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 09:27 (UTC)My mother used to write them for an engineering firm. Each component needs to have one of these specs. Can you write ten pages on the operation of a standard on-off switch? Not even an electronic switch, but a standard metal flick it up and down switch no less. Not even how it functions with the device on the electronic level, but how to USE it.
Apparently the troubleshooting section was hilarious.
As to degrees, they are a whole load of crap, and have only gotten more so with time. Mother wrote military specs and did circuit board design at a firm that worked on the lunar landing module for NASA. Mom had a degree in MUSIC THEORY. Yeah... so relevant. But they got it to the moon, so I guess when you're on the edge of any new technology, the background really doesn't matter all that much, except to the bean counters that dot the Is and cross the Ts at the place.