Samuel Liew’s Blog

The results for my SEES assignment was released today and I got a 86%! PTL!

View the results breakdown, marking guide of how I did for each component here.

Read about my previous post on the assignment here.

Just managed to submit the SEES (Software Engineering for Embedded Systems) assignment on time. Took me the past few days of camping in uni to complete it. Have uploaded the project files to the assignment page on my website.

The assignment was to program a game called Code Cracker for the Android OS.

Here are some screenshots of the program:

Program icon on the android phone desktop:

Initial screen:

Menu options:

Selecting a cell to input a letter:

Game over:

Download source code, program files, user manual on the assignment page.

Today I had planned to do three things after my SEES lecture. Visit job fair in uni, participate in a free lucky dip, and get free hotdogs at the guild AGM. By the way, all three were advertised in the uni email, and the events happened to coincide at the same time at 12pm.

My lecture finished 15 minutes early at 1145, and I decided to visit the free lucky dip first as it was nearer. Guess what? About 100 people were already there, EARLY, in one BIG crowd with no form of order at all. Not even a simple queue!! When the booth opened (actually just a table), everybody just started surging forward at the same time to one poor person manning the counter. When the organiser gave instructions to form a queue, it was not heeded and everyone still wanted in. EVEN SINGAPOREANS KNOW HOW TO QUEUE WITHOUT BEING ASKED TO!!!! (cannot take that for granted >.<) I omg-ed and lol-ed, watched the crowd grow to about 200+, and then got sick of the way the event was handled and decided not to participate.

I went on to get free hotdogs for lunch, then walked through the job fair. Nothing interesting there, mostly health and engineering companies. Also met with half my group for SE discussion (the other half pon/awol the meeting).

Today I went to collect my security assignment and I did well! Thank God for his grace that has brought me through. Now I’m revising for my exams…

I haven’t been blogging because I have been busy lately with end-of-semester assignments and studying for upcoming exams. Anyway, I have posted my progress on my website.

I have been spending a lot of time doing my SETM assignment, and I’m making good progress because I found a similar program that I could use to help check my code logic. Now I got one more part left – to decode the hex code to instructions, so that I can program the metrics part. I’m trying to finish it by today, so I have time for the other three assignments.

I got 80% for my security assignment!

This morning the lecturer was unhappy at everyone in the lab because nobody did his favourite question from the previous lab, even though we had one month to do it. Only me and another guy did it. The lecturer said he will put that lab question in the final exam.

Yesterday I submitted my SS assignment. Also got back the results of the FCS test during the lecture =/ didn’t do too well or too badly >.< above average but was lower than my expectations. Actually everyone’s expectations – the average score was 53/100 in the class, fourteen out of forty people failed. Guess the lecturer was a bit too strict on the marking, and the questions were almost all open-ended – completely NO multiple-choice questions.

I stayed up all night trying to understand and do today’s HF lab, and only went to sleep at 4:30am. Woke up ten minutes before the lecture and was almost late. Luckily I’m staying near uni… Anyway, the lab was really hard, only managed to get to halfway in the two hours. My lab mate and I decided to attend the make-up lab lesson at the end of the semester to complete the other half.

Today I got back my SETM assignment… didn’t do that well, but I passed!

In this assignment, I have to program a software that uses the Simple-DES (Data Encryption Standard) algorithm to encrypt and decrypt plain text file.

I just completed it. Have spent the past few days cramming to complete it, as I encountered several problems that were very difficult to fix.

More about the assignment, my report and program sources are available on the newly-created school page.