Groggy Blog
Just up from a nice 2 hour sleep. Got up around 6.45 today because I was demoing my software to Seamus. Man is that guy hard to read. Hard to know what he made of the project, got some really good feed back on the report though. Very first thing he tries to do on the system didn’t work, possibly one of the few things that don’t. Bad start then, but he after he got to see the muti-threading work for the tables he seemed to be happy enough. He gave me some suggestions for functionality I could add….. with one week left :(. “Only suggestions”, he said, ha. Overall I think it was worth showing him.
The main reason I decided to blog today was because last night in the labs was filling out the evaluation of the Comp. Sys. course and it got me thinking.
Very first question, ‘What was good about the course?’ I have enjoyed my time in UL and the course but for some reason I found it really hard to produce even three points for this question, I actually had to skip it for a while because it was taking to long.
Then the second question, ‘List three things you disliked about the course?’. Now this came a little easier, this semester alone I had more than enough things to complain about. Seems to me this semester is has two modules that are completely irrelevant to a fourth year Computer Degree.
E-Business, I would feel sorry for a first year having to sit through that crap. Why am I made sit through lecture after lecture of basic web 101 in order to get my study material, for twelve weeks, when it would probably take me three hours to read all the notes for the module.
ERP seems like somebody just plucked a module out of another course to fill the required four slots for the term. Give me a choice between that and a graphics module and I’ll tell you what I think has more benefit on the course. My project, I’m learning how to put data into a glorified spreadsheet system. And the best part is that we get no proper notes, just a bloody mind map. I myself find mind maps really useful but only when I have some kind of input. A mind map infers a certain level of knowledge in the subject matter. Very first lecture in a subject I don’t want to see a mind map it means nothing to me.
Have a big problem with the lack of mathematics and programming modules and feel our course is the poorer for it. I could go on about this in more detail and I may revisit it again later but I think I’ll stop here for now.
The main reason I’m putting this post up is cause I’d like to hear what others think about their course be Comp Sys or Games?
