说到今天的Assignment Presentation,可以说是好坏参半。不说技术上的缺点,先说说我们沟通的失败。技术上的缺点可以透过更多的coding更改,但是大家对于assignment的投入程度,我觉得需要一点检讨。因为这次的presentation,我组内的某成员因为没办法上网而无法时刻跟进我们连续三天疯狂编程的进度,所以在presentation的过程非常不顺利。到我回到家重新检讨,我才发觉和她同组那么多次了,这个现象并不是第一次发生。其是我不能说是谁的错,因为谁是谁非并非由我做主。
后来跟Emily谈了后,我唤起了更多回忆。现说说这次的assignment的事情,我记得,上个星期五,我和另外一个GroupMember相约在library谈assignment比较关键的coding问题。吃完午饭后,我就独自一个人走回lib,中途遇到她,她就问我要去那里,assignment的东西要怎么做。我所肯定记得的是我说我要去lib和另一个group member谈,然后assignment各做各的,之后我来拼起来。如果要说我错,我承认当时并没有明言邀请她跟着来。在今天的presentation后我透过朋友口中知道她在我走后眼泛泪光。但是我要说的是,我当时真的以为,真的expect她会跟着,结果却没有,那么我也当她没问题就自行离去了。
说说算算也不是第一次了,印象中没有多少次我可以找到一个partner可以和我一般了解整个assignment的过程。同组的group member不是完全空白,就是知道一半这样子。印象中也没有多少次有人主动问我整个进度到了什么程度。也就是因为这样,我非常在乎整个流程到底怎样了,慢慢地,变成我自己在主导整个assignment的进度。我不知道这个是不是我自己的感觉,我也希望不是,因为这种感觉让我觉得很不舒服,因为我不是一个自大的人。因为每次当分组的时候,如果我被分到哪一组的话,那组一定会有若干人会高兴?我希望我只是太敏感。如果这样造成大家不过问、不关心进度的话,那么,我下次就不要那么在乎了。要知道,控制整个assignment的流程,然后make sure everybody get informed是不容易的事,唯一一次我相信整组人了解发生什么似的,只有上个学期的其中一份报告(ADIS Report 2)。那次之后,因为讲师的误导,再加上每次都是我去找讲师了解更多详情,造成我知道得越来越多,但是我却没有办法把我知道的传达出去,因为我不可能知道大家的了解程度到多少,大家真正concern的是什么,结果到头来,还是我一个人赶完全部report。
以上种种原因和后果,结果造成我觉得自己越来越自私,但是我刚想(发觉不应该用领悟两个字)到,每次assignment大家的投入程度并不相同,间接造成我很难去distribute我所知道的东西,相信很多人也是如此。在这里,我希望我所有认识的,不认识的,曾经合作的,未曾合作的朋友同学陌生人,给于你的意见。如果你觉得三言两语没办法说得清的话,欢迎trackback,谢谢。
I got so impressed after looking at my friend’s assignment interface. It was simply just tooooooo nice. Therefore, me and my group members agreed to decorate our assignment a bit. Besides that, since we started using MDI, then the whole structure has to be revised.
We have added a navigation menu, so that the bar up there doesn’t look too plain (what an excuse). Then we added in some shortcut button suggested by one of my group members. We have also removed our so-called “logo”, since it was not so nice. And lastly, almost all buttons are now with icons so that user can see them clearly (hehehe).
Our system is usable at the moment as long as u do not key in the wrong thing (like you enter letters when you are asked to enter numeric) because we do not have time to do complete validation. We expect all the validation will be done at the time we submit our assignment though. Below are some of the screenshots taken from my assignment project. You can click on them for better enlarged view.
