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Opinicus · 16-12-2011 9:19pm

yeah i found the same for oop4. two hours is tight when you're handwriting code.

siblers · 16-12-2011 9:27pm

I gave question 3b a shot alright in an attempt to just pick up whatever marks possible, think i made a total mess of 1a as my mind went blank with the chr$(13). Was happy enough with 1b and 2b but hard to know how much stuff i messed up in it

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siblers · 30-12-2011 4:02pm

Tried to get back into study today for Maths, did about haf an hour and could face no more. Nightmare having the exam the day after the bank holiday

JFlah · 31-12-2011 12:19am

siblers wrote: »

Tried to get back into study today for Maths, did about haf an hour and could face no more. Nightmare having the exam the day after the bank holiday

It,s scary how much i,ve forgotten , thank god i did well in the CA

siblers · 03-01-2012 8:20pm

How ye get on in Maths? Always hard to tell with maths whether you did good or bad but I hopefully got the 21% needed to pass. Attempted the 5 questions but stumbled pretty badly on the statistics one.

JFlah · 03-01-2012 10:19pm

siblers wrote: »

How ye get on in Maths? Always hard to tell with maths whether you did good or bad but I hopefully got the 21% needed to pass. Attempted the 5 questions but stumbled pretty badly on the statistics one.

Found it very do able did all 5 and confident i did well in 4 had a good mark going in too which made it easier

Opinicus · 23-01-2012 12:44am

Here we go again!

siblers · 23-01-2012 1:56am

Gonna be an onslaught of Java this semester, rest of timetable seems ok. Only 4 months or so till Summer hols :cool:

Opinicus · 23-01-2012 2:55am

Anyone know when the results are out?

JFlah · 23-01-2012 10:37am

Opinicus wrote: »

Anyone know when the results are out?

fairly certain it,s the 3rd of Feb. welcome back everyone!!!

Opinicus · 23-01-2012 6:23pm

JFlah wrote: »

fairly certain it,s the 3rd of Feb. welcome back everyone!!!

not that far away so.:D

siblers · 23-01-2012 7:42pm

I was looking at the timetable, it appears we have the first week of March off, then off 2 weeks at the start of April, then back 3 weeks before summer exams. Gonna be a fairly fast and furious semester i'd say.

JFlah · 23-01-2012 11:25pm

siblers wrote: »

I was looking at the timetable, it appears we have the first week of March off, then off 2 weeks at the start of April, then back 3 weeks before summer exams. Gonna be a fairly fast and furious semester i'd say.

Yeah from what i gather it,ll be fairly full on especially programming !!!

siblers · 25-01-2012 12:57am

Are there classes during ragweek? I thought we had midterm or something during the start of march as the timetable has no classes listed, but it turns out its clear the same week rag week is on.

JFlah · 31-01-2012 5:33pm

How is the new semester going for everyone so far?

AntiRip · 31-01-2012 6:58pm

JFlah wrote: »

How is the new semester going for everyone so far?

Not too bad so far. Java is the stinger

. It's a struggle to finish labsheets now in class as they are fairly heavy. Just have to get used to the language I guess.

I did fairly good in JB last semester (90%) and finding lab 4 a struggle so far so more practice needed!

siblers · 31-01-2012 8:31pm

Seems ok so far, was expecting semester 2 to be a lot more intense, but so far seems manageble, Digital Imaging seems so far that it wont be as demanding as vis comms, Op systems and Computer Architecture seems grand as well, Java is the big one. CA next week will be fairly tough trying to remember all the code.

JFlah · 31-01-2012 9:24pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Not too bad so far. Java is the stinger . It's a struggle to finish labsheets now in class as they are fairly heavy. Just have to get used to the language I guess.

I did fairly good in JB last semester (90%) and finding lab 4 a struggle so far so more practice needed!

seemed to become clearer half way through lab3 so hopefully with practice it,ll be easier . it,s a huge module so hopefully workload in others won,t be too bad

siblers · 03-02-2012 3:28pm

Passed the exams anyway, made all that hard work (so far anyway) worht it

AntiRip · 03-02-2012 4:42pm

siblers wrote: »

Passed the exams anyway, made all that hard work (so far anyway) worht it

ditto

It's a relief to pass them and put them behind us especially VC and LA3rdLevel

JFlah · 03-02-2012 7:44pm

All passed , did well so WHEEEEEEeeeeeeeeewwww

Opinicus · 03-02-2012 8:55pm

Passed. On course for a distinction if I keep my grades up this semester! :cool:

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AntiRip · 03-02-2012 11:04pm

Opinicus wrote: »

Passed. On course for a distinction if I keep my grades up this semester!

Well done

Just a quick one. Are your grades added up from both semesters and averages taken? Are they taken year to year or is every semester independent?

Opinicus · 04-02-2012 1:35am

AntiRip wrote: »

Well done

Just a quick one. Are your grades added up from both semesters and averages taken? Are they taken year to year or is every semester independent?

