IQER, Assessment, Judith

So after not writing on this blog for 8 months, what has caused me to pick up my keyboard and write this? Two words: 3rd Year. After taking part in Bedford College's IQER session, which looked at how BC marks and assesses student work, I had coffee with the legendary Judith. I was told a few secrets about the course, and one of these was that keeping this blog up to date, now, will significantly help me when I start on my 3rd year project: I think there is a requirement for group work (again!) and for maintaining a journal of my progress.

Some random observations re. the 2nd year of the course, so far: Programming is easy. As an introduction, it should really have been in the 1st year. It is certainly the easiest module so far (except, perhaps, for the intro to computer hardware during the Summer), and that's even taking into account that I'm a developer... The main issue is that we've covered objects, classes and OOP last year, so a gentle intro to objects, classes and (hopefully, but doubtful at this level) inheritance, polymorphism, etc. feels similar to learing binary after we've been subnetting for years!

Steve's Sem3 Cisco stuff, OTOH, is much harder. It's only switching! How hard can it be? This, of course, is where my "experience" as a N/W manager is making me complacent. I'm slipping too: So far, I've had only 1 100%, the rest, at least, were over 85%... Behind too: Haven't started this assignment, and still have the chapter 5, 6 and now 7 exams to do.

So what am I doing? Wasting time installing dropbox, VS2010 (with .net 4.0, yay!) and writing this... I'll start counting my 10 green bottles soon...