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There will be no tutorials during week beginning 1/10/01. Lectures will be held on Thursday at 13:00 and 16:00 in A166. Course handooks on Delphi & SQL can now be collected from the Computer Science Reception Desk.
Tutorial rooms for next week are as follows: Monday 3-4 C404; Tuesday 11-12 , 2-3, 3-4 A452; Thursday 5-6 C402.
The Thursday afternoon lectures are cancelled die to the SU AGM. The tutorial held at 5pm on Thursday will also have to be cancelled. KST students should try to go to one of the other tutorials (see last news message for times & room numbers). If you cannot make any of these times, you will be given the tutorial material at the following week's tutorial.
Please bring the object modelling exercises that were given out during tutorials in week 5 (Wk beg. 22/10/01), to the week 6 tutorial (wk beg. 28/10/01).
Interviews with the Willowbank staff will be held next week during tutorial hours. In your groups, you should attend one of these sessions to finalise your requirements gathering for the Willowbank system. Your group should come prepared with a set of questions. (See Interview Instructions on the previous page.) If you still have not found a group to join, you must come anyway (and bring your questions) so that you can participate in the requirements gathering exercise. If you are not in a group by next week, we will allocate you to one. Groups should, as far as possible, attend the tutorial session that the majority of individuals were originally allocated to.
Copies of the Willowbank Court Booking Sheet will be distributed at lectures on Thursday 8/11. A postscript copy can be downloaded from the SDD home page.Unless I am informed by any student that they are unable to attend any of the other sessions, the Tuesday tutorials at 11 am will no longer run.
Next week there will only be 3 tutorial sessions and these will be held in PC lab B. The session times are: Monday between 3 and 4, Tuesday between 3 and 4 and Thursday between 5 and 6. Only 2 members of each team should attend.
All students should check the group list to ensure that their name appears in the correct group. Please email Lorna (l.peters@herts.ac.uk) with any queries.
Please note that there are a few changes to the course delivery plan. The main change to note is that the 2nd deliverable (ERM Model and demos) has been brought forward by one week. This has been done to ease the pressure of coursework for some students during the following week.
As many of you will be aware, Vito has taken a year's sabbatical. We are delighted to introduce our new member of staff who will take over Vito's duties. His name is Dr. Haihong Dai. Dr Dai can be contacted on extension 4356 or via email on h.dai@herts.ac.uk. His room number is LC264.
There has been a small change to the course delivery plan, in that during week 16 we shall do further work on ERM. During week 17 we will work on an SQL exercise.Please also note that hand in times for the ERM part of deliverable 2 and for Deliverable 5 (project report) are now 15:00 and not 16:00 as before. This is to assist the Computer Science Reception staff as they cannot always man the desk after 15:00.
The lecture on Thursday 17th on Configuration Management may have to be postponed until Thursday 31st January. Please check your notice boards to find out whether there is to be a lecture or not on this day. THE 5 O'CLOCK TUTORIAL WILL STILL DEFINITELY BE ON.
Room based tutorials will now be held at :Monday 15:00 room 2F390
Tuesday 14:00 room A452
Tuesday 15:00 room A452
Thursday 14:00 room C450.The online system for booking your demonstrations should be available by the middle of this week.
From week beginning 11/02/02 tutorials will generally be held in PC Lab C. The focus of the tutorial will be your Willowbank development so you should be prepared for working on your own projects. The purpose of these sessions will be for you to have some more development time whilst having a lecturer available to discuss design issues concerning your own development. Room based tutorials will still be held occasionally to cover specific topics that students would like reviewed or that we feel needs to be revised. We will announce at lectures and on this news page when a room based tutorial is being run.
Students should let any of the course team know of any topics they would like additional tutorials to include.
You can now book your database demonstration for next week. Once a session is fully booked it will disappear from the menu. KST groups have priority for Thursday's session. If a CS2 group books a Thursday session, and as a result prevents a KST group from booking during that time, the CS2 group will not be allowed to demonstrate.
For those groups who, having read the booklet on Delphi handed out with the course, are still having difficulty linking Delphi to an Access database, there are two websites that may offer some help. These have been added to the SDD site page. You can also go to the student help desk on the mezzanine floor in the PC labs between 12 and 2. Some student helpers are experienced in this and may be able to offer advice.Next week's tutorials will again take place in PC lab C. At least one member of each group must attend one of these sessions and be able to discuss the status of their work. Ideally, they should bring a version of their software to show hwo things are going. A register will be taken to identify those groups who are not attending.
Don't forget that this week's tutorials are held in the tutorial rooms. You will be working on developing a storyboard for an interface.
Next week the system for booking in your interface demonstrations will be set up. Same process as before with the addition that you will put the group number in.Please check the Course Delivery Plan to find out what topics are being revised when for exam preparation.
The first week of next term (Wk beg. 15 April) will be used for UML revision. Exercises have been put onto the website on the main page. You should attempt at least some of the exercises before attending the tutorial.
You can now book your session for next week's demonstration. The Thurday sessions are for those groups who have 3 or more KST members (as these are scheduled times for KST students). Please contact Dr. Dai (H.Dai@herts.ac.uk) if you have any difficulty with this.It is intended that we will use the Project Lab (mezzanine floor in the PC Lab) for the demos. However, notices will put up to direct you to the demo area on the days of the demos to confirm where you are to present & demonstrate your system.
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Last Updated: 04/03/02 by L.Peters@herts.ac.uk
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