COMP6023 Class 18

I spent the first half the class meeting with students and going through their blog posts for Week 04. I wanted make sure that students are clear on what is expected of them for the blog. I printed out each student's blog post for Week 04. Before class I corrected spelling and grammar and made notes on how each student could improve his mark. I met with each student individually, highlighted any issues, and outlined how each student might improved his mark for the blog.

Some students said they were not clear that the online course was a requirement for Week 04. I will look into that.

For the second half of the class we continued our look at intellectual property and started our discussion of patents. I'll try to finish up with intellectual property this week.

COMP6023 Class 17

I talked students through what Assignment 2 might look like. However we will have to discuss JPEG and GIF in more detail in class. The GIMP wasn't really suitable for dealing with the GIFs so I will install Photoshop and we can look again at this. However students have enough to be getting on with if they want to make a start on the assignment.

SOFT6007 Class 20 DWEB

Students worked away on the various exercises. Some are not ready for the assessment just yet, but most are.

SOFT6007 Lists Movie

This online lesson on lists might help clear up the nesting. I noticed from the solutions to the sample exam that some students are still struggling with the nesting.

Alternative version available here

SOFT6007 Class 19 WEB

I gave out a sample exam. Some students continued coding the imagemap exercises while others tackled the exam questions. Just remember that the exam might include a question on imagemaps. So they need to be sorted out too.

SOFT6007 Class 18 DWEB ITM

I talked about the history of the Internet and how its origins influence its behaviour today. I also explained that the Internet !=  the web.

I thought today's class wasn't great. A was a bit makey-uppey. I think we will confine ourselves to technical matters in future.

COMP6023 Image and Essay assignments

Please check that you have not chosen the same image or essay topic as another student in the class. if you have please contact the other student and come to some sort of accommodation. Once you have done that please re-post you choices to the blog as a new post.

If needs be I can resolve the conflicts myself by assigning the images and topics myself.

SOFT6007 Assessment 1

We will have an in-class written exam on Tuesday 30 October.

It will be a one-sheet exam. That's like an open book exam, but with only one A4 sheet. One sheet does plenty.

SOFT6007 Imagemaps Movie

I have an online lesson on imagemaps available on YouTube and  here.

SOFT6007 Class 17 WEB

We looked at imagemaps. I asked students to code image maps for the iberia.jpg image and the usa-cities example. Links to both these images are on the notes and slides page --->

SOFT6008 Class 18 DWEB

Students continued coding the check digit exercises

SOFT6008 Class 19 COM

Students continued coding the check digit exercises

SOFT6008 Class 18 COM

Students continued coding the check digit exercises

SOFT6008 Class 17 COM DWEB

^ Movie about cookies on YouTube. Much the same as what we did in class this morning. There's a higher quality version here.


This morning's class:

We started our look at coding cookies.


There are policy issues surrounding the use of cookies also. But we won't really address those. Consumers are increasing aware of cookies and have become concerned. That's why sites like RTE and the BBC are very up front about their use of cookies. Cookies haven't been and aren't always used with the best interests of users in mind. Wikipedia has more on this.

RTE's cookie policy
aboutcookies.org

SOFT6008 Progress

I had a look at the contents of the shared Dropboxes to see what kind of progress students have been making. But it didn't look like much was going on.

There's some individual feedback available here

SOFT6008 Dropbox

If you tried to share a dropbox with me but I rejected it because of the folder name (e.g. "webstuff") then it's best to make a new folder and share that. If you just change the name, it seems that I get an invitation with the old name.

SOFT6008 Class 16 WEB COM

I talked the class through the handout given out in the labs and I outlined different ways students might code the checksum exercises.

we found another typo in the handout. But it's a fairly obvious one.

COMP6023 Class 16

We looked some more at Copyright issues.

Next week (but perhaps not next class) we will look at other kinds of intellectual property.

SOFT6007 Fun with RGB

This RGB game can help you understand the RGB colour system a bit better. But it only works in HTML5 (so you'll need the Chrome or Safari browser)

SOFT6007 Class 16 ITM

Students continued coding their timetables using classes.

All students need to get that sorted this week.