I was in University before and this was done.

Yeah according to the results they average the two semesters every year. I have one average each for year 1, 2, etc.
Interestingly under award it only lists my average for this year (so far). Is it only the GPA from the last year that is used for the award or is it all 3?

AntiRip · 04-02-2012 1:36pm

Opinicus wrote: »

Yeah according to the results they average the two semesters every year. I have one average each for year 1, 2, etc.
Interestingly under award it only lists my average for this year (so far). Is it only the GPA from the last year that is used for the award or is it all 3?

Couldn't tell you. I wasn't even told that semesters are added together and an average taken.

In UL each semester was added through years 1-4 and an average taken. Was a b1tch if you had a tough semester as it would drive down your overall average. I did bad in the second semester (year 1) and it was always a struggle from then to raise it to almost impossible especially if you're chasing a 2.1 first class honors degree.

Opinicus · 04-02-2012 3:41pm

Interesting:

Proposal to establish the Munster Technological University

Might not happen for a few years although I could see the government/HEA using this as a way to cut costs and amalgamate courses. Makes sense in a way I suppose. I wonder would each campus become specialised e.g. Tralee for Tech, Cork for Business, Limerick for Science?

siblers · 04-02-2012 6:00pm

Opinicus wrote: »

Yeah according to the results they average the two semesters every year. I have one average each for year 1, 2, etc.
Interestingly under award it only lists my average for this year (so far). Is it only the GPA from the last year that is used for the award or is it all 3?

Thankfully It will just be based on your 3rd year results, if you do 4th year you will be judged on your 4th year results. Would put students under loads of pressure if was your GPA from years 1-3/4

siblers · 04-02-2012 7:35pm

Antirip or JFlah, just wondering have either of ye done exercise 2 in lab sheet 4? It's the one about the PAYE. I have it working but I didn't use the constant thingy as I wasn't sure how to do it. Here's my code for it, just wondering how would I use the constant.

//exercise2.java

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class exercise2 {
public static void main(String args[])
{
String incomeAsString, pensionAsString, cutoffAsString, taxAsString;
float income, pension, cutoff, tax, paye;
incomeAsString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter your income:");
pensionAsString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter your pension payment:");
cutoffAsString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter your cutoff:");
taxAsString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter your tax credits:");

income = Float.parseFloat(incomeAsString);
pension = Float.parseFloat(pensionAsString);
cutoff = Float.parseFloat(cutoffAsString);
tax = Float.parseFloat(taxAsString);

if (income > cutoff)
{

paye = cutoff/5 + (income-cutoff-pension)/100*42 - tax;

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The PAYE Due by the employee is" + paye, "PAYE Calculator",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
}
else
{
paye = (income - pension)/5 - tax;
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The PAYE Due by the employee is" + paye, "PAYE Calculator",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
}
System.exit(0);
}
}

JFlah · 04-02-2012 8:09pm

siblers wrote: »

Antirip or JFlah, just wondering have either of ye done exercise 2 in lab sheet 4? It's the one about the PAYE. I have it working but I didn't use the constant thingy as I wasn't sure how to do it. Here's my code for it, just wondering how would I use the constant.

the way I coded mine is to set a constant do

final float HIGHER_RATE = 42f;

final float LOWER_RATE = 20f;

the variable name must be all upper case and if double barrelled names separate names with underscore

siblers · 04-02-2012 8:25pm

Sweet, gradually starting to get a hang of it.

JFlah · 04-02-2012 8:51pm

siblers wrote: »

Sweet, gradually starting to get a hang of it.

Yeah me too I know what I want to do and the code just a few syntax errors to keep an eye on

siblers · 06-02-2012 6:25pm

Oh god, Operating Systems is beyond tedious.

Opinicus · 06-02-2012 7:37pm

Is that still on from 9-11 on a Monday morning?

siblers · 06-02-2012 7:49pm

We Have the lecture 2-4 wednesday, reckon ill do my tutorial sheet in Com.Architecture in our next class. Get some use out of the 2 hours

JFlah · 06-02-2012 9:31pm

Bad news, I ve done Operating Systems and it don,t get any better sorry !!
Yawwwnnnnnn.

Opinicus · 06-02-2012 11:30pm

siblers wrote: »

We Have the lecture 2-4 wednesday,

They must have learned from us so because you could count the number of people on one hand who went to that on a monday morning. Lectures in the morning do not work for most people I would say, at least if it's a practical you have to engage the brain and that stops you from falling asleep.

JFlah · 09-02-2012 12:42am

What have the CA's been like so far anyone?

siblers · 09-02-2012 8:49pm

Ours was fierce handy, just a fairly basic program using switch and the joptionpane.

JFlah · 09-02-2012 10:23pm

siblers wrote: »

Ours was fierce handy, just a fairly basic program using switch and the joptionpane.

