Colin Manning Munster Technological University

We looked at Human Memory (slides: W05-L1) and Mental Models (W06-L1) After coffee we went to the lab and examined three websites for usab...

I gave students a quick tour of Photoshop. Some basic Photoshop skills will be required for the assignment. Some students had fun with Photo...

I met with each student and gave feedback on the blog posts. Different students make different kinds of errors. So hopefully they can be avo...

Students had very few questions so once we were done we left early

We did two examples of Huffman coding with 8 symbols.

Students continued coding checksum calculations. These will be incorporated into the assignment eventually.

I planned to do exercises on generating UTF-8 and on Huffman coding. However the UTF-8 proved tricker than we expected, so we will do the Hu...

Apologies for the late start. My calendar led me astray and I obeyed. We reviewed various JavaScript versions of the Luhn algorithm foun...

Worth a look This article is also worth a read http://www.theatlantic.com/product/archive/2014/08/the-hamburger-menu-debate/379145/

[No recording of today's class. Sound too bad] We played Hangman to illustrate the point that letters in English do not occur with ...

We discussed the assignment a bit and assigned students to groups. But it's not really a group project. We covered the Ecological Theo...

Attendance was poor today. I'm told there are some pressing social engagements this week. Students worked on checksum calculations. We...

I brought peper copies of journals again. But they weren't as popular as the last day. I met with most students. From what I can see stu...

We attempted to do an experiment to see how many bytes are required to store a Japanese character in UTF-8 but could paste Japanese into any...

Students started coding the Luhn algorithm. Some finished and moved into other checksums. 

We continued our looked at Unicode. We looked at how writing works in Japanese, and briefly mentioned Emoji.

We looked a a variety of different check sum calculations. It looks like my understanding of the check sum used on French ID numbers may b...

A series of English Academic Writing Workshops will begin today, delivered by Helen Breen. These workshops are free to all students.  The ...

I brought some paper copies Communications of the ACM and IEEE Computer to class with some  articles marked. Students passed these around. E...

We looked at UTF-8. I gave students a UTF-8 message to decode. 49 E2 99 A5 E6 97 A5 E6 9C AC I think they got the hang of it. 0...