COMP6021 Class 01

The sound quality on this recording was very poor. Alas the noise cancellation software didn't work. It seems that hot air and cold air share too many characteristics for the software to separate them.

I talked very briefly about the module and then we looked at the humble mighty bit.

I gave out a handout from CS Unplugged about sending messages using bits. It seems a bit basic but it makes some important points. [Problems with the link. Will fax later]

I love this video on number bases:

COMP6023 Web Pub. Class 02 DWEB/ITM

We looked at blogs.

Slides

COMP6023 Class 01 DWEB/ITM

I talked students through the module descriptor. I had some technical difficulties and some cold related difficulties, so we finished up a bit early.

Audio only

COMP6023 Lab 01 DCOM

Nobody showed up for the labs. But that's fine. I wasn't expecting anyone. We should have no problem catching up. I'm teaching two instances of this module and hope to have the groups synchronized. But sure the bank holidays will probably screw with that plan anyway

COMP6023 Class 01 DNET/DCOM

Today lecture was cancelled. Apologies for the short notice. I had e-mail problems too. I hop enough of you got my text messages in time.

Free Choice Modules

Information on Computing Free Choice modules is at

http://mcom.cit.ie/staff/computing/cmanning/2013-free-choices.pdf

and

tinyurl.com/compfc2013

Any updates will be available at the same location.

Module Registration

 [None of this applies to 1st years]

Semester 2 2012/13 online enrolment for electives or any missing modules will be opened on Monday 21^st January and will remain open until 5pm 8^th February, after which enrolment must be submitted by Late Module Registration Form and a fee paid.  

Deadlines are as follows:

Deadline 1:  5pm 8^th February (fine Eu30: 9th - 22^nd February)

Deadline 2:  5pm 22^nd February (fine Eu80: 23rd Feb - 26^th April)

Deadline 3:  26^th April (fine Eu100: after this date)

(All funds go to the Student Assistance Fund).

Students can check their current enrolment at Web for Student http://www.mycit.ie/web4 ). An email will be sent to all students on 21st January to encourage them to enrol online by 8^thFebruary.

Students doing Exams Only, Repeats, or Project Only should not enrol online but rather submit a Registration form signed by the Head of Department, to Admissions by 8th February.

Epic Fail at Vodafone.ie

At perhaps the busiest time of the online shopping year Vodafone.ie is turning away all customers, because of a user input validation error. Very few e-mail address are being accepted by the site. I e-mailed them about it last night. It will be interesting to see how long it takes them to fix it. I'd love to know see the hourly online sales figures.

We didn't cover the use of regular expressions for input validation in this module. But many students used them anyway. Here's the code used by Vodafone to validate the e-mail address. See if you can figure what kind of e-mail addresses it will take, any maybe bag one of those Nokia Lumia 800s that they have run out of in the shops.



var EmailTxtBoxCheck = function(controlToValidate) 
{

var RE_EMAIL = /^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\_\-\.]*\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/;

if (RE_EMAIL.test(controlToValidate.value))
   {
//HideError(controlToValidate);
return true;

   } 
else 
   {
//ShowError(controlToValidate);
return false;
   }
}

SOFT6008 Class 45 DWEB

We had one last lab class for any stragglers who were still working on the assignment

SOFT6007 Class 45 DWEB ITM

We had an in-class JavaScript exam.

SOFT6008 Class 44

We looked at some of the interesting things you can do with HTML and with the canvas. But we didn't go into much detail.

HIgher Education App Style

The higher education sector is struggling to provide quality services despite fewer resources and governments around the world are insisting that colleges and universities find new revenue sources. What would higher education look like of the sector adopted some business modules from the web and computer companies?

Well first of all a basic university education would be free for everyone. Students could attend classes for free, but if they wanted to actually speak to a professor they would have to pay. These support sessions could be paid for on a single incident basis, or students could subscribe to a premium support service that allowed them to talk to a professor whenever they wanted. Only the basic course content would be free. Students would have to pay to unlock the advanced levels. Good students could earn gold stars by getting good test scores and by attending class regularly. Students could sell their gold stars online and weak students could buy gold stars for cash. Tests would be difficult, but students would be able to purchase power-ups to make them easier. Cheat sheets would be available, but at a price. Students would constantly be bombarded by targeted advertising. But they could pay to make the advertising go away. Professors wouldn’t actually know students’ names, but they would know everything else about them. Their eating habits, reading habits, web surfing history, and social interactions would all be logged and sold to marketing companies. Students could earn extra gold stars by telling all their Facebook friends how great the course is.

COMP6023 Class 44

We looked at the various topics that were set for Assignment 3. I distributed copies of the essays.

This was our last class.

SOFT6007 Class 44 ITM

Students worked on the JavaScript exercises (well some of the students anyway).

Plagiarism

Students are advised to re-read the Institute's regulations on plagiarism. If you feel you may have inadvertently submitted work that was not entirely you own, you are free to withdraw it and submit again. The resubmission will incur the standard late penalties.

Any student wishing to withdraw his or her submission should do so by e-mailing Colin before Monday 3 December.

SOFT6007 Class 41 & 43 ITM

Students worked on JavaScript. Some were a bit distracted though.

SOFT6008 Deadline passed

Hi

Altough the deadline was 1000, I took a copy of the dropbox at 1316. If you got your work in before then and sync'ed then it will be considered on-time.

Please leave the folders shared. I hope to use them for feedback.

SOFT6008 Dropbox Closing

I'll be taking a copy of the dropboxes in a few minutes. So sync up what you've got now.

COMP6023 Class 43

We looked at the various topics that were set for Assignment 3. I distributed copies of the essays. There are spares in F1.2

SOFT6008 Assignment Deadline

The deadline for the assignment is 1000 this morning. However for practical reasons it will be closer to 1200 by the time I capture the state of the dropboxes. I will post a note to the blog once I have done that. Students may continue to work until the last minute if they need to.

Students who submit late will have the standard -10% penalty applied. But this penalty is applied up to the first week. So if you miss the deadline today take the whole week to improve the work to try to make back the marks you lost.

A number of students asked for confirmation that I received their submission. If the dropbox was set up correctly there is no reason to believe that I did not get it. I asked students to set up the dropboxes months ago. There was plenty of time to test them between then and now. I don't plan to reply to each students. Students were welcome to view the contents of the folders in the labs. Many did. Many did not.