Free!
Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:32 pm
Just have to get this off my chest:
I'VE FINISHED GRADING STUDENT PAPERS!!!!
2 weeks late though. University wants to tear my head off.
I'm free of that ordeal 'til next September. My problem is we (other teacher and me) give too difficult and complex assignments. This time the students had to design and code a e-voting system with built-in security and integrity checks, so that it would be impossible to tamper with the machines and, say, elect Bush.
It was made more interesting by the November municipal elections here in Quebec where they tried voting machines and had horrible problems (no tampering though).
Each of the 10 student teams submitted a 150-page report and java code for the system. Took us a month to go through it all. Winning team is getting a $2000 grant.
Here's my setup at the most frantic time:
I'VE FINISHED GRADING STUDENT PAPERS!!!!
2 weeks late though. University wants to tear my head off.
I'm free of that ordeal 'til next September. My problem is we (other teacher and me) give too difficult and complex assignments. This time the students had to design and code a e-voting system with built-in security and integrity checks, so that it would be impossible to tamper with the machines and, say, elect Bush.
It was made more interesting by the November municipal elections here in Quebec where they tried voting machines and had horrible problems (no tampering though).
Each of the 10 student teams submitted a 150-page report and java code for the system. Took us a month to go through it all. Winning team is getting a $2000 grant.
Here's my setup at the most frantic time:
Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:36 pm
I dont see BF42 on any of those screens!!!
Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:46 pm
I do see the Dark lords mask in the cabinet there. 
never to far away huh.
added. or maybe it is a reflection
never to far away huh.
added. or maybe it is a reflection
Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:53 pm
150 page report...please tell me why you need 150 pages to explain what you are doing. I think you could explain how to build a nuclear bomb to a homeless immigrant living in Compton with 150 pages.
Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:11 pm
power surge
Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:16 pm
Originally posted by Hat Rack
I dont see BF42 on any of those screens!!!
I'm sure it isn't but that monitor second from the left sure looks like it has Wake Island on it to me..
Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:36 pm
Originally posted by BulletTooth-TPF
I do see the Dark lords mask in the cabinet there.
Damn. My reflection in the glass. Noob mistake.
Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:10 pm
150 PAGES?!?!?!?!?!?!
Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:41 pm
Originally posted by Hat Rack
I dont see BF42 on any of those screens!!!
nor porn...It has to be a fake:D
Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:44 pm
Originally posted by SavageParrot
nor porn...It has to be a fake:D
, exactly
Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:26 pm
Actually some teams had 200 pages. That's just for the second part of the assignment. First deliverable was around 100 pages. These were 5-men teams. If you think this is a lot, you're in for a bad surprise whern you grow up .
To answer Conscious's question: when you develop software, you have to provide very detailed technical documents along with the code. Requirements analysis, functional analysis, system architecture, design, data flow, etc. The code itself is in fact the least important part of the contract. Coders are a dime a dozen, whereas a good systems architect or analyst is hard to find. If this had been a real e-voting systems, the documentation would amount to around 8000 pages.
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To answer Conscious's question: when you develop software, you have to provide very detailed technical documents along with the code. Requirements analysis, functional analysis, system architecture, design, data flow, etc. The code itself is in fact the least important part of the contract. Coders are a dime a dozen, whereas a good systems architect or analyst is hard to find. If this had been a real e-voting systems, the documentation would amount to around 8000 pages.
Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:27 pm
No way is there a need to type or read 8000 pages.
Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:28 pm
Man, if i ever have to do a nother report, it will be to soon. High school was bad enough, dont want to go through college.
Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:31 pm
Originally posted by Conscious*
No way is there a need to type or read 8000 pages.
You're funny
You probably think bridges are thrown together by construction workers using whatever parts they happen to find
Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:45 pm
Originally posted by Chacal
You're funny
You probably think bridges are thrown together by construction workers using whatever parts they happen to find
In the US, they often are!