Sounds good here,s hoping for the same

JFlah · 22-02-2012 11:49pm

Jeez lads tis gone awful quiet , any craic ??

siblers · 23-02-2012 9:46pm

Not a whole lot going on really, 2nd semester is alright so far. Personally I'm fairly worried about Operating Systems, how I'm gonna memorize it for the exams I do not know. Was struggling a bit with CSS but it is finally starting to come together. Java not too bad either, up to date with all the lab sheets so happy enough with that. Digital Imaging project is grand r as well, although I reckon I'll struggle to include all the features we were doing in class. Computer Architecture is a piece of piece so far.

Anyone else finding it quite hard doing work outside of class? I never miss classes and when on campus I do the work, but once I get home I don't do a tap. Come 4:00pm I am shattered, no energy at all compared to 1st semester.

JFlah · 23-02-2012 11:15pm

siblers wrote: »

Not a whole lot going on really, 2nd semester is alright so far. Personally I'm fairly worried about Operating Systems, how I'm gonna memorize it for the exams I do not know. Was struggling a bit with CSS but it is finally starting to come together. Java not too bad either, up to date with all the lab sheets so happy enough with that. Digital Imaging project is grand r as well, although I reckon I'll struggle to include all the features we were doing in class. Computer Architecture is a piece of piece so far.

Anyone else finding it quite hard doing work outside of class? I never miss classes and when on campus I do the work, but once I get home I don't do a tap. Come 4:00pm I am shattered, no energy at all compared to 1st semester.

Finding it very hard to get motivated this semester but struggling along ok, Digital Imaging seeming pretty poorly designed module at the moment getting 0 feedback or input, rest is ok CSS is good but forget loads of tags since 1st semester Java is ok but next CA should be interesting good few beginning to struggle badly recently.

siblers · 24-02-2012 12:28am

JFlah wrote: »

Finding it very hard to get motivated this semester but struggling along ok, Digital Imaging seeming pretty poorly designed module at the moment getting 0 feedback or input, rest is ok CSS is good but forget loads of tags since 1st semester Java is ok but next CA should be interesting good few beginning to struggle badly recently.

Yeah Java seems to be make or break for most students this semester,. Also finding attendances in classes are way down compared to first semester, loads of fellas only sticking around for half a lecture and then going away early which I personally find a bit mad. Especially for java and css. Fair aul step up from Semsester one in fairness.

Opinicus · 24-02-2012 1:42am

Yeah OOP1 is a big step up from Intro to programming. The dropout rates are atrocious after Christmas and again after the summer. If there's 50 in your class now you'll be looking at <20 next year and less again for third year.

Snowed under with project work at the moment, any second years here? How are your projects going?

JFlah · 24-02-2012 6:25pm

Yeah the biggest thing I,ve noticed is attendance or lack of it, seems to be a vicious circle the more u miss the further behind you are and the more in the **** you are so you attend even less. I,m enjoying oop1 more than JBasic seems to make a little more sense to me but a serious struggle if you fall behind i,d imagine

Opinicus · 24-02-2012 9:58pm

This is a long shot...:D

Anyone want to take part in a usability test next tuesday? Anytime between nine to eleven. It should only take ten minutes. We're just trying out some software we developed.

It's really more about performing the test than anything. It's for the Human Computer Interaction module we're currently doing.

Tea/Coffee & scones/donuts will be provided!

siblers · 25-02-2012 1:14am

Opinicus wrote: »

Yeah OOP1 is a big step up from Intro to programming. The dropout rates are atrocious after Christmas and again after the summer. If there's 50 in your class now you'll be looking at <20 next year and less again for third year.

Snowed under with project work at the moment, any second years here? How are your projects going?

All I can say is thank god for the first CA being so easy, 10%in the bag and we have another CA after rag week worth 25%. If I could get 17/18% in that I'd be delighted. I really don't want to be another statistic who dropped out because of Java, just finding that the labsheets are being piled on a bit too quickly, realistaclly could do with another 3 hour lab class a week.

You should probably send out an email for your project to the computing students, seems pretty interesting. I'd go but wont be availble at that time.

JFlah · 25-02-2012 1:35pm

Opinicus wrote: »

This is a long shot...:D

Anyone want to take part in a usability test next tuesday? Anytime between nine to eleven. It should only take ten minutes. We're just trying out some software we developed.

It's really more about performing the test than anything. It's for the Human Computer Interaction module we're currently doing.

Tea/Coffee & scones/donuts will be provided!

I have some free time between 9 and 10 if it's any good to you

Opinicus · 25-02-2012 2:46pm

JFlah wrote: »

I have some free time between 9 and 10 if it's any good to you

I'll pm you later on!

siblers wrote: »

You should probably send out an email for your project to the computing students, seems pretty interesting. I'd go but wont be availble at that time.

Good idea but I was looking at the timetables and most computing students seem to have class then, I'll chance it anyway.

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