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siblers · 31-01-2014 1:34am

Ugh..dreading them. Definitley failed one, wouldn't be surprised if I had to repeat 2 or 3.

JFlah · 31-01-2014 10:19am

siblers wrote: »

Ugh..dreading them. Definitley failed one, wouldn't be surprised if I had to repeat 2 or 3.

Ah hopefully it won,t be that bad. I think we are all dreading them though everyone seems to be thinking the worst.

JFlah · 01-02-2014 8:03pm

And whewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

siblers · 01-02-2014 8:07pm

Fair play and well done.
Have to repeat ****ing java, passed the exam but did so **** in the CAs (would have been nice to know what actual mark I had going into the exam) that it wasn't enough. Rest of them were grand and my average is good enough to get me into 4th year if I pass the repeat. Although if you fail a module, does that stop you from going into 4th year if you're going from an level 07 to level 08?

JFlah · 01-02-2014 8:14pm

siblers wrote: »

Have to repeat ****ing java, passed the exam but did so **** in the CAs (would have been nice to know what actual mark I had going into the exam) that it wasn't enough. Rest of them were grand and my average is good enough to get me into 4th year if I pass the repeat. Although if you fail a module, does that stop you from going into 4th year if you're going from an level 07 to level 08?

I,m not 100% sure but I think going into 4th year is based on GPA and having failed a module makes no difference

Yes the lack of knowing where you stood regarding CA marks is totally ridiculous, completely defeats the concept and purpose of continuous assesment!

JFlah · 06-03-2014 10:13am

Hi guys

The thread seems to have died a bit .. How is everyone getting on ??

siblers · 07-03-2014 11:11pm

Can't really say much cause I don't know who is reading this! I wish some first or second years posted in here though

JFlah · 07-03-2014 11:16pm

siblers wrote: »

Can't really say much cause I don't know who is reading this! I wish some first or second years posted in here though

Yes definitely needs new blood .. be nice to figure out a way to promote it .

Encrypted Pigeon · 07-03-2014 11:18pm

tell em all the answers for the Java modules are here.

JFlah · 07-03-2014 11:20pm

Encrypted Pigeon wrote: »

tell em all the answers for the Java modules are here.

Not bad ...

siblers · 08-03-2014 12:32am

Encrypted Pigeon wrote: »

tell em all the answers for the Java modules are here.

Or the secrets behind Critical Thinking and Innovation.

JFlah · 08-03-2014 12:34am

siblers wrote: »

Or the secrets behind Critical Thinking and Innovation.

You actually know those??

lukin · 14-03-2014 11:00am

Former computing student here; I suppose it must be a busy time for all of ye right now with projects etc.?

JFlah · 14-03-2014 12:41pm

lukin wrote: »

Former computing student here; I suppose it must be a busy time for all of ye right now with projects etc.?

Not for 3rd years we are all on placements at present

lukin · 16-03-2014 10:58am

JFlah wrote: »

Not for 3rd years we are all on placements at present

Nice to make a few quid. I hope ye are putting some away in the bank for when ye go back to college

I suppose with the recession it was hard for everyone to get a placement? Or maybe not;IT may not have been as badly affected as other areas.

JFlah · 16-03-2014 8:34pm

lukin wrote: »

Nice to make a few quid. I hope ye are putting some away in the bank for when ye go back to college
I suppose with the recession it was hard for everyone to get a placement? Or maybe not;IT may not have been as badly affected as other areas.

Unfortunately not all placements come with payment. I think some people found securing a placement difficult. There was a lot of students all looking for the same jobs.

Opinicus · 17-03-2014 4:43pm

If I remember correctly this year they were moving the work placement from fourth year to third year right? Then I suppose you have an overlap of third year and fourth year students looking for placement? Tough.

JFlah · 17-03-2014 7:10pm

Opinicus wrote: »

If I remember correctly this year they were moving the work placement from fourth year to third year right? Then I suppose you have an overlap of third year and fourth year students looking for placement? Tough.

Yes both third and fourth years on placement at same time this year .. then 4th year re-structured for what are this years 3rd year students..... but details are sketchy.

lukin · 18-03-2014 2:40pm

JFlah wrote: »

Unfortunately not all placements come with payment. I think some people found securing a placement difficult. There was a lot of students all looking for the same jobs.

Can be difficult to work if you are not getting paid. If you have to pay for rent while you are there it would be almost impossible I would say. If you were living at home with your folks you might be able to manage it.
If there are third and fourth years looking for placement at the same time then it would be hard for everyone to get a placement.
I actually though the work placement module had been moved to third year some time ago?

