COMP7004 Class 10.1

Brendan, Daniel, John, and Brian gave a presentation on Big Data & Privacy.

I spoke a bit about the essay choices. (Audio recording on Blackboard)

COMP7002 A.UI Class 10.1

We looked at Chapter 14: Special Effects. We finished up quite early.

I haven't decided yet if we will do 15 tomorrow, or skip ahead to 16.

COMP7002 A.UI Week 10 Lab A

Students continued working on the project.

I asked the students who were present to talk me through their submissions for Part 3.

SOFT6002 Week 09

We had an in-class exam.

Some students stayed afterwards to discuss the assignments, but most left as soon as they could.

I advised students not to leave before organising groups for the assignments. If anyone is groupless please e-mail me and I will try to do some match-making.

COMP7004 Class 09.3

Killian, Michael, Robert, and Tomasz gave a presentation on The Digital Divide.

Marko, Gavin, and Connor gave a presentation on UDRP.

Liam, JM, and Seamus gave a presentation on I, Car (in their case iCar).

COMP7004 Class 09.2

Aaron, Michael, Sinead, and James gave a presentation on Cryptography.

Joshua, Nicholas, Kristofers, and Paul gave a presentation on Blogola.

Darren, Eden, Dean, and Shelly gave a presentation on Digital Image Ethics.

This video raises some of the points they made:

COMP7002 A.UI Class 09.2

We looked at Chapter 13 of the book. That dealt with shapes. A lot of the stuff we can do with shapes is fun and interesting, but not especially useful. However, we could do some interesting data visualisations.

COMP7004 Class 09.1

Ivo, Stephen, David, and Dennis gave a presentation on Privacy Shield

Matthew, Colm, and Joseph gave a presentation on

COMP7002 A.UI Class 09.1

I have an appointment I must keep today, so today's class in online.

In the last class we looked at how to skin a JavaFX aplpication using CSS. We saw that there are many named colors. However any color may be specified using the RGB and RGBA color systems. We saw examples of those color specification schemes in class but I didn't explain how the codes related to colors.

The RGB color scheme is explained in this video:

The RGBA color scheme specifies the color using RGB and the degree of transparency.

Transparency is explained in detail below:

COMP7002 A.UI Class 09.1 Lab Group A

Students worked on the upcoming instalment of assignment. I got a progress report from each student.

SOFT6002 Week 08

No details. Sorry

COMP7004 Class 08.3

Eve, Glenn, and James gave a presentation on RFID & Privacy.

Gary, Shane, and Patrick gave a presentation on Revenge Porn.

Mark and Kealan gave a presentation on Net Neutrality.

Here is what John Oliver had to say about Net Neutrality:

SOFT6013 Week 08

Students did an exam. That took a bit longer than I had planned for, but that's not a big deal. I offered to go through the solutions, but students didn't find that very attractive.

We spoke a bit about the assessments.

We took a look at arrays, Arrays are tricky but some things can only be achieved with them.

I created a YouTube channel with some videos I thought might be useful.

COMP7004 CyberEthics Class 08.2

I screwed up the schedule by giving class yesterday when we were supposed to have presentations. Some groups exploited the confusion to claim they were not expecting to present today. That's fine. It was my mistake.

I will send an updated schedule around shortly.

Chris, Ben, Colin, and Calvin gave a presentation on Generation Tinder.

COMP7002 A.UI Class 08.2

We looked at Chapter 12: skinning applications using CSS

COMP7004 CyberEthics Class 08.1

We looked at the Fair Use concept from the US and the equivalent fair dealing copyright exception in Ireland. We discussed the issues that arise when new works are created from existing ones. I asked students to act as jurors in hypothetical cases of music sampling where the defendants invoked the fair use defence and ask students to portion the ownership of the new work in cases where they found there was no fair use. The was considerable discussion about the extent of Kanye West's genius.

For this classes blog entry students will be expected to briefly outline and justify each decision.

COMP7002 UI Class 08.1

We completed our look at Chapter 11 of the book. We looked at the grid pane for layout.

Listing 11-2 didn't seem to be a match for the example.

In the next class we will look at skinning using CSS.

Monday 31 October was a holiday

SOFT6013 Assessment 1 information

The exam next Wednesday will have two questions.

Question 1 (60 marks) will be a programming problem. This can be answered in the kind of code we used for the phone problems. The marks will be for the logic. There is no need to be concerned with syntax. The problem will be of the kind we did in class.

Question 2 (40 marks) will be about loops.

The is a one-sheet exam. Students are allowed to bring a single A4 (front-and-back) sheet with them into the exam.

Friday 28 October was a holiday at CIT