Early Bird

December 14, 2005 on 8:33 am | In Life |

Well, here I am, sitting in my classroom at school with my laptop.
I just concluded that I wouldn’t be starting for another hour. I got up at 7 AM (which is quite late compared to other people, perhaps, but for me, it’s relatively early) only to find out I could also have gotten up at 8.
Typical.

Currently I’m working on two projects at school, a game for a mobile phone (the course is creatively called ‘Game’) and a case study for database design (course ‘DbApp’ - Can YOU guess what it stands for?) concerning an imaginary airport, where I have to build the database for things such as checking in, ‘flight management’, gates, etcetera.
Quite interesting yet quite boring.
The game course was designed to teach the students all about OOP.
I could already do basic programming 5 years ago, 7 years if you count QBasic. OOP is something I already did 3+ years ago, mainly with Borland Delphi.

So the course has been rather boring so far. However the lectures are over now and we’ll just be building our (did I mention they were 2-man projects?) game and database.

So, we got handed an engine with the task to write a game. We chose to write Arkanoid. For those who don’t know what Arkanoid is: Here’s a screenshot. Please note that this is not a screenshot of the game we have at the moment, but something I just took from some random site using google image search.

As I write these last words, the classroom is beginning to fill up with classmates. Guess I’ll get to ‘work’.

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  1. Sounds a bit like my CS1002 course, which was teaching the basics of Java and OOP. Although I hadn’t really done Java before, I know C and various similar languages of course, so the course was fairly easy. Internet Programming is the next module, starting in Feburary… apparently that one’s a bit more interesting. :)

    Comment by Owen Rudge — December 14, 2005 #

  2. An airport database sounds a lot more fun than the piece of crap library one I’m about to demo to the assessors in 45 minutes. :P

    Comment by Sionide — December 14, 2005 #

  3. Cool to see various things:

    • orudge is apparently doing the same courses as me, because the next course, starting somewhere in late january, is about dynamic webpages, IIRC.
    • Sionide also works with assessors.
      My school is using the same system for the first time this year. No more tests or exams (apart from diagnostic ones), we just have to prove we master various ‘indicators’ of a subject by making our stuff and if some things are unclear, we have to come to an assessment.
      Interesting.

    Comment by GoneWacko — December 14, 2005 #

  4. It won’t be the same course, as such, unless your stuff has “University of St Andrews” written all over it? But it probably has a similar structure. ;)

    Comment by Owen Rudge — December 14, 2005 #

  5. Well that’s what I did mean. The course is similar so far.

    Comment by GoneWacko — December 14, 2005 #

  6. I got a heart attack from such a “fast” update.

    Comment by kopa — December 14, 2005 #

  7. Wacko Rules!

    Comment by Medic — December 17, 2005 #

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