Bes said:
If I may be so bold, I'd say you could do to get out into the real world yourself. No one can spell these days, it's outrageous for those of us who can. As for the CV... what do you think Word has a spell check for anyway?
yay last min uni work part 2.... I need help
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If I may be so bold, I'd say you could do to get out into the real world yourself. No one can spell these days, it's outrageous for those of us who can. As for the CV... what do you think Word has a spell check for anyway?
With code like this being written:
...I wonder how many lectures you actually paid attention in.
Code:
if(grid1[x][y] == 0)
{
grid1[x][y] = sword;
grid1[x][y] = sword;
grid1[x][y] = sword;
}
else if(grid1[x][y]>0)
{
grid1[x][y] = sword;
grid1[x][y] = sword;
grid1[x][y] = sword;
}
if(grid1[x][y] == 0)
{
grid1[x][y] = sword;
grid1[x][y] = sword;
grid1[x][y] = sword;
}
else if(grid1[x][y]>0)
{
grid1[x][y] = sword;
grid1[x][y] = sword;
grid1[x][y] = sword;
}...I wonder how many lectures you actually paid attention in.
jcb33, if this is your first year at then you have at least realised that you will have to wise up.
My first year at Uni was all about the freedom, sure I skipped lectures, but quickly realised that I had to catch up on them cos no-one was going to make me. If I failed the year, that was my own fault.
When the lecturer tells you that the next lecture will be on "fourier transforms" you need to read up on them before the lecture. That way you can listen rather than try to understand.
Yes you do need to stay at least 1 step ahead and yes it is hard work. It really helps if you are on a course that interests you.
What course are you on ?
It is hard and it is so different to the way you are spoon fed A levels. But it is what Uni is all about - learning how to learn.
This really isn't an attack on you personally, but just some advice from someone who nearly messed up their first year and doesn't want to see someone else do it too !
Good luck with your assignment !
My first year at Uni was all about the freedom, sure I skipped lectures, but quickly realised that I had to catch up on them cos no-one was going to make me. If I failed the year, that was my own fault.
When the lecturer tells you that the next lecture will be on "fourier transforms" you need to read up on them before the lecture. That way you can listen rather than try to understand.
Yes you do need to stay at least 1 step ahead and yes it is hard work. It really helps if you are on a course that interests you.
What course are you on ?
It is hard and it is so different to the way you are spoon fed A levels. But it is what Uni is all about - learning how to learn.
This really isn't an attack on you personally, but just some advice from someone who nearly messed up their first year and doesn't want to see someone else do it too !
Good luck with your assignment !
Chrisss said:
That was actualy an experiment to try and get randomisation working, which I have managed to do using Math.random and lots of if statements!
Also a note we dont get taught to program in lectures, we get taught about programing, e.g we had 5 lectures on "The Watefall Theory" all of the lectures were almost identicle and most people on our course says the lecturer is useless, im inclined to agree
and hodders, I dont take that as an atack, infact your not even having a dig at me, unlike some of the above posts your not sayin "OH NOES your a plageriser fail uni fail uni you dont deserve to be there" like others, I apreciate your advice, and tbh im pleased with this assignment, even though I got a lot of help I got more of it working on my own than I thought possible..... again dons please remove this thread now!
I don't know how accurate the picture you're giving is, but I'm guessing your university is expecting you to either have a fair amount of practical programming experience, or to be making a lot of effort to do some practical programming on your own now you're at Uni.jcb33 said:
If you don't really work at catching up on the programming side, a problem I think you're going to find is that subsequent courses will also be about "ideas"; they won't worry much about the coding, because at this level you're just expected to be able to do it. But you won't be able to understand the ideas properly unless you have some idea of how you'd actually write the code. (Otherwise you sit there going "Yeah yeah, waterfall model, spiral model, blah, whatever..." You know the words but they don't mean anything to you).
It may not seem it now, but the assignment you've been been set is a very simple one compared with what you'll need to be able to do in the future. You need to be in the position where you can look at this kind of problem for 60 seconds and know exactly how you'd go about implementing it.
I have to say, from the snippets of code you've posted, I'd be fascinated to see the final code you come up with! If there are "lots of if statements" then I am pretty confident you've not gone about it the right way!
As far as the whole plagiarism thing goes, just make sure you really understand what your code does, because the chances are they will ask you - it's pretty obvious to me that when you started this thread you didn't have any chance of doing the assignment on your own, and my guess is they'll also know that.
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I'm a Firstie doing a Java module (yuck), and we had [given no previous experience is assumed] a fairly complex assignment in our first term.
Most people totally over-analysed it and got quite stuck on a few things, and indeed we hadn't been taught 'how to do it', but I could see it pretty quickly. I do have quite a bit of previous experience, though, and so I could understand and see what they were getting at.
I went through the lectures to pick up hints, and lo and behold I picked up a few things that others had totally missed, which if you could work the last mile on your own (which is obviously what they're testing) made the assignment a lot easier.
OP: I'm not sure you really understand what you're doing, so I reckon you should ask your buddies or even your lecturer for clarification etc, rather than come to us a few days before the deadline.
In my first term I did a few things a few days before the deadline, and 2 days after I realised I'd made stupid mistakes which I really should've seen.
I agree that unis seem to give huge & impossible tasks (I'm dreading our assignment for this term - I hate Java
), but it ain't so bad if you ask for help imo 
Most people totally over-analysed it and got quite stuck on a few things, and indeed we hadn't been taught 'how to do it', but I could see it pretty quickly. I do have quite a bit of previous experience, though, and so I could understand and see what they were getting at.
I went through the lectures to pick up hints, and lo and behold I picked up a few things that others had totally missed, which if you could work the last mile on your own (which is obviously what they're testing) made the assignment a lot easier.
OP: I'm not sure you really understand what you're doing, so I reckon you should ask your buddies or even your lecturer for clarification etc, rather than come to us a few days before the deadline.
In my first term I did a few things a few days before the deadline, and 2 days after I realised I'd made stupid mistakes which I really should've seen.
I agree that unis seem to give huge & impossible tasks (I'm dreading our assignment for this term - I hate Java
), but it ain't so bad if you ask for help imo 
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Use Eclipse. BlueJ is ok for learning but something like Eclipse will speed up your programming a lot.gord said:
gord said:
and isn't anything to do with BlueJ.. it's just an executable in the jdk bin. (although BlueJ does the settings for you)
eclipse is definitely the ide to go for imo. It can be very overwhelming and seem bulky when you first start using it but it doesn't take long to get to grips with and makes everything so much quicker. Plus you can download plugins which can be used for subversion, rails development, whatever...
(like eclipse it also has integrated JUnit support)
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Hi there,
Yes Eclipse is highly recommended. Great piece of software. At first it may seen cluttered or too big, but after abit of playing around, its definitely worth considering.
Yes Eclipse is highly recommended. Great piece of software. At first it may seen cluttered or too big, but after abit of playing around, its definitely worth considering.