Edited by David Pennington, Monday, 5 Sep 2016, 18:01
I pretty much had the EMA done last week but kept holding back, worrying if it was up to scratch. I decided that it had to be submitted by tonight, come what may so I spent yesterday tidying up.
All I managed with that was to mess up one of my notebooks. I then spent the usual unmentionable amount of time on StackOverflow trying to sort out what I had done wrong.
Aside: How can one piece of Pandas code work but when you come back three days later it refuses to run!
Although Pandas is very clever, I don't think that there are enough years left in my life to become fluent in it. Maybe, if I was a "Quant" in some investment bank and used it all day every day then maybe but in my life now? Mind you, as I spent 20 years in a bank trading room, maybe I was just too early? Still, it is all done now . I got all the tables out that I needed plus all of the visualisations. Even k-means worked for me without any issues (I did have my Smalltalk backup available though, in case).
I did the final re-write today and submitted it. I was concerned about the size of my files as others were having problems with the limits on submission file sizes. However, mine came out at a tiny 2,023,503 bytes so well within the limit. It makes me wonder what I have left out if others were struggling with 10mb sizes? I did embed all of my visualisations and tables in the word document as screen shots so maybe that is how it happened.
I have checked the content against the marking guide and "think" that I have included everything that they wanted. I checked the Assessment Calculator and I got the following:
40% for the EMA gives me a Level 4 pass.
60% for the EMA gives me a Level 3 pass.
70% for the EMA gives me a Level 2 pass.
I currently have two modules with level 2 passes - an electronics and an instrumentation module. I have three modules with level 3 passes - M251 - An Algorithmic Approach to Computer Programming, TM221 - The Digital Computer and T321 - Telecommunication Systems (all old courses c 1975 - 1980). Both of my foundation courses (worth 60 credits under the new scheme but 1 each in old money) are just classed as a pass as they didn't give grades for these then. Do they now, I wonder? Mind you, these starter courses only get 30 credits now, not that I found M101 - Mathematics Foundation Course an easy option.
OK, so it is submitted and I am done. I have TM352 starting on 1st October with the web site opening on 20th September so I will forego the pleasures of investigating the semantic web for a couple of weeks off and then a head start on the new course. As I keep banging on, I have coded in Smalltalk for the last 26 years and had to get to grips with Python/Pandas. It seems that I will have to do the same now with Java Netbeans!
Onwards and up. Assuming that I pass TM351, I only have 60 credits to go to get an Hons. so TM352 and TM470 should do it. More soon.
EMA Submitted
I pretty much had the EMA done last week but kept holding back, worrying if it was up to scratch. I decided that it had to be submitted by tonight, come what may so I spent yesterday tidying up.
All I managed with that was to mess up one of my notebooks. I then spent the usual unmentionable amount of time on StackOverflow trying to sort out what I had done wrong.
Aside: How can one piece of Pandas code work but when you come back three days later it refuses to run!
Although Pandas is very clever, I don't think that there are enough years left in my life to become fluent in it. Maybe, if I was a "Quant" in some investment bank and used it all day every day then maybe but in my life now? Mind you, as I spent 20 years in a bank trading room, maybe I was just too early? Still, it is all done now . I got all the tables out that I needed plus all of the visualisations. Even k-means worked for me without any issues (I did have my Smalltalk backup available though, in case).
I did the final re-write today and submitted it. I was concerned about the size of my files as others were having problems with the limits on submission file sizes. However, mine came out at a tiny 2,023,503 bytes so well within the limit. It makes me wonder what I have left out if others were struggling with 10mb sizes? I did embed all of my visualisations and tables in the word document as screen shots so maybe that is how it happened.
I have checked the content against the marking guide and "think" that I have included everything that they wanted. I checked the Assessment Calculator and I got the following:
40% for the EMA gives me a Level 4 pass.
60% for the EMA gives me a Level 3 pass.
70% for the EMA gives me a Level 2 pass.
I currently have two modules with level 2 passes - an electronics and an instrumentation module. I have three modules with level 3 passes - M251 - An Algorithmic Approach to Computer Programming, TM221 - The Digital Computer and T321 - Telecommunication Systems (all old courses c 1975 - 1980). Both of my foundation courses (worth 60 credits under the new scheme but 1 each in old money) are just classed as a pass as they didn't give grades for these then. Do they now, I wonder? Mind you, these starter courses only get 30 credits now, not that I found M101 - Mathematics Foundation Course an easy option.
OK, so it is submitted and I am done. I have TM352 starting on 1st October with the web site opening on 20th September so I will forego the pleasures of investigating the semantic web for a couple of weeks off and then a head start on the new course. As I keep banging on, I have coded in Smalltalk for the last 26 years and had to get to grips with Python/Pandas. It seems that I will have to do the same now with Java Netbeans!
Onwards and up. Assuming that I pass TM351, I only have 60 credits to go to get an Hons. so TM352 and TM470 should do it. More soon.