Friday, March 17, 2006
Technical problems, coursework and the Visitor Pattern
Yesterday's lecture began badly. The classroom pc refused all attempts at logging in by me and then by a technician and had to be rebuilt (which takes up to 40 mins). Along the way I also discovered when trying to contact the technicians that the nearby phonehad had its adaptor stolen so wasn't working and earlier in the day my office pc threw a wobbly when I connected a new external hard-drive, refused to have anything to do with the new drive, trashed my zip drive connection and then sulked refusing me access to the system - turns out having admin rights on my pc only extends to installing software not hardware plus 'there is a known problem with pegasus mail on an XP machine and the usbs' but curiously this only is the case on the network not my home machine or my tablet. Oh well ...
Anyway the CAM office were stars and managed to find me a room we could move to so we all went off to a meeting room in Burnaby Terrace where the pc worked but the whiteboard was propped up against a chair - I've never before used a whiteboard by writing upside down while standing behind it and hopefully I never will again.
Somehow in the middle of all this we did manage some work on patterns, first of all considering generative processes and then ways of measuring software quality. After moving rooms I then answered questions about the coursework and we looked at the visitor pattern.
For next week I've asked people to read the Composite Pattern in advance and I've booked the classroom (LG2.1) for an extra hour so we can try to catch up.
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Good afternoon!
It seems to be a good exercise but timings were not perfectly matched. Class to be conducted and machines are malfunctioning. It’s very sad.
Who’s this? This is Mr. Abid Ghulam M. Patel. This is my first term and having B.Sc. lectures @ St. Patrick's Int'l College, London.
On Tuesday, February 06, 2007, we had PAFSD lecture about Patterns. Start was intellectual and very productive in terms of exchanging the knowledge. In case if a problem occurs more than a time and the defined solution is being used within unchangeable circumstance(s) in order to solve that problem is called patterns. Besides, all the machines functioned fine and room temperature wasn’t too bad. We had breaks in time. Hence, by the end of lecture, the outcome of learning and gripping the concepts has met successfully.
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