Week 10

The lecture today was about security and privacy. Which I have been learning about since I’ve been learning about computers and ict in school (a long time)
It also happens that my group chose encryption as a subject for a computer networks coursework.
Its lectures like these that make me sometimes think that they are for people with practicaly no experience in computing. Just a short entry today as I have allot of coursework deadlines coming up.

Also had to find partner for last coursework took a while as didn’t all the people I did no were in groups. I guess I wouldn’t have minded a list of every ones names or something.

Week 8

The second piece of course work was due yesterday.
This time we had been made to mark to finally year student’s project work. I m under the idea that that we were secretly being made to do this so they didn’t have to mark them sneaky!

they coursework didn’t seam hard but they sheer size of the two projects made it harder, they were both about 50 pages long which meant they did take a while to read.
I felt another problem with this coursework is that it felt like I was being bias to one of the projects. It may have just been worse, but I think I marked the second one down just because it was second.
I fairness is a skill you learn when teaching or when you have more than two project to chose from.

Also after reading the two projects I must say that I’m not looking forward to having to do one myself.

on another point I saw my friends business placement website today and was amazed at how detailed it was one page was literally 100 of placments each with document about the job and company. Clearly a highly detailed site like this for computing student would be liked.

Week 6

Yesterday I had my interview with bob champion. I was a bit tense before hand, which is something I’m sure everyone gets even if the interview is a fake. I was probably tense because I’m not much of a talker and don’t like being put on the spot. I suppose fake interviews like this are here to help me with that.

I wasn’t sure if I should turn up in a suit but wore one any way. It turned out that most people did which made me feel better as I wasn’t the odd one out.

any way after waiting for a little while I had my interview it started ok but turned into me relying on my projector slides too much I defiantly should have spend more time preparing stuff like prompt cards and learning the details

After the presentation I was asked some questions which seemed more relaxed than the presentation, and bob seemed quite genuinely interested in some of the experience I was mentioning. A nice way to round it off.....
Apart from him saying he wouldn’t have hired me based on my CV.
the irony.