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My Studies

For other non-school programming fun projects, see the programming page.

Latest School Blog Posts:
  • A Well-done Project
    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
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    - Thu, 12 Nov 09
  • Submitted SEES Assignment
    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
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    - Sun, 25 Oct 09
  • Australians are also KIASU! O.M.G.
    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
    read more...
    - Wed, 12 Aug 09
  • Making Progress
    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
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    - Mon, 08 Jun 09
  • Assignment Updates
    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
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    - Sat, 06 Jun 09
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Curtin University, Bentley, Perth

BSc (IT) course outline.
Current weekly timetable / study schedule / school-related stuff can be found in green in my calendar on the home page.

Project Design and Management 351 (unit outline)

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Software Engineering 351 (unit outline)

  • Coming soon

Systems Programming and Design 251 (unit outline)

  • Coming soon

Systems Programming and Design 361 (unit outline)

  • Coming soon

Intro. to Programming Environments 152 (unit outline)

  • Test 1 (20%) [result: 66/100]
  • Test 2 (20%) [result: 40/60]
  • Overall result: Pass

Software Engineering 252 (unit outline)

  • Test 1 (15%) [result: 23/50]
  • Test 2 (15%) [result: 39/50]
  • Overall result: Pass

Network Systems Design 304 (unit outline)

  • Test 1 (20%) [result: 23/70]
  • Test 2 (20%) [result: 45/70]
  • Overall result: Pass

Software Engineering for Embedded Systems 352 (unit outline)

Software Engineering Tools & Metrics 352 (unit outline)

  • Assignment 1 (20%) - profile a software program, find and fix bottlenecks
    (Info | Report) [result: 55/100]
  • Assignment 2 (20%) - write a program to decompile Java source code and display metrics
    (Info | Report | Source codes) [result: 65/100]
  • Overall result: Pass

Software Security 303 (unit outline)

  • Assignment 1 (20%) - implement simple-DES (data encryption standard) in a program
    (Info | Report | Source codes) [result: 16/20]
  • Assignment 2 (20%) - [result: 15/20]
    (Info | Report)
  • Overall result: Pass

Foundations of Computer Science 351 (unit outline)

  • Mid-sem test (30%) [result: 54/100]
  • Assignment test (10%) [result: 6/20]
  • Overall result: Pass

Hardware Fundamentals 101 (unit outline)

  • 11 Quizzes (20%) - [result: 95/100]
  • 5 Labs (30%) - [result: 79.4/100]
  • Essay (10%) - [result: 93/100]
    (Info | Essay)
  • Score calculator - see how much you need to score for the exams to get the grade you want. To find out how much you scored in the exams, subtract the calculated result from the final unit result you get after the exams.
  • Overall result: Distinction

Exemptions
I'm exempted from the following modules (1-year's worth of credits):

  • Maths 103
  • Software Technology 151
  • Science Communications 101
  • Statistical Data Analysis 101
  • Software Technology 152
  • Intro. to Operating Systems 101
  • Computer Communications 252
  • Software Engineering 251
  • Database Systems 252
Resources

Templates
Here are some useful stuff that I created during my studies:

For other non-school programming fun projects, see the programming page.