Visual Programming – Worksheet 4 and beyond.
23/01/2012
So finally this worksheet is nearing completion – not so tough after getting my head around some functions material, the notes which were provided with this assignment were not really useful they confused more than they actually explained which wasn’t really a good start to the assignment.
Finally made a start to Data Analysis and Database Design assignment today it is due in on the 6th February doesn’t seem too complex just requires creating a database for a creche it is pretty straight forward considering I have already created something like this at my time in Swansea College, the only bit I dislike is the documentation I am more of a hands on person so I would prefer to jump to the design stages rather than the document stages first.
Also last week we were told that there is going to be a “Reading Week” next week where everyone gets to up date with assignments and other stuff, this was confirmed by the Course Co-ordinator Nik Whitehead but today Bev Holland has dismissed it as a rumour and it is simply just a “demo week” where we must demonstrate the assignments which we have already submitted, to most of the course it is a bit of a kick in the teeth.
- Sad face -
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Another old assignment
14/01/2012
So as I intended, I am publishing old works which I have completed and here is the latest one with the Assignment Specification below:
The Assignment
Write a program which:
1. Reads in exactly eleven integers from a text file, the name of which is passed on the command line. (Each integer will be on a separate line.)
2. Stores the integers in an Array.
3. Construct another Array and store the integers in this second array in increasing order of size. The algorithm for doing this is described below and must be your own work.
4. Prints out to the screen the total, mean, mode and median of the integers.
Code (Java):
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Submission Deadline
12/01/2012
So the submission deadline for web authoring is near, I have nearly finished the evaluation of the website and a bit of tweaking on the write-up and I feel that it is all coming together a bit nicely, there is a lot more of course I would of loved to achieve but it is all progress what will be slowly made.
Good luck to everyone with their submission of the assignment.
On a more lighter note, unlucky to the person who used freelancer.com, lol.
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Sets – Data Structures
29/12/2011
Sets are most basic data structure.
Set notation
A set is a collection of objects that usually share some properties. This doesn’t have to be the case.
The objects of such collections are called elements, or members.
| A |, the cardinality of A, is the number of elements in the set A
Examples
{3, 7, 14} = 3
{Red, Blue, Yellow} = 3
{Joel, Felix, Oscar, Amanda, Maya} = 5
{1, 3, 5, …, 99} = 50 odd numbers >1 but < 100
{a, b, c, .., z} = 26
{2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, …} = The infinite set of prime numbers.
Danger of ambiguity in using “…”
To avoid this, we explicitly use set building principles
{x : x has property P}
Example
{n : n is a prime number} – The collections of all prime numbers
{b : b is beach on the Gower Peninsula} – The collections of all beaches on the Gower
{ A : A is a set of people who share a common grandmother}
Examples of important sets
∅ = {} Empty Set
B = {0,1} Booleans
N = {0,1,2,3,..} Natural Numbers
Z = {…, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, …} Integers
Q = Rational Numbers
R = {r : r is a real number}
∅ and {∅} ARE DIFFERENT!!
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Majority of the website is up!
So I have just uploaded some more content to the website such as the portfolio, about and a new contact page as well as changing the error pages and such.. Nothing really major but the majority of the website is up now there are a slight few things which still require some attention such as the actual blog page is currently, non functional but it isn’t a real priority at the moment, I will be focusing on the documentation from now until the assignment submission date but I shall be throwing in an hour or two to update some stuff on the website, I still want to add a rotational banner and maybe alter the contents box or navigation.. Depends how I feel with the overall assignment.
One of the last pages which I am going to be leaving is the Web Design and Programming, I shall be removing the Photography page and merging it with the Photos page, it is a bit of a waste of mb having two separate pages when there are only minor differences.
I have also been browsing through my old Computer Science Notes so I think I will be posting them up on here since they seem relevant to Computing and Information Systems too.
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