JFlah · 18-03-2014 3:02pm

lukin wrote: »

Can be difficult to work if you are not getting paid. If you have to pay for rent while you are there it would be almost impossible I would say. If you were living at home with your folks you might be able to manage it.
If there are third and fourth years looking for placement at the same time then it would be hard for everyone to get a placement.
I actually though the work placement module had been moved to third year some time ago?

No this is the first year of it so is a bit of a cross over issue ... could make 4th year difficult too ... a lot of modules as well as project.

JFlah · 15-04-2014 1:12pm

Tearing my hair out for a project idea .. have loads of bits of ideas but really need something concrete now

AntiRip · 15-04-2014 6:04pm

JFlah wrote: »

Tearing my hair out for a project idea .. have loads of bits of ideas but really need something concrete now

Don't think a concrete idea is needed. If you have an idea, your supervisor may expand on it for you. Better to have something you're interested in or at least half interested instead of something being given to you which you may have no interest in. Bit unfair that there's only 2 weeks given from end of WP to think of a major project idea!

JFlah · 16-04-2014 12:50pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Don't think a concrete idea is needed. If you have an idea, your supervisor may expand on it for you. Better to have something you're interested in or at least half interested instead of something being given to you which you may have no interest in. Bit unfair that there's only 2 weeks given from end of WP to think of a major project idea!

Crazy stuff , could at least have told us at beginning of placement .

siblers · 17-04-2014 12:53am

It's all too vague really, I haven't a clue what to come up with. Feel like i'm just gonna throw something together for the sake of it.

JFlah · 17-04-2014 10:43am

siblers wrote: »

It's all too vague really, I haven't a clue what to come up with. Feel like i'm just gonna throw something together for the sake of it.

I don't understand why like other institutions there is not a list of topics to pick from if you are struggling to come up with an idea

Encrypted Pigeon · 17-04-2014 6:45pm

Ball of stuff here that might be project worthy ??

http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/#/

gbro800 · 28-04-2014 7:56pm

How's the final project ideas going everyone? I've just thrown a few slides together. No idea of judging the scope or difficulty level, I'm going very wide scope and hopefully they can narrow it down for me...or point an exact direction... or something

JFlah · 28-04-2014 8:19pm

gbro800 wrote: »

How's the final project ideas going everyone? I've just thrown a few slides together. No idea of judging the scope or difficulty level, I'm going very wide scope and hopefully they can narrow it down for me...or point an exact direction... or something

I am literally tearing my hair out .. no idea of what I should be aiming for .. no slides as yet just a crappy word document.

I crave a little guidance!!

gbro800 · 28-04-2014 9:04pm

JFlah wrote: »

I am literally tearing my hair out .. no idea of what I should be aiming for .. no slides as yet just a crappy word document.

I crave a little guidance!!

I was going to do a Word doc but then they said slides so went with that, hopefully things will be clearer after Thursday, it'd be good to have an idea going early

JFlah · 28-04-2014 9:29pm

gbro800 wrote: »

I was going to do a Word doc but then they said slides so went with that, hopefully things will be clearer after Thursday, it'd be good to have an idea going early

Yeah would be good to get approval .. be able to tip away at research over the summer

siblers · 30-04-2014 12:40am

Haven't a clue what to do. Seen some fairly cool ideas from other colleges but I don't want to pitch for something that is gonna be crazy hard to do.

Encrypted Pigeon · 30-04-2014 12:49am

My project is due tomorrow and I still have no clue what I'm doing

I just follow the road where ever it leads me, hate pinning down ideas at the start because they will always change.

Also I hate turnitin, hurry the fck up will ya!!

JFlah · 30-04-2014 10:37am

This 4th year project pitching session is killing me at this stage.

I have an idea but no clue if it is appropriate has the right scope has too big a scope --- is even doable in the time frame.

I,m not even sure if ANY supervisor will have even a little expertise in my area which is worrying to say the least.

Also 3 minutes to pitch an idea that is going to take half a year of work !!

Seriously stressed out !

siblers · 30-04-2014 1:11pm

Finally found an idea to pitch but I've absolutely no idea what to put in the presentation slides . Not a hope will I be able to speak for 3 minutes either.

JFlah · 30-04-2014 1:43pm

siblers wrote: »

Finally found an idea to pitch but I've absolutely no idea what to put in the presentation slides . Not a hope will I be able to speak for 3 minutes either.

Wing it 3 minutes is'nt too long ---- I think

gbro800 · 30-04-2014 7:49pm

I'm similar, I know the area I want to study, and I've a project idea, but no clue about scope or difficulty level, I'm just going to tell them the direction I want to go and what I want to do and hopefully they can adjust the scope/difficulty levels to what they want... it mightn't be too bad, once you have an idea going they might guide us the right level

siblers · 01-05-2014 5:34pm

FITNESS APP!

