Edited by David Pennington, Sunday, 2 Jul 2017, 16:14
I am anxiously waiting for my results on TM352. The EMA was very hard work and I am unsure as to how that panned out. The situation is quite simple. Given the current state of my arthritis and everything else wrong with my body, if I fail this I will just give up on TM470 and accept my B.Sc. I am really enjoying this project course but I can't face taking on another course that I will need to complete Honours. I don't really expect to fail - I am more likely to get a 3 pass. If that (or even a 4) happens then I will happily continue until September.
The hard work that TM352 took out of my time schedules required some very extra hours on TM470. This left my wife complaining about the commitment to the OU and worrying about how I will get through. Well, the TMA is done. It wasn't the report that was the problem. I am finding continuous concentration difficult nowadays so getting the software to do everything required was a bit of a slog. Normally, I throw out Smalltalk code without a worry or without much effort but this time it took all my concentration to get through. You can see what I was doing if you check out my project blog. I decided that I couldn't get on using online note taking using Scribd. I tried my trusty Moleskine notebook but that was difficult to report on. In the end I opted for using the blog - one post for each week.
There has been an awful lot of complaints about both TM352 and TM470. I have to say that, when I filled in the end of module questionnaire, I was very critical of the course and the actions of the course team (excluding the moderators and tutors who were all first class). However, when it comes to TM470, I cannot see what everyone is complaining about. It is exactly what I expected. I am enjoying writing the code (well,see above) and the TMAs almost write themselves.
Anyway,my software works. The TMA is complete and submitted. What comes next?
Well, I have to write an Android front end to the software using all of the REST interface that I have built. I am telling my wife that this is going to be easy but, after the EMA, I think it is going to be quite hard work. Once the Android bit is done, I have 10,000 words to write to wrap it all up. I can use my current 5,000 as a base so there isn't much to do there.
This is Mr. Misery signing off and getting back to work - for the end stretch!
My last TMA. Nearly there
I am anxiously waiting for my results on TM352. The EMA was very hard work and I am unsure as to how that panned out. The situation is quite simple. Given the current state of my arthritis and everything else wrong with my body, if I fail this I will just give up on TM470 and accept my B.Sc. I am really enjoying this project course but I can't face taking on another course that I will need to complete Honours. I don't really expect to fail - I am more likely to get a 3 pass. If that (or even a 4) happens then I will happily continue until September.
The hard work that TM352 took out of my time schedules required some very extra hours on TM470. This left my wife complaining about the commitment to the OU and worrying about how I will get through. Well, the TMA is done. It wasn't the report that was the problem. I am finding continuous concentration difficult nowadays so getting the software to do everything required was a bit of a slog. Normally, I throw out Smalltalk code without a worry or without much effort but this time it took all my concentration to get through. You can see what I was doing if you check out my project blog. I decided that I couldn't get on using online note taking using Scribd. I tried my trusty Moleskine notebook but that was difficult to report on. In the end I opted for using the blog - one post for each week.
There has been an awful lot of complaints about both TM352 and TM470. I have to say that, when I filled in the end of module questionnaire, I was very critical of the course and the actions of the course team (excluding the moderators and tutors who were all first class). However, when it comes to TM470, I cannot see what everyone is complaining about. It is exactly what I expected. I am enjoying writing the code (well,see above) and the TMAs almost write themselves.
Anyway,my software works. The TMA is complete and submitted. What comes next?
Well, I have to write an Android front end to the software using all of the REST interface that I have built. I am telling my wife that this is going to be easy but, after the EMA, I think it is going to be quite hard work. Once the Android bit is done, I have 10,000 words to write to wrap it all up. I can use my current 5,000 as a base so there isn't much to do there.
This is Mr. Misery signing off and getting back to work - for the end stretch!