshop

SOFT6007 Class 09.4 W

I talked about the Lab and CMYK colour systems, and the differences between GIF, JPEG, & PNG. Next week I hope to have a lab on image formats, provided I can get Photoshop installed in C123x

SOFT6007 Classes 09.2 & 09.3 & 09.4

09.2
Students worked on the assignment

09.3
I talked about the Lab and CMYK colour systems, and the differences between GIF, JPEG, & PNG. Next week I hope to have a lab on image formats, provided I can get Photoshop installed in C123x

09.4
Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6007 Class 09.2 & 09.3 W

Students worked on the assignment.

SOFT6007 Class 10.2 & 10.3 N

Students worked on the assigment

SOFT6008 Classes 09.02 & 09.3 B

Only two students came to class.

SOFT6008 Class 09.4

I e-mailed students an outline of today's class in advance so they could decide whether or not it was worth coming. Most decided it wasn't.

We finished of the coding of cookies.

I explained how cookies are used to track people online and may students seemed genuinely horrified, although probably not enough to quite Facebook.

I spoke a bit about how to tackle the assignment. I might come up with a small example.

[As promised example is now online]

SOFT6008 Class 09.3 A

Students worked on the assignment.

SOFT6008 Class 09.2 & 09.3 W

Students worked on the assignment.

SOFT6007 Class 08.4 W

Attendance was very poor. In fairness, everyone I met in CIT this week seemed a bit tired. Me too.

SOFT6008 Class 09.1 W

Students worked on the assignment. Most I spoke to were still working on Part A

SOFT6008 Class 09.1 B

Students worked on the assignment.

We had to evacuate due to a fire alarm. Some of us found ourselves in C128 where we carried on. Sorry if we lost you in the commotion.

Most students I spoke to are finished Part A, and the others are nearly there. But I've no idea who those I haven't seen are doing.

SOFT6007 Class 09.1

We looed at digital representations of colour. We looked at HSB & RGB

Students might enjoy this RGB game

SOFT6008 Class 09.1 & 09.2 A

Students worked on the assignment. Many are finished Part A

SOFT6008 Classes 08.2 & 08.3 & 08.4 N

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6007 Class 08.2 & 08.3 W

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6008 Exam 25 November

We will have a 1-hour exam at 1300 on 25 November.

This will be a closed book exam. No bags, notes, phones, pencil cases, nor calculators will be allowed in the exam hall.

Students may use pen or pencil, but sharing of rubbers will not be allowed.

Students must bring their ID cards with them.

Please arrive early so that we can start on time.

SOFT6007 Exam 23 November

We will have a 1-hour exam at 1200 on 23 November. The exam will be on JavaScript.

This will be a closed book exam. No bags, notes, phones, pencil cases, nor calculators will be allowed in the exam hall.

Students may use pen or pencil, but sharing of rubbers will not be allowed.

Students must bring their ID cards with them.

Please arrive early so that we can start on time.

SOFT6008 Class 08.4

We talked briefly about Part A of the assignment.

We looked at the Mr. Spud Head example and the T-Shirt example.

We began our look at cookies. Slides 2015-JS03d.pdf

audio SOFT6008-08-4-20151104.mp3

If you are interested you can read more about he privacy implications of cookies at
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/08/online-privacy

SOFT6008 Class 08.3 A

Students worked on the assignment

SOFT6008 Assignment Part A

I have put some text values on the blog and clarified a few things about the requirements.

SOFT6008 Classes 08.2 & 08.3 W

Students worked on the assignment. Progress is slow but steady.

SOFT6008 Deadline extension

The deadline for Part A of the Assignment (checksums) has been extended to Noon on Friday 13 November

SOFT6008 Class 08.1 W

Students worked on code for the assignment.

SOFT6007 Class 08.1

We had an exam.

SOFT6008 Class 08.1 & 08.2 A

Attendance in class was good today, but I was disappointed to learn that many students are only starting work on the assignment now.

I had to leave early to be in place for an exam with another class.