1.5 assignments down another 1.5 to go

Well what can I say it's been a LONG month. I've barely had any time to myself so i haven't had the chance to update in a while. However I'm in uni now waiting for my lecture this morning to start and that'll be one of the piece of coursework in the title to this blog over. Got to do a demonstration of this system that we've coded (it's a group project but not unreliable members). However the only problem is the system doesn't actually work =S.

Well what can i say we tried to get an extension for the piece of coursework coz we had another major piece as well to do for the same day we gave valid reasons like i was struggling to get in coz of my ankle, my other mate had to look after his 2 yr old daughter, one of them had to work to pay bills and the final one was away on holiday. Well anyway the lecturer just turned around and said "no extension" so we said right well u may not get a finished system and well lets just say we kept true to our word the system isn't finished and it doesn't work. However we were told we can still pass the piece of coursework if we explain what we were GOING to do.

Other group project is due in tuesday (the system has to be complete) and quite frankly since i coded 75% of the code that makes the system work i've said i am NOT doing any more coding for the system since all that needs to be done now is to make an interface and connect it to the code that i've already written. Group project and again i'm still really the only one working on it (at least one of the members has done all the paper based work so i didn't have to worry about that). I've had to give the interface to one of the slackers who did the interface for the prototype. Well anyway he's looked at it and basically said "i dont know what to do" even though he did it for the actual prototype. He also said he spent 5 hours on it each night and is getting no where ... again though his best mate grassed him up and told me that he's used that excuse before and what he's actually done for them is nothing and what he did was play World of Warcraft for them 5 hours a night. We're thinking about docking his mark by 25% however we need to discuss this as a group and since he's not coming in it's impossible to do this. Soooo we are going to try and get the entire group onto msn tonight to discuss it (last resort really). We're going to dock the guys mark because of the fact that he hasn't done this task it means that we've had to do a really bad technical documentation and user guide for our system so we've lost marks there and also we will barely have any time to compile the system either. However there is still a high chance that we will pass the module if this isn't done. Our tutor said it is extremely hard to fail this module.

Another thing that happened we were having a group meeting with our tutor to discuss the mark alocations between the group. 2 members didn't show up so EVERYONE in the groups individual marks for this section of the course got docked so that we all got 0% in it. Now to be honest i think this is a bit unfair since the individuals have to suffer for people not turning up. However since they had given us the marks already that they were going to give people it was a good thing since we gained some of the marks back. Then he decided to give us ALL the marks back because we had a good detailed disscussion about the marks given and that we'd been fair about it and judged with 1s and 2s (lowest marks) and then the leader had gotten given the option of rejecting some marks that he had gotten that were 1s and he accepted them so he gained the rest of the marks that we'd lost back ... was surprized our tutor wasnt the git he usually is (is putting that VERY politely).

The final assignment that needs to be done is one where we've been given a picture of some fruit and we have to make a program to count the amount of each type of fruit/veg there is in the picture ... haven't even started that yet gonna start it next week.

Anywy i've just looked at the time so i'd best finish up here since my lecturer will arrive in a couple of mins time (i'm seriously just in uni for 15 mins)
See ya next time
OWA

It's alive, It's Alive, IT'S ALIVE!!!!! ... nopeit died again

Damn this stupid laptop it's uselss it keeps dying on me :'(. Wouldn't care except i'm trying to do some work so i'm having to save like every 5 seconds. It's coz the cable at the back of the laptop keeps getting knocked and the battery in this thing lasts less than a minute (from full charge) without being connected to the mains. Seriously this is like the 10th time i've had to boot the damn thing up.

Heh seems everytime i'm blogging i'm complaining about one thing or another. Must be getting irritable in my old age ... either that or it's the stress. Heh sounds aweful doesn't it i'm on holiday and i'm stressed out of hell. Seriously i'm actually going into UNI tommorow to do some work ... ugh stupid coursework. Fed up of it and just want this year to be over now. To be honest with my personal tutor i want my final year to be over now ... that's how run down i am.

Anyway enough of my complaining. What's been going on in the life of me recently. Nothing much to be honest. I've been doing coursework. Got one piece finished and sent it through that plagerism site it came back with 5% copied off other people and that was all from students in places like scotland so i dont think i can get done for either plagerism or collusion :D. Anyway once that was handed in i felt the relief wash over me and i instantly fell asleep (Was only awake because of adrenaline). I pretty much have been catching up on missed sleep over the past few days.

Had family around over the weekend. IT was good to see my cousin and her baby since it's not often that i see them (about 1-2 times a year). Anyway we went of to Kielder for the day and went around the resovoir. Well anyway after they left i've pretty much been playing a few games that i've not been able to play because of all the damn coursework, watching DVDs and sleeping ... ah yes i remember why i like sleep so much now. Not looking forward to going back to uni since i still have something like 3 pieces of coursework due. Robotics where i've got to get a program that we all hate to count how many piece of fruit there are in a picture and say how many pieces of different types of fruit there is, got to write a program with a group of people in a programming language called perl and the program has got to work as a simple search engine by looking up the results given by different search engines (e.g. google) and then compare the results and filter out any repeats. The final piece which i'm sure i'm going to have to resit because of some of the other members of the group is the bloody group project on horses. Quite frankly at this point i couldn't care about it anymore i just want to pass it (even if it's a slim pass) just so i dont have to resit it next year. Thing is some of the other members of my group are actually quitting uni next year because they are fed up of our tutor (cvant blame them i am as well ... fed up not quitting) and they quite frankly dont give a doggy doodoo whether or not they pass at all in any of their modules and have just stopped going to lectres altogether. I am just fed up of it i dont see why i should have to resit because some people can't be bothered to do their share of the work. Our tutor has told us if we dont get the system to do ALL of the reasoning (9 sections each with about 500 possible outputs and we've got to code each output which takes roughly 15 mins each) and get it into an executable we instantly fail the module even the people who do their share of the work. So it's a bit unfair that i seem to be left pulling my share of the work and some of the others aren't. Decided i'm gonig to get my other mates who are working with me on it but dont know how to do the programing in tommorow and tell them how to do it and get it done over the hols in our own time. If we're going to fail i want at least a chance of passing (no matter how slim it is). Seriously just fed up of uni at the moment i'm glad i'm on holiday but it doesn't seem like i'm going to get very much of it to myself.

Anyway i've rambled on for too long and i'm sure you're all sick of hearing me moan so i'll try and be more positive next time.
OWA