前天是我们的presentation日,因为第一节和第二节,也就是最后一节,也就是我们的presentation时间,相差了有5个小时,所以我们就“善用”那五个小时的空挡草草准备一份比较能看的powerpoint presentation。
因为相隔的时间太过于冗长,所以过了两三个小时难免会开始想睡。于是,在我们完成了所有的slide后,就出去喝杯茶清醒一下……之后呢,我们就回到工作间(其实是我们其中一个人租的房间),重新审查,并且开始彩排。彩排完毕后,我们就走路回到我们的campus。
戏肉到了……在回到campus后,漫步回课室的期间,一对家长团(开放日)竟然很荣幸看到我们一群人。这群显然是新生的家长们在工作人员的带领下四处参观我们学院的设施。因为他们前进的步伐非常缓慢,所以我们一群人唯有跟在后面慢慢走,反正时间尚早。好死不死,突然间他们竟然停下,在一个可以通往我们其中一个食堂的小路前听着工作人员说该小路可以直通食堂。这个时候,我身边的朋友她竟然很倒米得说了一句:“切,(食堂的食物)很难吃的……”。顿时间,一切事物停格了,我因为太尴尬的关系,所以找了个小路窜了开去,划清界限。哈哈哈,隐约中似乎看到家长们全部看着我的朋友,而解说员也“窒”了一下。
之后,我和其他的朋友连忙快步走想办法抛开家长团,后来总算把他们撇开了,我们才开始讨论刚才发生的窝囊事……后来我们一行四人强烈谴责该乱开炮的女生,因为我们认为就算食堂的东西如此不堪(事实的确如此),也不该这样“诚实”的,因为……新生到了才有得好受,现在学精了只会显示出我们多么无知,因为我们在第一个学期都是在食堂解决我们的饥饿的,哈哈哈哈。
如果给你一个机会想你会在20年后要做什么的话,你会有什么样的答案。刚刚和朋友聊了一下,本来是关于某某人的事情,后来我在谈话中看到这个课题真的很感兴趣。当我听到我朋友说过他听到朋友说甘心当一个文员的时候赶到非常讶异,我不是在歧视,但是我却很佩服她可以真的读了Diploma in Computer Science & Management Mathematics后去当一个文员。人生在世,甘心归于平淡的有多少个?
我不敢说自己有什么大计,反正这个课题不要求我真的对它负责。我希望能够再读完comp science能去读MBA。我希望能在自己有生之年可以拥有一个堪算成功的生意。我希望能够自助旅行到一些国家。我希望我的父母亲可以很安乐。希望的东西太多,多到写不完。不过人是因为有希望才能不断地进步。因为有了渴望达到愿望的动力,所以人才会不断追求知识,不断尝试,才会不断进步。
刚才说过我是读ComputerScience的,乍一听可能真的和MBA真的无关。的确,在我考虑读CompScience之前,我是没有想过去读business的。后来学的东西越多,对着电脑的时间越长,而压力越来越大的时候,我发觉到我毕生将会如此一直延续下去。我不是不喜欢成为一个programmer,in fact,当你完成一个程序的时候,那种成就感是非常的振奋人心的。至是我怕到时我会终有一日会厌倦这种生活。这些事情很难说的,也许有一天我真的疯狂爱上了其他的职业也说不定。事业呢,可能是受“富爸爸”系列丛书的影响吧,我不能接受职业=事业的这种解释。而能够建立属于我的事业当然也非易事,尤其是我这种中学开始选修理科的人。
我是那种不能一直面对同样东西一段长时间的人,所以我很喜欢旅行那种感觉。向往背包旅行是可能受了媒体的诱惑吧,很多人开始有自己分享资讯的能力了,所以你常常会看到很多背包客在网上发布自己的笔记。普通导游导览的旅行也有去过,但是我一点都不喜欢那个过程,因为我们就像鸭子一般被赶来赶去(导游倒是很friendly)。而背包客的时间相比之下更加flexible咯,所以不须要奔波劳累。
父母亲安乐想必是很多为人子女最想的事情吧,我想没人真的会想激死老豆揾山拜的吧。
Wahaha, the presentation was just going fine just that our group has missed some feature that is suppose to be ready as mentioned in our proposal. Besides that, our lecturer also required us to prepare some new modules in order to make the system more complete. However, since we havn’t learn anything about MDI yet I think I will just wait until all three of us master that chapter then only we start our second version.
