I think I may have skipped at week of blogging, “Oh no, I knew I was missing something in my life!” I hear you say. Panic no more, I’m back and feeling relaxed, relaxed because I have submitted my first TMA. It’s now in the lap of the gods, well the Reverend Whiffen’s at least.
Last week I completed part 4 ‘Geography is history’. Learning about bandwidths and using calculations at first seemed daunting, after speaking to the tutor and looking at a few pages online, I feel more comfortable with them. Over the summer I studied protocol stacks and layered architecture online, but it was nice to read about it as a refresher.
I have focused this week’s study time on getting to know my new best friend Sense. One thing I love in life is a good list. Anytime I have something to do or something to learn I make a list. Who doesn’t like lists, so when I got to the ‘Sense Programming Guide’ session 6 – 8, I almost popped. I have already had experience on scratch with my 8-year-old, so all the user input stuff came natural. I found the error finding exercise interesting too.
On Saturday, I managed to find a quiet corner at work and logged onto the cluster group tutorial. It was very informative and fun. Looking forward to the next one.
My learning outcomes for this week are;
- Using bandwidth calculations
- Small number prefixes
- Scientific notation
- How packets are transferred
- Sense programming
This week I will make time to have more fun with sense programming and go over everything I have learnt so far, make sure at least some of it sunk in!