SOFT6013 Class 12

I helped students with the data visualisation assignment.

Some students presented their submissions. Those students do not need to come to class next week.

COMP7004 Class 12.1

Nobody turned up

COMP9039 Law - Week 11 Data protection & the GDPR

Four and half hours of EU regulations in every dose

Earlier in the week I recorded lectures on the GDPR. Rather than waiting until I had the audio edited and synchronised with the slides in video form I e-mailed the raw audio to students along with the slides.  The files are on Blackboard now also. The audio file is 4.5 hours long. So obviously I don't expect anyone to get through it in one sitting.  It's guaranteed to send you to sleep it you try.

Today I uploaded e-mailed some articles and notes that elaborate on the "legitimate interest" justification for data processing.  The GDPR isn't especially informative on that.

No one attended the live session tonight.

Although the GDPR lecture largely concludes our business I will be online again next week to answer any questions or help with any issues.

COMP7004 Class 11.3

Nobody turned up.

That's fine too.

COMP7004 Class 11.2

we had an exam from 0930-1100. So there was no class

SOFT6013 Week 11

I helped students out with the assignment.

Some are finished already. Most are nearly there.

But I don't know anything about the students that didn't come to class. And I wasn't able help them.

COMP7004 Class 11.1

We had a presentation on Revenge Porn.

I spoke briefly about each of the essay topics and clarified some points where need. I encouraged student to focus on the ethical issues and togo beyond mere descriptions.

I spoke about plagiarism at length.

I answered some questions about the exam on Thursday. We didn't do trade marks not the UDRP yet, so those topics are off the list of possible questions.

COMP9039 Law Week 10 - Privacy

We had a lecture on Privacy and Data Protection. No students attended the live session.

There was some issue and the audio did not record. So the recording is of no value to students.

COMP7004 Class 10.3

We had a presentation by Keith M & Evan S on Image Editing.

We had a presentation on Gold Farming

COMP7004 Class 11.2

We had a presentation on Net Neutrality

We had a presentation on Digital Redlining

SOFT6013 Week 10

Students presented their submissions for assignment 2 as part of the assessment process. That took about 2 hours. In the meantime students tried to make some sense of assignment 3.

I talked about assignment 3 and explained how best to approach it. we looked at how to sort an array. I showed a video on bubble sort and explained that although it is more efficient it is more difficult to code. [No extra marks going for using bubble sort]

I explained that completing the exercise of finding the tallest block is the key to getting the sorted working. That is the best place to start. I went over the algorithm and code for that again on the board.

COMP9039 Law Week 09 - CyberCrime

This was a live session.

I was interrupted by a fire alarm.  The recordings are available to registered students on Adobe Connect. I also sent an e-mail with the URLs

COMP7004 Class 09.3

We were supposed to have presentations but Colin didn't turn up.

Sorry Guys. I got the time wrong.

COMP7004 Class 09.2

Saulius & Maira gave a presentation on the Filter Bubble.

John gave a presentation on Digital Rights (Management).

Tomek, Kilian, & Michael gave a presentation on the Digital Divide.

SOFT6013 Week 09

7 students came to class. But 2 left early.

Today's session was mostly Q&A. Students worked on their portfolios for next week.

COMP7004 Class 09.1

We began our look at Intellectual Property. I asked students to identify the justifications for copyright. All the groups identified the economic rights, but not considered the moral rights. This is to be expected in a common law jurisdiction like Ireland.

We discussed whether Intellectual Property was really "property". We concluded that the were closer than we thought, but mostly because regular property is less tangible that we first imagined.

COMP9039 Law Week 08 Trade Secrets & Patents

This was a live session.

The recording is available  to registered students on Adobe Connect. I also sent an e-mail with the URL

COMP7004 Class 08.3

I gave some tips on giving a presentation.

COMP7004 Class 08.2

Mandy gave a presentation on Open Data.

SOFT6013 Week 08

Only 5 students  came to class today. 1 left within 2 hours.

We looked at arrays and parallel arrays.

I asked students to take the arrays code from last week and modify the program so that the tallest block is colored red.

We talked about the next assessment. That's worth 40%. Each student must submit a portfolio of program s/he has written. These programs should demonstrate the student's programming skills.

A students should submit only code that s/he has written and can thoroughly explain. Each student will be asked to talk though her/his code and (the audio of)  that explanation will be recorded.

I asked students to modify the code further to make the shortest block green.