The course so far

Well its now mid week of the first week back to college since the Easter holidays, to be honest at this stage there isn’t much to report about. Monday morning I started using Microsoft Visio, was interesting to be honest. Designing various things like office apartments and manager offices, wasn’t too hard, it’s good that I am learning new things each week. As for that big assessment, I have nearly finished the story board. Indicating where things will be in the presentation, so all is well at this stage.

New skills

End of the college week and all has gone as planned, a college week I have enjoyed with the news of passing my numeracy assessment. All classes are going fine as planned, getting that little more experienced using flash, did some interesting things with it today. Created a water pump, so when you pressed play it would animate the pump of water. Other than the small test given I practiced using various methods, for example using transform options on the tool, at the end of the day it is more experience for me and something I will take for granted in the future as a wed developer. So what’s next, one will be more dedicated hard work towards achieving my goal of passing the course, then there’s the HNC, and the final is getting a good rewarding job in the computing industry.

Nothing to do yet

At the point of not knowing what to do, I’m meaning I have completed all the college work possible so far. So I haven’t got a class till 11am. That will be the Install and maintain computer software, so it runs through my mind of what we will be doing today. Will it be paperwork or maybe practical so I can take some pictures to post.

I am looking forward to the Digital media (elements for applications) class, this is so I can hopefully create my storyboard for the assessment. It will have to include the following things.

Text
Image
Animation
Movie
Sound
Interaction

So I would imagine this is going to be interesting to see what I come up with, would like to make it funny, but not so simple so I can text the knowledge of what people know about health and safety when involving a computer.

Hometown and travel to college

The day has started fine so far, the class has created a Wiki for everyone too see. The general topics are our travel to college and hometown, considering my hometown is in the middle of nowhere. Wasn’t much to say, but my memory served me well to help me create a good paragraph?

Computer hardware and Spreadsheets return

In the computer hardware class today I removed and installed a floppy drive, although floppy drives is something not important, you need to know about floppy drives. Next was to remove and install the CD Rom drive, next was to check they both worked correctly. Then went down to the college IT centre and wrote up some of the tasks I have completed since starting college, things like the operating system, ram, printers. After computer hardware was the spreadsheets assessment, different to what I first thought it would be. Had to create a spreadsheet design in Microsoft word, then transfer the information wrote in word to excel. Then fill in the necessary data we needed to create a spreadsheet with the correct formulas, all went well though.

Career in computing

At college studying computing and Information technology, when I finish this course I want to continue to the HNC and study either Web development or Software development. Possibly games development, not very sure at this moment as it’s too early to say. In 5 years time I see myself in the computer Industry making use of the skills I have developed from the courses, not to forget the skills I am going to learn in future studies.

To be Continued.

Computing at it’s best

Today couldn’t have gone better, really got the hang of creating forms in Microsoft office. Have always wondered how you create a form with a drop down menu, even a tick box. Created the form with ease, was a boost. Software development is getting more interesting by the day, did a little more work with Delphi Pascal. Although I only created a couple of sentences in each task, total of 4 tasks. It has given me a better understanding of how you get problems and how you go about solving and troubleshooting them.
Making progress on databases, becoming more familiar with queries, reports and was introduced to database relationships today.