Week 2 of CS3216

It’s been just 3 days since I touched my hands on the first FB assignment. Loads of new terms and vocabulary have flooded into my brain. PHP, MySQL, web server, EC2, AWS, JavaScript and AjAx…Finally I came to understand my senior’s warning how a layman who doesn’t know anything about web development will die during the first few weeks, or even days.

However, things are actually very promising. Just during the past two nights spent on PHP eBooks and the FB assignment notes, I already felt that I’ve learnt quite a lot. With my past experience in C++ and Java, as well software development, not abundant but rather well practiced, I believe it won’t be an impossible task to grasp PHP and JavaScript for the first assignment.

Anyway time to stop here. A good programmer never writes anything else rather than technical stuff in his blog. From next blog onwards, I’ll try to note down all the technical breakthroughs we’ll have accomplished, as a record for ourselves and for the benefit of others. 

What I hope to learn in CS3216

What I hope to learn in CS3216

Firstly I would like to send in my deep apology for my absence from the very first lecture. I tried to negotiate with the travel agency for a few times but didn’t get the ticket changed. Anyway, back to the topic. I really don’t have an exact idea about what I will learn in CS3216. However, based what I heard from my friends, there will be a big leap in my programming skills as a CS minor student. I dearly love programming and this is a good chance for me to meet up with some other languages apart from the basic C++ and Java. To pick up some very practical languages like HTML or CSS is a big reason that drove me to take this module. Teamwork is another big aspect of this module and I hope I can keep up the good spirit I had had with my teammates when taking the module CS2103. Besides, I also hope to learn the entrepreneurial process which transforms a bunch of code and files to real products. That’s something I’ve never touched before.

My absence from the first lecture won’t leave me alone in the class without a group. I have a few friends taking this module as well and I’ve agreed to form the first group with them. Definitely I also hope to meet other new faces later on when new groups are to be formed.

Perhaps I can foresee that a great journey awaits but I couldn’t really tell what I will exactly learn in this module. Maybe things will become clear till the last day, on which I exactly know what I have learnt. To make sure I won’t get confused like a blind fly along the way, the best way is to communicate effectively, stay close with the class and the tutors, and also work hard, making each day count.