Engineering Thread

This probably belongs in rant bitch moan but AARGH SHELTER GAARGH!!!
How's everyone else's coming along?

Yep two individual reports (calculations and healthsafetysustainabilityrecycling) and two group reports (design report and project management report).

It's not going well, but I'm doing my best to hammer out the group reports as best I can so my unfathomable laziness doesn't drag down any other group members.

Phew well at least there are other people in the same boat as me.
I've still got feckin sustainability and recycling to go...

That 2e3 thing was bound to happen. I don't write my own code, but at least I don't take someone else's code, I'm counting on the lost CA marks to motivate me to start tackling this stuff!

I went to the first 2E3 lecture I've been to in a while yesterday and it's the same as it always was. Whatever way he describes everything, it's always really hard to see how it's relevant to us or what use this info is in applications. "Computers tend to do this, and this bit refers to how computers do that, and all of this text here means that this registry will access that memory location."

I've a feeling that it's not his fault either, that there is just something inherently difficult about lecturing computer science to a class who aren't 100% focused on computer related subjects. The things we do in 2E3 lectures these days are awfully far away from what is being covered in all the other modules.

Jonathan wrote: »

The problem with 2E3 is that is too detailed for Civil and Mech but not detailed enough for those that want to do Computer.

Yeah that hits the nail on the head, a lot clearer than what I was saying.

devinejay wrote: »

Yeah that hits the nail on the head, a lot clearer than what I was saying.

When I did 2E3 back in the day our labs were passed on getting a simple 2D SDL based game running (a large amount of the code was provided to us, ie drawplayer, drawnme, drawweapon, etc. WE just had to figure out the position to draw things each frame). For the civil/mech crowd all they needed to do was getting a player moving round the screen shooting projectiles and they got a high mark. For the computers crowd people were doing all sorts of stuff from full on space invaders clones to multiplayer cooperative gameplay. Was a good project that allowed people to do as much or as little as they wanted.

And imo the best thing about it was that you had graphical feedback. A console program that prints out the area of a pizza is boring as hell but a relatively simple bid of code that moves an object around the screen is interesting and engaging even if the code that enables it is relatively simple.

My god that project is a shambles.

The whole "Build it" then "You're not allowed do anything that might help in the process of building it like use a ladder or a hammer, so innovate (read: magic that bad boy into existence)" thing is what gets me