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Saturday, March 08, 2008

2nd week of Uni

On Monday, Ian found a Podcast which is a sound file with lecture slides for lecture one. So i watched the first lecture, the way the lecture was presented was good. In addition to that, just listening to the first lecture for the second time really gives me a better understanding on the unit itself.

The following day, I had tutorial..In tutorial we had to first discuss on the case studies and what main questions to ask which can provide us with necessary information and information we need and do not have yet. We had to decide on a proper chart too for the case study. After discussion, we started of interviewing and getting interviewed. We also had someone to take down important details in both interviews.

On Wednesday, we had lecture..It was about Systems Development Life Cycle. It shows how IT units are related to one another such as project planning, analysis, design, implementation and support phases, step by step. There were 70 slides for this lecture alone. There was too much so the lecturer mainly covered the important ones only. I just downloaded Podcast for the second week..Off to watch I go =)

Dexy`

Saturday, March 01, 2008

A new year and a new start

Cleared my old blog to blog about my new unit, FIT2001 Systems Analysis and Design..Lectures for this unit are on Wednesday 1pm till 3pm. In this unit, there are two assignments which the first is divided into two parts and the second is a whole of its own. Surprisingly, we have a third bonus assignment which involves blogging about the unit for us to reflect on classes and sorts.

For our first lecture, we got to meet our lecturer for the unit, Mr.Yeap. We were given guidance on where to access lecture notes, requirements and objectives of the unit and more. Mr.Yeap recommended us a text book which was published in 2006 and is the 4^th edition. Since it was recommended, I got the book the following day from the Monash bookshop when it just arrived. The book cost RM54.

Besides that, Mr.Yeap explained to us about how the unit is assessed, assignments deadline, and eventually told us bout blogging as one of our assignment bonus. The second half of the lecture was used to start the lesson. We were told about systems and its relevance to business mainly its importance. The first class was short due to the standard procedures of the lecturer giving students a brief view of the unit and important task needed to be done.

Before class ended, we had to select another different time for tutorial classes as Mr.Yeap wanted to open another tutorial class for the students. Thus, the class would be divided to two different timings. In addition, we were given two case studies for the upcoming tutorial class and divided to two groups to interview each other on the cast studies.

Overall, the unit was quite theoretical. However, in the weeks to come especially for the upcoming tutorial, things should get more interesting as we get to listen to different opinions and views from students on the two case studies.

Dexy`