Exam results
18 July 2003 14:15![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denPassed User Interface Design
Failed Java (again)
Have to resit the Online Multimedia exam in August. (Marginal fail)
I can't believe I got an AE on Online Multimedia! I thought I did okay in that, apart from not being able to work out the MB size of a video given the time and sample-rate. A 30 minute video at 250bps... My answer, "Too large for on-line multimedia. Put it on a CD", was the wrong answer.
It appears that this degree in Information Technology doesn't have a lot of stuff that applies to Real World IT. Their basic assumption in Online Multimedia is that every home has a fibre optic pipe into it, and all my effors to create small-MB web pages* and graphics leads to a lowering of my marks. In one assignment I had to write a paragraph about the hardware required. My system was going to require a keyboard, mouse, monitor and printer. I had to write a paragraph for each device.
Write a 50+ word paragraph about a standard mouse. Make it interesting. I lost marks on that.
At a recent job interview (which I can't talk about due to the nature of the company) the boss asked me "Are they teaching you anything relevent to the IT industry as it stands now?"
I had to answer "No."
In the past every employer didn't care that I've worked with computers since 1985. They were concerned that I didn't have that bloody peice of paper called a "degree." So I'm going for the degree and it is irrelevent to the industry that wants me to get it.
*www.fleetwash.com.au has a total HDD footprint of 1.7MB
Failed Java (again)
Have to resit the Online Multimedia exam in August. (Marginal fail)
I can't believe I got an AE on Online Multimedia! I thought I did okay in that, apart from not being able to work out the MB size of a video given the time and sample-rate. A 30 minute video at 250bps... My answer, "Too large for on-line multimedia. Put it on a CD", was the wrong answer.
It appears that this degree in Information Technology doesn't have a lot of stuff that applies to Real World IT. Their basic assumption in Online Multimedia is that every home has a fibre optic pipe into it, and all my effors to create small-MB web pages* and graphics leads to a lowering of my marks. In one assignment I had to write a paragraph about the hardware required. My system was going to require a keyboard, mouse, monitor and printer. I had to write a paragraph for each device.
Write a 50+ word paragraph about a standard mouse. Make it interesting. I lost marks on that.
At a recent job interview (which I can't talk about due to the nature of the company) the boss asked me "Are they teaching you anything relevent to the IT industry as it stands now?"
I had to answer "No."
In the past every employer didn't care that I've worked with computers since 1985. They were concerned that I didn't have that bloody peice of paper called a "degree." So I'm going for the degree and it is irrelevent to the industry that wants me to get it.
*www.fleetwash.com.au has a total HDD footprint of 1.7MB
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Date: 18 Jul 2003 02:05 (UTC)My degree has nothing whatsoever to do with computers and I work with them. I meet new graduates with computing degrees all the time and the first thing we do is disabuse them of the fact that they know anything useful really. You're lucky, you know what they teach you is useless - all too often they tend to think that the IT industry is really like that.