COMP6021 Cancelled

COMP6021 Media Data Formats will not be offered this semester after all, because too few students were interested in it.

That's a pity. But these are difficult times.

SOFT6007 Feedback

If you took SOFT6007 with me last semester and your dropbox is still shared with me, you will fine a small txt file there with some feedback on Assignment 2. If you want a recording of our meeting just ask. Once you have what you want, please unshare the folder. 

COMP6021 Class 04

We devised a communication scheme for Outpost 17:


The remaining humans have split up into secure outposts. The solar powered lights on the end of town are controlled from inside the perimeter of Outpost 17, but can be seen from watch towers at the other outposts. This system has been used for months now to communicate between outposts using Morse code. Outpost 17 had a computing student from Cork until recently. He explained that Morse code made sense if you had only one light, but it was inefficient when you had more. But he didn't make it through the last attack and now he's either dead or un-dead.  We found his notes. But we don't know what he meant by 23 + 23 = 64. If we could communicate with the other outposts more quickly it would make a huge difference. Maybe you can figure out what he had in mind.

SOFT6008 Feedback in Dropbox

If your dropbox is still shared with me, you will find in it a small text file with some feedback on your assignment 2.

If you would like a copy of the audio recording of our meeting please let me know and I will put that in the dropbox too.

When you have what you want please unshare your folder.

COMP6023 Lab 01 DWEB

I talked students through how to set up a blog. I asked students to e-mail the URLs when done and to check that their Google+ accounts are set up.

COMP6021 Class 03

We took a look at some of the features of Photoshop that we will need for this module and I previewed some of the issues we will be dealing with.

COMP6021 Class 02

We looked at text coding (and semaphore) and of course Power Ranger Air Kanji and Cherokee

COMP6023 Thursday's DNET/DCOM Lecture canceled

Thursday's DNET/DCOM lecture at 1500 is canceled.

COMP6023 Lab 01 DNET

I got students to to set up their blogs.

Students e-mailed me their blog URLs and set up their Google+ accounts. 

I had connectivity issues so there's no recording. Students who missed the class should see the recording from earlier in the say. And maybe even those who didn't miss it.

COMP6023 Lab 01 ITM

Students set up blogs using blogger.com

Students e-mailed me their blog URLs and set up their Google+ accounts.

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.