Our group are quite fortunate since there are not much problems occur during our presentation. The group after us keep facing technical problems and this helped the last group because they have another week to prepare for this presentation. However, if I were them I will feel a bit dissapointed. Hohoho.
Just spent half a day finishing the interface for my group’s system – library system. And since we couldnt come out with a name that is interesting, so we just simply name the system as “Up2U Library System”, sounds dumb ho…?
Showing above is the main screen interface for our system. The system is separated into 3 parts with 2 modules each. I am in charge of the administration part of the system. Following is one of the screens for my module.
Look dumb huh… Basically, since MDI is not yet taught by the lecturer and I am really to busy to learn that in advance, so I link all the interfaces with “Unload” and “Load” commands. Therefore there is nothing really special about our system. Probably after learning MDI in the coming weeks then I will convert the whole system to MDI, hehehe.
“铃……”,该死的闹钟还是无意外地准时响起来。熟睡中的翔还是很公式化地跳了起来,然后很熟练地把闹钟关掉,接着就像丧尸般缓缓倒回床上,继续刚才未完成的美梦。这个时候是早上五点半,虽然闹钟备有一个按了五分钟就重新响一次的功能,但是翔却没有一次失手唤出这个功能,而直接把闹钟关掉。
半小时后,仍然睡眼惺忪的翔终于甘愿起身了,起身后的他看了看时间,吓了一大跳,于是用跑一百米的速度冲下楼很公式化得倒了杯牛奶来喝。接着就上网顺便做一些事情。大概六点二十分左右,他又飞也似地跑回楼上梳洗换衣。因为今天清晨偏冷,所以他就穿了两件衣服以免着凉。然后,他就跟他刚起身且梳洗完毕的母亲和妹妹一起出发。到火车站的时候,翔和母亲分手然后踏上去学院的路程。
八点钟到了学院后,因为这一课老师吩咐过要到图书馆视听室上一堂“有趣”的课,所以翔很准时地走到图书馆的方向去。一路上,阳光的猛烈程度让翔开始诅咒,而且由于翔穿上两件衣服的关系,闷热的感觉更加令他心烦。大概十分钟后,满身汗水的翔终于到了图书馆。这时,晴朗的天空突然划过一道闪电,因为翔看到图书馆前小猫几只的冷清况。再看,原来图书馆还有大概二十分钟,即八点半才开始开放。
经过艰辛的等待后,八点半终于到了,而图书馆也如时开了。终于能够感受到冷气的翔很悠闲地走向视听室准备半个小时后的课程。因为视听室要等到九点钟才开放,所以翔等,再等,一直等到差不多全班同学的到来,可是视听室还是未见开放。这个时候,已经是九点多钟了。大概九点十五分,事先收到风的同学终于肯说讲师将会缺席,但是课程将会继续。虽说课程继续,但是视听室却空空如也,最重要的是,它还保持着上锁的状态。
等到大概九点半,寂寞难耐的翔送了封短讯出去给讲师报告视听室摆空城计的故事。大概几分钟后,讲师摇个电话回来通知嘱咐翔到办公室查询为什么视听室还没开。翔于是很后悔地走向办公室了解详情,在确定视听室将会很快开放后就走回去大家集合的地点通知大家准备上课。闹得来,已经是九点四十五分了,这个时候也就是离预定课程结束时间大概十五分钟。讲师适时再摇个电话了解详情,然后通知翔取消这个课程,因为十五分钟是不可能足够的。于是很快地,翔把这个“喜讯”传出去,然后一大班人马上作鸟兽散。
一个多钟的空课,大伙儿走到图书馆附近的咖啡屋吃早餐,然后走到接下来的课的课室,准备上接下来的课。因为这个星期轮不到翔参与,所以翔也乐得清闲。无惊无险上完这课后,已经是十二点中午了。由于天气闷热,所以大家舍远求近吃个简单的午餐,顺便提神。这是因为刚才那课的讲师虽然笑脸盈盈,但是暗地里她的声音却有一股慑人的力量,往往在上完她的课后,大家都会昏昏沉沉。最恐怖的就是,接下来的两个小时,大伙儿还要继续对着她和她的折磨。
其实在午餐前,有几个同学已经宣告阵亡,所以没办法参与我们待会儿跟讲师的精神战争。在准备充沛后,大家就用丧尸走路的速度步回班上。毫无意外,当她开始授课,翔就开始昏昏沉沉,讲堂仿佛成了一场学生和讲师间的战场。慢慢地,整个课室的氛围也开始慢慢沉下来,因为大家被笑脸盈盈的讲师俘虏了。由于讲师年纪颇大,而且笑脸盈盈,而且蛮唠叨,所以大家就在没有警觉心的情况下全数毫不费力地被她俘虏。很不巧地,或者说很幸运地,我们间中可能被幸运之神眷顾,所以发生了数次电流中断的事件。但是也很不幸的,这几次电流中断的持续时间都不维持得很长。终于结束了课程,我们成群人因为已经变成战俘,所以不能随便离开学院,所以就留下来等待接下来的课程。这个时候,已经是三点钟了,而且,很不巧的,在她刚宣布结束本日课程后,黑暗就完全地,无情地占领了整个学院。
