SOFT6008 Class 44

Only 3 students turned up.

2 worked on fixing their Assignment 1 submissions. 1 on Assignment 2.

SOFT6008 Assignment 1 - last chance extension

Hi

Under normal circumstances the 2 week late deadline for Assignment would be 1715 on Thursday 14 April. After this deadline late submissions will have a penalty of -100% applied to them.

I am extending this deadline to noon on Monday 18 April. Work submitted by e-mail by then will have the -20% penalty applied.

Computing Ethics Class 32

Today's class was given over to helping students with their papers. I wanted to have some brainstroming sessions where students could give each other ideas, to talk about the importance of structure, and give tips for constructing an argument.

No one turned up. Oh well.

Computing Ethics Class 31

We looked at security and encryption, and discussed some of the ethical issues surrounding cooperation with governments.

In the next two classes we will work on beating the papers into shape. Students should come prepared.

SOFT6008 Class 41 & 42 Lab B

Lab class. Only four students.

SOFT6008 Assignment 1

I am still waiting on some Assignment 1 submissions. Submissions received after Thursday at 1715, will not yield any marks.

Above is a list of submissions I have to date. If yours does not appear here, you need to contact Colin

SOFT6008 Class 43

We used this class as a lab. Students are working on Assignment 2

Colin M

SOFT6008 Class 41 & 42 Lab A

Lab.

Only 3 students attended

Computing Ethics Class 30

No body showed up

SOFT6008 Class 40

We used today's class as a lab.

I spent the week trying to think up new and interesting things for us to do in JavaScript and I concluded that we are done.

If students want to experiment with some of the more interesting things we did I am happy to help out. But everyone at CIT seems very tired these days, so I don't think we will do anything new in class. So all subsequent classes will be labs.

I strongly recommend that students get the assignment in before the spring break rather than waiting until the day of the deadline. The break is better used studying for exams.

Computing Ethics Class 29

This class was canceled because it clashed with a meeting of the Academic Council of which Colin is a member.

Computing Ethics Class 28

We had a quick recap of the four main types of intellectual property protection. We discussed the case of the software license whistle blower.

We discussed the case of the spice burger.

We had a brief look at the Eurovision Azerbaijan Secret Police story as a cautionary tale.

Computing Ethics

Interesting site visualizing the information stored by mobile phone companies.

http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention

Computing Ethics Class canceled this Wednesday

There's no Computing Ethics class on Wed 06 April because the class clashes with a meeting of the Academic Council.

Ken Robinson on Changing Education Paradigms

SOFT6008 Class 39

e used this lecture hour as a lab.

SOFT6008 Class 37 & 38 Lab B

Students worked away on the assignments. I get the feeling that people are a bit tried of JavaScript. That is understandable. But if you work hard for the next week or so you can get it done and dusted and out of the way.

SOFT6008 Class 37 & 38 Lab A

There were only 7 students in class. 3 were working on Assignment 2 and 4 still working on Assignment 1.

Computing Ethics Class 27

As expected, there were no additional presentations today.

SOFT6008 Class 36

We used a few minutes at the start of class to take up submissions for Assignment 1.

I explained how the late penalty is applied at CIT and asked that students who want to avail of the late option e-mail me to let me know. Any student who has not yet met the minimum requirements would probably get more marks for a late submission that works, than for an on-time one that doesn't work.

Students who may have accidentally handed up code that was not entirely their own may retract all or any parts of their submission by sending me an e-mail. This offer will have expired a few days time.

We looked at the canvas in HTML5.
Examples a, a2, b, c, d