Oh and I forgot to mention that our team is also writing a blog for the development of the app so do check it out from time to time to see how we are doing!
http://icodon.wordpress.com
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
UCL CS Unveiled Event
My university department is having a Computer Science fair in a couple of weeks and my team is going to be presenting our current project!
Here's the poster that I drew up for the event
It contains a short summary of the app, the problem provided by our client and the description of features we provide. The images show a basic flowchart of the app and the home, game and ranking screens.
Pretty cool huh?
I guess it looks a little crammed but the poster is going to be on an A3 poster paper so should look better… haha
I used Microsoft Visio to do this and other UML charts, such as Object and Inheritance Modelling, for the report we handed in this past weekend 
Here's the poster that I drew up for the event
It contains a short summary of the app, the problem provided by our client and the description of features we provide. The images show a basic flowchart of the app and the home, game and ranking screens.
I guess it looks a little crammed but the poster is going to be on an A3 poster paper so should look better… haha
Here's the full technical State Chart Diagram for the app.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Meet a Mentor - GDC
Tonight, I went to a Meet a Mentor event at Queen Mary university.
It's organized by the Graduate Developer Community and it was really interesting because you get to meet professionals who all work as developers or have that background.
They actually had a similar event last week at UCL but I didn't know what it was and didn't go. My friend who did go was really happy about the event and she recommended that I go tonight.
Although QM turned out to be quite far from where I live, I'm really glad I went :)
Since I'm trying to find a job in London after I graduate next year in September, they gave me a lot of good tips and helpful stories about their experience.
I think the most important thing I learnt tonight from them was how technology is a tool not an industry. So whatever I am interested in, there's a way to use the skills that I have learnt to provide a solution or even revolutionize the industry!
I'm really excited now! Hehe
But I hate the whole application process! I shall check out some of the problem solving sites that was recommended tonight and build on that to prepare for interviews!
I'm also glad I went because before, I wasn't very confident about my skills. Because I'm only doing a one year conversion course, compared to students who are doing 3 year bachelor degree, I don't have as much programming skills. But today the mentors reassured me that the recruiters and companies don't care about how much programming you know but more how you think and find solutions to problems.
All in all great event and will go to other events by the GDC in the future!
Friday, October 11, 2013
Masters at UCL
Since I haven't written here since I graduated, let me just quickly explain what I've been up to lately :)
So I started my masters degree at UCL in computer science, which is a conversion course for people who have different backgrounds and want to go into the IT.
We've had a crash course in java. Now we've already started developing for external clients!
As our coursework, we were put into groups of three to develop an app for a client and this weekend was our first deadline to submit a draft of the app with some pseudo code as to how we will structure the program and a report containing functional and non-functional requirements, UML, prototype of the GUI and project management documents.
I'm really excited about this app that we were assigned because it is basically an interactive learning tool and we are trying to gamify the learning process to get students to want to play/learn ;)
Also, the main requirement is that the app is in HTML5. Since we are not taught that in our course as a main topic, my group and I have basically taught ourselves HTML, CSS and JavaScript in 2 weeks!
Now the next deadline is in mid December to hand in a working copy of the app so we have to learn more about all the JavaScript and web tools like jQuery, Ajax and SQLite!
Busy busy busy!
But I'm so grateful that there are some really nice free online platforms to learn this stuff. My favourite is Codeacademy but jQuery has some of their own tutorials and they're pretty good. I'm not a fan of Udacity, I feel that it's not very well explained and it's annoying how you have to keep going back to the video for the instructions.
If anyone knows anything else, do let me know!!
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Graduation 2013
With much thanks to all my family and friends, I have officially graduated Summa Cum Laude from International University of Monaco yesterday with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration!
Seems like yesterday, I graduated high school but here I am, three years later with a bachelor degree!
Next up, Master's in London from September!!
But for now, I am going to enjoy my holiday in Italy xD
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Third year of BSBA and Immanuel Kant
We here in Monaco have been reminded this week that the glorious warm summer is now definitely over, by the sudden outbursts of rain. Dark clouds hang low from the sky, keeping the humidity high and the atmosphere gloomy. Worse still is that university has started and we have lots of work to do this term.
Although credit-wise, I am only taking 12 credits, four courses, one workshop and I am auditing an elective course. But this term, we must write our internship report and start working on our thesis.
Over the summer, I have decided that I want to go into computer orientated careers such as web design/programming so I am auditing the Computer Graphics course and decided to focus my thesis around the e-commerce consumer behavior field.
Today I wanted to share with you about a philosopher in the 18th Century called Immanuel Kant. One of my courses this term is about International Relations and Geopolitics and its really interesting for me because I love history and I've always wanted to learn philosophy. So far we covered Realism and Liberalism and I'm doing a presentation on one of the most influential liberalist thinker, Kant.
I volunteered to present Immanuel Kant thinking it'll be easy because he's the main liberal thinker so there'll be plenty to talk about, but when I did some research I realised that there is SO much to talk about his works that it is really difficult to give a short presentation on such an in depth character. So here is my quick overview on his life and ideology.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was born and lived his whole life close to the capital of East Prussia, Konigsberg. He was born during the Age of Enlightenment, in which during the 18th century, intellectuals tried to reform society through reason, advance knowledge through science and opposed the abuse of power by the state and the church.
Kant's contributions were mainly made in four key areas of study: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Aesthetics.
Although credit-wise, I am only taking 12 credits, four courses, one workshop and I am auditing an elective course. But this term, we must write our internship report and start working on our thesis.
Over the summer, I have decided that I want to go into computer orientated careers such as web design/programming so I am auditing the Computer Graphics course and decided to focus my thesis around the e-commerce consumer behavior field.
Today I wanted to share with you about a philosopher in the 18th Century called Immanuel Kant. One of my courses this term is about International Relations and Geopolitics and its really interesting for me because I love history and I've always wanted to learn philosophy. So far we covered Realism and Liberalism and I'm doing a presentation on one of the most influential liberalist thinker, Kant.
I volunteered to present Immanuel Kant thinking it'll be easy because he's the main liberal thinker so there'll be plenty to talk about, but when I did some research I realised that there is SO much to talk about his works that it is really difficult to give a short presentation on such an in depth character. So here is my quick overview on his life and ideology.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was born and lived his whole life close to the capital of East Prussia, Konigsberg. He was born during the Age of Enlightenment, in which during the 18th century, intellectuals tried to reform society through reason, advance knowledge through science and opposed the abuse of power by the state and the church.
Kant's contributions were mainly made in four key areas of study: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Aesthetics.
- Metaphysics is "the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space" (Google Dictionary)
- In which Kant focused on answering the question 'What can we know?'
- Epistemology means "The theory of knowledge, esp. with regard to its methods, validity, and scope."
- He said that knowledge has constraints because of how our minds are limited to the judgements we make through observations and experiences.
- Regarding to ethics, his most famous quote about an ideology called Categorical Imperative explains his views: “Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
- He also made a detailed study of judgement and thus arrived at a conclusion that aesthetics, beauty is only our perception. that the object is not beautiful but we reason it to be beautiful
Interesting no?
Monday, July 9, 2012
Monte Carlo International Fireworks Festival
Tonight is the Monte Carlo International Fireworks Festival! This is an annual competition and this year, the French, Czech Republic, Austrian and English teams are competing over four days during the summer.
Check out the view from outside our apartment!
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