灯光熄灭了,风扇不再转,空调也不再冷,这个情况,无疑是对身处炎热的天气之下的我们是一种超越精神的折磨。为了避难,我们一大群人走到一些比较凉快的地方休息。大概四点钟的时候,大伙儿又到另一个战俘收容所准备接受监视,但是可能是黑暗仍然努力攻打学院的关系,所以等了许久也未见有人出现监视我们。这个时候,本来已经阵亡的某女将军又复活了,于是她又回来和我们并肩作战。但是我们对她的光荣阵亡那种尊敬也在她的归来烟消云散。在军心持续动荡的这个时候,另一个相信也是和我们一样为战俘的通讯员同志走过来告诉我们黑暗已经攻陷整个学院,并且劝告我们马上逃亡以免再度被俘。已经对被俘开始感到恐怖的我们当然马上作鸟兽散,虽然没办法再次回到自己的地头,但是也比被俘的日子好过。所以,我们一伙展开了没有明天,没有归路的逃亡生涯。
p/s : 因为昏昏沉沉,加上很久没买KTM的火车票,迷糊的翔买错火车票。买错什么的票呢?你自己看。
Few days ago, I posted up my response on the e-learning issue as requested by my lecturer. I was quite shocked after found out that not more than 5 people posted their response. Is this a sign showing that even though we are studying computer science, but we still do not appreciate and utilize the internet connection wisely? Or this shows that our e-learning system has some problem because it doesn’t help attracting students to login (in other word, it sucks)?
But then, I am quite impressed that there are people who rely on the internet resources in studying in my course. This is because in my college, we are rely on the lecturer for notes. If a lecturer does not provide notes for photocopying, then he/she will be in trouble when students evaluate him/her during the end of semester. Not many who are really interested finding out more on the subject somewhere else and this is probably why not many logged into the BlackBoard and post their response.
In my response, I pointed out that constant electrical supply is a main factor in order to make e-learning a success. It is quite insulting when we are already used to electricity black-outs even in this so-called “Advanced State”. Besides that, decent broadband coverage is also another important factor because not many residents in Malaysia are able to surf online with the help of broadband. Even one can surf using broadband, if he/she is using Streamyx’s service, then he/she will probably suffer from the constantly service down. Even though there are other ISPs providing broadband connection but they cant provide low cost connection. This is because wired connection that is generally cheaper is already monopolized by Telekom. In order to use other ISPs’ services, we will need to pay more for the hardware because they use wireless technology to deliver broadband connection.
If these problems are left unbothered, then I do not expect E-learning will become a trend in Malaysia.
Recently our English for Science unit’s lecturer posted an issue about e-learning at the college’s “e-learning” system (which is actually a blackBoard Learning System that is also used by many other colleges) and we are required to write a response to that issue. She also provided a link to a page that clearly explains about “e-learning”. Until now, I have really no idea on this issue since I am still reading that webpage while I am posting this.
