DT228-Year 1 Chat [mega-merge]

GeeksRUS

does any1 find webcourses not working on firefox annoying? is DIT so desperate lick up to Gates..IE is crap..its too slow
can we have webcourses working on mozilla please? ignore Gates jealousy or threat of Firefox :pac:

hhiker

Webcourses works with Firefox for me, Chrome too. Of course, in some labs Webcourses breaks in Galway server.

Here's a simple installer for the borland compiler and scite editor we use in labs. Just download, unzip and run the installer and all done. No fiddling with downloads from studentdistrib and install locations.

http://bit.ly/6XBhd

Tested on vista/7 and works fine.

D.Q

bump.

how're yis all finding it now? im enjoying it myself...

Naikon

GeeksRUS wrote: »

does any1 find webcourses not working on firefox annoying? is DIT so desperate lick up to Gates..IE is crap..its too slow
can we have webcourses working on mozilla please? ignore Gates jealousy or threat of Firefox :pac:

I can't even upload assignments to webcourses from my pc:pac:

Microsoft provides incentives to DIT to run their software.
If that wasn't the case, Office 2K7 would not be sitting on the machines.

Whoever thought the 'ribbon' interfaces are intuitive needs a five across
the eyes in fairness.

Cheeky monkey

I ****ing dispise webcourses! its stopped me from uploading my second assignment for comp architecture and for some odd reason I uploaded my databases project but she never got it!


Also loving comp science all the lads are great crack only issue I'm having is keeping up with labs

hesanowhereman

Hello,

Just wondering what the exact story with Communications module is?

Bascially we need 60percent to pass is it?
Are the two assignments 50percent each?

In this second assignment what value of percent is going for presentation and what is going for the essay?

How much percent do we lose if were not present for our presentation?

Finally, if we dont pass communications does that mean we fail the year and have to repeat the year?

thanks

Eccentric Toast

Can someone fill us in on whats going on in Databases? missed a few classes.

Naikon

hesanowhereman wrote: »

Hello,

Just wondering what the exact story with Communications module is?

Bascially we need 60percent to pass is it?
Are the two assignments 50percent each?

In this second assignment what value of percent is going for presentation and what is going for the essay?

How much percent do we lose if were not present for our presentation?

Finally, if we dont pass communications does that mean we fail the year and have to repeat the year?

thanks

You need 40% overall to pass any module(unless otherwise indicated)but
you can make this up from both exams and CA.

Make sure you don't fail the module, because you will have to repeat it
in your second year provided you pass most of the other subjects.

You can't fail the year by failing one or two subjects.
Unless you fail 60 percent or more, you just repeat failed exams.

Shoot-a

I've ended up pretty far behind in most subjects dues to various reasons.
Any tips etc for getting back on top of things?
Obviously things like going to all lectures and labs are common sense.
Looking for suggestions for books, websites maybe even extra courses.

Also to add some life to this thread I shall pose the usual q:
How is everyone else finding the course so far?
I've heard that a couple have dropped out etc

Shoot-a

What exactly needs to be in our Access database?
Just tables with relationships or queries etc

Joebits

Shoot-a wrote: »

What exactly needs to be in our Access database?
Just tables with relationships or queries etc

Its the same as the PBL1 assignment we did. a big report on everything we did.
Access with relationships of the tables yes.
then we gotta do the 5 min presentation on what we did/ how we progressed week from week.

Stress!!

r0qi4162fux9kg

Has anyone started/finished the assignment? How'd you find it?
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Cheeky monkey

Goonto webcourses you'll find it through the sidebar

r0qi4162fux9kg

Cheeky monkey wrote: »

Goonto webcourses you'll find it through the sidebar

Sorry meant, find it as in... easy/hard/long etc.

Thanks,

Joebits

44. CH03-009
In a commencement address, Ivan Boesky said, "Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself." This is an example of the __________ factor influencing ethical behavior.

a. Social.
b. Organization.
c. Person.
d. Corporate.
e. Environment.

49. CH04-004
Providing individualized products quickly and with the production efficiencies once only associated with the mass production of uniform products can be accomplished by using techniques such as __________ and __________.

a. Lean production … individualized marketing.
b. Flexible manufacturing … supply chain customization.
c. Agile manufacturing … mass customization.
d. Quick process design … mass distribution management.
e. None of the above answers is correct.

Whats the answers to these please?;)

Soby

tut tut tut

projectmayhem

Joebits wrote: »

44. CH03-009
In a commencement address, Ivan Boesky said, "Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself." This is an example of the __________ factor influencing ethical behavior.

a. Social.
b. Organization.
c. Person.
d. Corporate.
e. Environment.

49. CH04-004
Providing individualized products quickly and with the production efficiencies once only associated with the mass production of uniform products can be accomplished by using techniques such as __________ and __________.

a. Lean production … individualized marketing.
b. Flexible manufacturing … supply chain customization.
c. Agile manufacturing … mass customization.
d. Quick process design … mass distribution management.
e. None of the above answers is correct.

Whats the answers to these please?;)

You might want to be aware that this is a public forum, and lecturers have in the past, and likely still read boards.ie - I've heard stories from classes.

