Tuesday, October 11, 2016

COMP7002 UI Class 05.1

We looked at getting input from the user. We looked at text fields, check boxes, and radio buttons.

We looked at Listing 6-1 and Listing 6-2.I asked student to draw a tree of the layout hierarchy using Listing 6-2. I asked students to e-mail a picture of it to me when done. None did.

COMP7004 Class 05.1

details to follow

Monday, October 10, 2016

COMP7002 UI Week 05 Lab A

Students worked on the mock up for the assignment. Many students did not develop on paper. Mock ups are done on paper because they encourage you to experiment and to thrown away what you have and start again. A lot of students boxed themselves in by not using paper.

Friday, September 30, 2016

Thursday, September 29, 2016

SOFT6002 HCI Week 03

I talked for about two hours and then I had to stop.





We looked at a Windows 95 video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc

We got as far as text. next up sound.

We moved to a lab and students worked on the hueristics exercise.

COMP7004 CyberEthics Class 03.3

We looked at duty-based ethics, virtue ethics, situation ethics, ethics & ideology, moral relativism.

Slides:

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

SOFT6013 Week 03

We looked at loops and at the idea of subroutines.

I explained a little bit about how Processing code gets executed.

Students finally got to play with some real code.

COMP7004 CyberEthics Class 03.2

I asked students to get into groups of four and work through the problems at moralmachine.mit.edu

Some students embraced the exercise and had an interesting discussion.


At least two groups didn't bother even starting it.

COMP7002 UI CLASS 03.2

We looked at the last example in Chapter 4.

We looked at Chapter 5 which was on how to use the layout panes and how to add margins and spacers to nodes.

I spoke a little bit about the value of doing paper designs with actual paper.

In the next class we will look at Chapter 6.

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

COMP7002 UI Class 03.1

We looked at Chapter 4 of the book, up to the click counter exit program. We will start there in the next class.

Monday, September 26, 2016

COMP7002 UI Lab 03 A

Students began work on the assignment by starting to design the paper mock up.

[One student completed the in-class exercise.]

Sunday, September 25, 2016

COMP7004 CyberEthics Class 03.1

We looked at Consequentialism.

We discussed Walter White's consequentialist login in Phoenix.

We looked at the trolley problem and the moralmachine.mit.edu.

Saturday, September 24, 2016

COMP7004 CyberEthics Week 02 update

I hope you enjoyed our first proper week of CyberEthics.

As I outlined at the start of the semester, there are 30 marks going for the reflective journal. In order to receive full marks you should have your blog entries completed by 2300 on Sunday night. You can only reflect on the classes you attended.

I still not have received the URLs for many blogs. If you set up your blog usinn blogger the URL will look something like DansEthics.blogspot.ie.  Please e-mail me the URL before 2300 on Sunday.

In preparation for next week's discussions please visit the following pages and listen to the discussions there:
Would you Kill the Big Guy?


And if it is available to you please watch Episode  2.12 of Breaking Bad. (Phoenix).
It's the one that starts with loads of body bags out side Walter White's house.

Friday, September 23, 2016

COMP7002 UI Lab 02 B

Some students completed the in-class exercise.

Others looked at the draft of the assignment spec and discussed it with Colin.

I will send out the complete spec soon.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

SOFT6002 HCI Week 02




We  looked at the first 5 heuristics we will use to evaluate interfaces.

I explained how checksums can be used to validate user input and we looked at some interesting examples from around the world.

Three lecture's worth non-stop was a lot o sit through. I appreciate your attention. Thanks for that.

COMP7004 CyberEthics Class 02.3

We began our look at ethics principles.


We looked at Supernaturalism and Intuitionism

Slides:

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

SOFT6013 Programming Week 02

We looked at the IF statement

I asked students to do Problem 5 in pairs.

Some students weren't able to login. That limited us in what we could do.

Students worked very hard today. Well done. It's not easy.

COMP7004 CyberEthics Class 02.2

I asked class to discuss the CyberEthics new or old question in groups for 5 mins.

I asked students to install download Kahoot app and we gave it a go.

Discussion question: How do we know what is wrong and what is right?


Aside: It is not possible to discuss something in a group, by yourself.  This module will be much more enjoyable if you buy into its premises and go along with it.


COMP7002 UI Class 02.2

We looked at the four different ways to handle events.

We looked at the sample code AddSubtract1, AddSubtract2, AddSubtract3, AddSubtract4, AddSubtract5

I misjudged the time it would take to get through that so we finished up at 1035.