If only looking at my college’s so called “e-learning” system, I really don’t like it much because it is not as useful as I expected. Blackboard Learning System is no doubt a good system handling “e-learning” things but it is not being well used at my college. I myself prefer looking for information at another websites rather than the e-learning system because there are almost nothing provided by our lecturer through the system except for some lecture notes / tutorial questions / assignment questions etc. I have a friend studying at another college and I heard from him that he can get a lot more things through their college BlackBoard System besides notes / assignments etc. And the participation of his lecturer is much better compared to my college. I found that sometimes it is very rare to see any lecturer to join in our discussion in the discussion board and probably this is why Blackboard System is not popular in my college.
But these are only some problems that only occur in my college, and this doesn’t mean that they will happen in other colleges as well. Therefore these cannot be the only points in my response to the issue, *sigh*. Now I would need to start thinking what to write and post them this Friday since I do not have much spare time because the units I took in this semester are quite tough (at least 4 credit hours) and I am definitely don’t wish the same thing happened as the “Introductory to Discrete Mathematics” unit last semester.
直到目前为止,我的学生生涯中,很不巧的没有和太多老师有接触。不过其中几个令我印象深刻的,是我的英文老师们。呵呵。可能是因为要鼓励我们说英文吧,我发现英文老师们都很长气的。哇咔咔。
正因为如此,我并不太排斥上英文课,不过也没有为此改进了我的英文能力,呵呵呵。原因是因为在她们说她们的grandmother stories的时候,我总是把注意力投入到另外的地方。当然偶尔也会听听看她说什么,然后过后就拿那些故事来当作同学间的玩笑课题(很坏咧)。就拿我高中的英文老师为例,我们很喜欢上她的课(除非她有给功课,她是个很麻烦的老师……这是后话),尤其是她讲解文学(Literature)的那几课。她简直是做编剧的材料,因为从文学课的课文她可以扯到她的家人的故事。还要全部都是悲剧。不过先搞清楚,在当时我们是很同情她的遭遇的,只不过在她越说越多,而且越来越匪夷所思的时候,我们只好选择听过就算了。还有一点很特别的就是每当上文学课的时候,我们一大班都依她的要求全部集中在班内的中心点,然后好像小学生般围着她上课。呵呵呵。
想不到,上了学院,还是有类似的老师/讲师。为了引起我们对学习的兴趣,今天,我们一大班人在她的要求下全部到了图书馆的视听室观赏了一部又澳洲某机构看来是N年前录制的教育节目。节目是关于怎么做一个research的,呵呵呵。可惜,有一大半时间我都在猜测影片中人所说的字词(因为澳洲人的口音和我们平时听的英文不太一样再加上小弟的英文也不大好),只能大概知道内容罢了。不过总好过没有吧,之后,在我们眼里有些讨厌的Lecturer就三言两语帮我们重新整理刚才所看到的内容。
上了她三堂课,她给我们的印象是凡是都按照规矩进行,甚至被规矩所局限。你有听过一组人做assignment要签合约的吗?而且还要花一整个小时来解说简单的10条规矩(原因之一是因为她说话的速度,如果你看过The Matrix,她的速度就有如里面的所谓Program的速度,就是Oracle/Architect那一伙人的速度)。真服了她哦,而且看她不苟言笑的样子,很难想象如同猴子出闸的我们如何继续顶下去。