Shoot-a

I find that plagiarism stuff quite funny; While researching for subjects I've come across identical material to that of the lecturers which hasn't been properly referenced ( I became aware of the intricates of plagiarism through an enlightening Communications module). There is of course the chance that I've stumbled on stolen material but again and again one begins to wonder.....

D.Q

haha 66 in the business..

wasnt at one lecture.

Cheeky monkey

We are the same you and I :P

D.Q

Cheeky monkey wrote: »

We are the same you and I :P

next semester will be different.:rolleyes:

NiteOwl2

Joebits wrote: »

Its the same as the PBL1 assignment we did. a big report on everything we did.
Access with relationships of the tables yes.
then we gotta do the 5 min presentation on what we did/ how we progressed week from week.

Stress!!

Anynoe know the name of that guy with the red beard who was doing the pbl databases labs ?? mad man sort-of ?

GeeksRUS

Naikon wrote: »

You need 40% overall to pass any module(unless otherwise indicated)but
you can make this up from both exams and CA.

Make sure you don't fail the module, because you will have to repeat it
in your second year provided you pass most of the other subjects.

You can't fail the year by failing one or two subjects.
Unless you fail 60 percent or more, you just repeat failed exams.

Sorry..but im bloody confused over here..so if i manage to scrape 40pc does that mean im clear for the year?? What are you on abt 60percent or more? Do you mean 60pc of the modules on the comp sci course?

Oh and by the way lads, the results is up for pbl2..got 69 overall..is that a 40percent without the exams? :S how do u calculate it?

Naikon

Yep, it simply boils down to having to get 40% of the total for
any subject to pass.So your CA and exams account for 100%
in total, and you have to get 40% of the total marks to pass.

The 60% thing is just a nice way of saying you don't generally
need to repeat the year if you only fail a few subjects. If you
fail more than half of your modules, you may have to repeat.

To calculate your assingment mark where you got 69, it's just:
69/100 * (percentage of overall mark allocated to assignment)

So if it worth 20% of the year, you have notched up 13.8%
already, which is added to your end of year exam mark.

GeeksRUS

Naikon wrote: »

Yep, it simply boils down to having to get 40% of the total for
any subject to pass.So your CA and exams account for 100%
in total, and you have to get 40% of the total marks to pass.

The 60% thing is just a nice way of saying you don't generally
need to repeat the year if you only fail a few subjects. If you
fail more than half of your modules, you may have to repeat.

To calculate your assingment mark where you got 69, it's just:
69/100 * (percentage of overall mark allocated to assignment)

So if it worth 20% of the year, you have notched up 13.8%
already, which is added to your end of year exam mark.

Ah, so basically for the whole addition of the modules, i need to get the 40% mark...
Do you or anyone know..how web development is? It looks like an easy module (then again i could be wrong). I was looking at some videos on youtube, it looks boring as in the syntax is plain and in notepad? Anywhere we can syntax highlighters for web dev..how did you/anyone find it? Obviosuly i mean > 1st years experience

Naikon

GeeksRUS wrote: »

Ah, so basically for the whole addition of the modules, i need to get the 40% mark...
Do you or anyone know..how web development is? It looks like an easy module (then again i could be wrong). I was looking at some videos on youtube, it looks boring as in the syntax is plain and in notepad? Anywhere we can syntax highlighters for web dev..how did you/anyone find it? Obviosuly i mean > 1st years experience

Yep. Web dev is okay, not my fav module but it's ok
if you do the labs. Attending the lectures isn't really
that important. It's easy to do well if you put in effort.

If you want a decent programmers text editor look
into Vim or Bluefish. Vim takes a little getting used
to though so be warned. Bluefish is easy to use and
has auto indentation and syntax highlighting.

I am quite certain eclipse can be used for non Java
work, but it's more of an advanced IDE.

Notepad is for masochists tbh.

GeeksRUS

Naikon wrote: »

Yep. Web dev is okay, not my fav module but it's ok
if you do the labs. Attending the lectures isn't really
that important. It's easy to do well if you put in effort.

If you want a decent programmers text editor look
into Vim or Bluefish. Vim takes a little getting used
to though so be warned. Bluefish is easy to use and
has auto indentation and syntax highlighting.

I am quite certain eclipse can be used for non Java
work, but it's more of an advanced IDE.

Notepad is for masochists tbh.

lol thanks..i wonder why we did C for a whole year and web dev for a semester...also i was trying the robocode by myself.since for some reason no one is teaching us as they claimed they would...i think by febraury it would be too late and sudden to learn robocode..so annoying..

but I cant seem to compile the code !! how do i get JAVAC and not JIKES?? Thanks...

GeeksRUS

Guys, if anyone is having problems understanding Architecture-especially binary numbers or stuff like busses..or Databases like SQL code, there are some bang on tutorials on youtube.gud luck

LeotCol

They gona put it on another date some time.

http://www.dit.ie/news/archive2010/openinghours

Shoot-a

Firstly a question: Where are we for these exams?

Secondly, how is everyone set? Comp arch doesn't seem too hard, same with databases. I just hope problem solving is postponed for a decent length of time!