AntiRip · 01-05-2014 5:37pm

siblers wrote: »

FITNESS APP!

You're very excited about that app

How did it go for ye?

siblers · 01-05-2014 5:59pm

AntiRip wrote: »

You're very excited about that app

How did it go for ye?

Was grand, was pretty relaxed. Only 13 of us (presuming everyone passes repeats) coming back for 4th year. 3 of the 13 pitched for a fitness app, was funny.

AntiRip · 01-05-2014 6:29pm

siblers wrote: »

Was grand, was pretty relaxed. Only 13 of us (presuming everyone passes repeats) coming back for 4th year. 3 of the 13 pitched for a fitness app, was funny.

Any problems with 3 of you doing fitness apps? I suppose if you are all using different technologies it shouldn't be a problem.

Thinking of an algorithm I suppose is the key issue?

siblers · 01-05-2014 7:38pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Any problems with 3 of you doing fitness apps? I suppose if you are all using different technologies it shouldn't be a problem.

Thinking of an algorithm I suppose is the key issue?

They want the 3 of us to meet up to make sure we go in different directions. I'll either end up using shimmer sensors to record a person's activities or else come up with a new idea. The lecturers made a big deal about the algorithms alright, seems to be one of the most important elements of the project

JFlah · 01-05-2014 8:15pm

siblers wrote: »

They want the 3 of us to meet up to make sure we go in different directions. I'll either end up using shimmer sensors to record a person's activities or else come up with a new idea. The lecturers made a big deal about the algorithms alright, seems to be one of the most important elements of the project

some sort of a running feature included - measure speed using accelerometer or some such ?

We should have all pitched fitness apps for the craic

AntiRip · 01-05-2014 8:34pm

siblers wrote: »

They want the 3 of us to meet up to make sure we go in different directions. I'll either end up using shimmer sensors to record a person's activities or else come up with a new idea. The lecturers made a big deal about the algorithms alright, seems to be one of the most important elements of the project

Something like this for Android would be cool.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/MeterMe-Fitness-Application/6244843

Not sure about the scope of it, it may not be 'complicated enough' or too advanced altogether. Beautiful and very clean UI though.

JFlah · 01-05-2014 8:42pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Something like this for Android would be cool.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/MeterMe-Fitness-Application/6244843

Not sure about the scope of it, it may not be 'complicated enough' or too advanced altogether. Beautiful and very clean UI though.

Oohhhh that's nice !

siblers · 01-05-2014 9:48pm

JFlah wrote: »

some sort of a running feature included - measure speed using accelerometer or some such ?

We should have all pitched fitness apps for the craic

Yeah I was thinking of someting like that, use GPS etc to log where they ran as well. Think there's libraries availble for a lot of that stuff so it might not be crazy hard to do. There's a few different directions I can take it in at least which is pretty good.

That Meter.Me App is pure filth

JFlah · 01-05-2014 10:04pm

siblers wrote: »

Yeah I was thinking of someting like that, use GPS etc to log where they ran as well. Think there's libraries availble for a lot of that stuff so it might not be crazy hard to do. There's a few different directions I can take it in at least which is pretty good.

That Meter.Me App is pure filth

Yeah I think ye all have plenty of scope to produce 3 totally different projects.

Cross platform/hybrid app built on html5 is an option too - build once available on multiple platforms is a great angle.

AntiRip · 01-05-2014 10:34pm

JFlah wrote: »

Cross platform/hybrid app built on html5 is an option too - build once available on multiple platforms is a great angle.

That's a great idea with the HTML5. Also I think C++ is a cross platform language.

Also have a look at this
http://phonegap.com

Really really cool stuff.

JFlah · 01-05-2014 11:30pm

AntiRip wrote: »

That's a great idea with the HTML5. Also I think C++ is a cross platform language.

Also have a look at this
http://phonegap.com

Really really cool stuff.

phonegap is unreal LOADS of tutorials available on it too

siblers · 02-05-2014 12:13am

Sweet. I'm gonna try make a basic app over the summer just to give me an idea of what to do. I kinda like the idea that we get to implement the project straight away instead of having to start in semester 2. Gives more time to focus on the code etc

gbro800 · 02-05-2014 9:35pm

siblers wrote: »

Sweet. I'm gonna try make a basic app over the summer just to give me an idea of what to do. I kinda like the idea that we get to implement the project straight away instead of having to start in semester 2. Gives more time to focus on the code etc

Yeah, they were saying it'll be more agile compared to just all research first and coding after. Good to have a head start too over the summer. I heard last years crowd started September not even having a project idea. Adding a few unique twists to those gym app ideas is the next step

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