不过还好,这个学期还是有和我们类似的Tutor(助教吗?)教我们Windows Programming(VB),他真的很好笑哦,一整课都在强调自己有多么帅气,虽然我们没有一个有同感。很不巧的,第一课我就被他摆了上台,以达到活学活用的精神。他当时所要讲解的是Objects, Properties & Event在VB中的意思,所以把我搞出去后,指着我把我比喻成一个Object,之后我的身高体重等就是Properties。然后不知道他怎么扯的问我有没有洗鞋子(运动鞋),诚实如我当然很老实的说没有(因为银色的鞋子变成了黑灰色。然后他很做作的“弹开”,但是却说我其中一个”properties”是“鞋很干净”……最后到了event,当然,是说当某事件发生了,会有什么后果。他拍了拍我肩膀,并说“当我拍他的肩膀,他会说I Love You!”。好了,第一次就很应酬的照做。第二次又来,这次是I Love Mr. xx(他)。我开始Fed Up了,就直接说,I don’t Love Mr. XX(他),呵呵呵。
他真的很有趣啦,而且很了解我们学生的心声,所以他也没有cover太多Theory的东西,因为他知道我们会从讲师的课内知道,所以并没有花太多时间在内。反倒是Practical Part就花比较多的时间,因为班内很多人很明显Practical跟不上。如果这样的Tutor/Lecturer再多几个就好了,呵呵呵。
Slum,基本上大概是指一些比较次都市的人口集聚地吧(我想),而Slumdog,据朋友之前说过当两个名次不当的组织在一起,那么应该都不是什么好东西。我不晓得这部电影中文被糟蹋成什么片名,所以此篇的title就随便凑一个。基本上当这部电影差不多结束的时候,我是差点快要整个决堤崩溃的。我不晓得是年级越来越大的关系而造成自己越渐眼浅还是什么的,可是看到他幸运获得终极奖金,从整个电影不断拱上来的氛围,这一切都非常具有煽动情绪的因素。
Wahaha, the presentation was just going fine just that our group has missed some feature that is suppose to be ready as mentioned in our proposal. Besides that, our lecturer also required us to prepare some new modules in order to make the system more complete. However, since we havn’t learn anything about MDI yet I think I will just wait until all three of us master that chapter then only we start our second version.
Our group are quite fortunate since there are not much problems occur during our presentation. The group after us keep facing technical problems and this helped the last group because they have another week to prepare for this presentation. However, if I were them I will feel a bit dissapointed. Hohoho.
一如往常的,他按下了软件现实的播放键,每晚定期广播已经是他每晚的习惯,尽管听众只有她一个。广播的事情弄好后,咖啡机也恰好这个时间飘来了浓浓的香气,是她上星期从外地买回来的咖啡。盛起了一杯,他回到电脑前继续刚才未完成工作,咖啡持续放肆的挥发着霸道的香气弥漫整个充斥着沉闷气息的工作间,啊,终于快要完成了,他想。
曾经问过老妈子,如果他再度怀孕,再怀孕过程中发觉肚中怀的是个有缺陷的婴儿,她会不会考虑生出来。她给我的答案很出乎我的预料,她说她不会考虑生下来。我问她不会心疼得咩,她则答道生出来孩子会更辛苦。从我的观点,我以身为父母会很心疼自己的孩子而不会考虑到堕了他。而我却少算了如果孩子生出来后,父母付出的辛苦虽然他们会不计较,但是他们绝对不会让自己的孩子受苦。所以他们宁愿自己心疼也不要把他们带到这个世界。
梦,是一种可以推动人去完成某种mission的动力,但是很多时候,不切实际的梦,会让外人感觉很好笑。最近听得最好笑的梦,就是J妈的梦。且让我首先铺陈一下故事的背景,我家隔壁的房子目前被屋主计划卖掉(谁人要做我的邻居?我诅咒你天天出门塞到死,嘿嘿),所以门口挂了一个牌子说要卖。可是这牌子挂上了甚久,却仍然乏人问津(据我妈说,因为没有人来看过这房子)。不过看了看开的价码,感觉上是很合理的,那是原价的百分之……你觉得我能告诉你咩?总之给我的感觉是,不太可能卖的出的价钱。原因?是因为这里的交通在这十多年间越来越糟糕,二来购物中心林立在一个交通规划完全交白卷,甚至监考官还是什么的还要求考生赔偿一些精神上的损失的程度(负分),是另一个扣分的指数。还有?就是公共交通的效率虽然这几年有显著的提高,但是碍于烂交通,还不能为此加分。