Yay!
Programming Essentials = A+
Problem Analysis & design = B+
Professional Skills = A-
Systems Analysis & Design 1 = B
Just as well that i got an A+ in programming. I've been programming for a living this past year.
I'm quite surprised by my result in Professional Skills cos it involved presentations (which i think i'm crap at) and 1000 word reports on topics that i prefer to ramble on about (i feel retrained here). I suppose the one thing that i should've done best in was the website assignment. Funnily enough that it what seems to have cost me the few marks to make another A+ here. Obviously the markers dont like "simple" functional websites. And i wasnt in a mood to put marqees all over the place. I've had three years to outgrow flashing text and moving banners.
Problem Analysis and Design. bah! it's all my fault. I left the assignments/workbooks till the last minute and had to rush thru it over night. I had to leave one whole question unanswered because i did not understand it and did not have the time to ask for help. Maybe i shoulda taken the risk and lifted someone work and dumped it right there. Nah... i'm too scared/proud to do that. Lesson learnt though. This term, i'm trying to keep two steps ahead of schedule. At least with the non-group work, i can.
Well I'll be damned! System Analysis and design. If i ever felt confident about my results in any of the modules, it had to be this one. The final exam was a multiple choice quiz where you got your results right away. I got 205/240-something which is the highest i know of. That's 82%.
Now i can only blame the B on the group assignment. Truth be told, i did very little on the group assignment. I couldnt find my group members and we were supposed to get all the work done over the xmas period. I found them around the 5th of jan with only a week to submit a really big report and a propsed system for a fictitional business.
I got in there and started co-ordinating things but by then it was too late to re-do any mistakes there might have been. I stuck a few diagrams in there, tidied the work the 2 girls in the group had done and stuck a nice contents page on the front. The other guys in the gorup well... I cant say anything nice about how much they contributed so i'll stay sctum.
In any case... yay for that!!
I've learned a few things about team-work from the first term:
1. I'm not a team worker
2. If in a team, and work is shared, i'll still go ahead and try to do all of it, just in case.
3. I dont have to please everyone nor do i have to give second chances
4. Not to expect anyone to be nice to me or to give me second chances
5. I do really well at things i enjoy.
Author: Jonny
Date/Time: February 25, 2004 12:08 PM
The comments which you made about team work are prety much everything I would have said when I was at Uni - however when you start full paid employment (i.e. not student job), all this stuff realy hits you in the face!! .... although most of the time the problems you have at Uni are becuase you end up in groups with *LAZY* ****ss!!
funny thing is i'm more likely to be one of those lazy arses.
...ha ha I totaly missed the point there. I thought you were moaning at those guys! Anyway if I have one bit of advice for you it would be not to bother with it too much ;-) I spent two years stressing, then in the final year I totaly slacked off, and I did just as well. Still got a First. (although I did go to a second rate Uni). BTW. I totaly agreed with your point about the kids turning up to Uni with their parents, that used to happen at mine as well.... what the **** was that all about!?!?!
Great results. Do you mind if I hire you to teach me website development.
I'll pay big time....that's only if you consider a couple thousand cedis "big."
the result
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