{"id":552,"date":"2010-03-17T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/blogs\/chris_malton.php"},"modified":"2013-06-06T20:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T20:58:53","slug":"18-march-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/18-march-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Coursework Make Its Way Into the Depths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time flies<\/p>\n<p>As another coursework makes its way into the inner depths of the C-BASS handin service, I notice we&#8217;re almost at the end of a term!<\/p>\n<p>Before I go any further, I would like to point out that Helpdesk don&#8217;t mind you having your own projects (and in fact, they encourage it), just try and keep resource usage to a minimum. The bouncy dot was neither resource friendly (taking up at minimum two PCs in the lab), nor helpdesk-friendly. I promise I won&#8217;t do it again JD!<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve not blogged in a while, and it&#8217;s mainly been work and assorted other things taking up my time.<\/p>\n<p>For Advanced Programming, we&#8217;ve been working with complex numbers, Mandelbrot sets and Julia sets &#8211; something whose algorithm is beyond me, but that didn&#8217;t stop me applying a little bit of help from ChaosPro to check my software was behaving. I&#8217;ve also been working on a group coursework for Formal Methods, which involves writing code in Event-B, using the Rodin Platform, which was part-authored by our lecturer.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday I make my way home for Easter, and a much needed break, although I&#8217;m not sure how much of a break it&#8217;ll be given that I have two more courseworks due after Easter, and then it&#8217;ll be exams all over again.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, for those who wondered, I managed to pass all my Part 1 exams &#8211; enough said there. They don&#8217;t count towards the final degree score, but that doesn&#8217;t stop them being important!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time flies As another coursework makes its way into the inner depths of the C-BASS handin service, I notice we&#8217;re almost at the end of a term! Before I go any further, I would like to point out that Helpdesk don&#8217;t mind you having your own projects (and in fact, they encourage it), just try and keep resource usage to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33315,33309],"tags":[430937,431148,430938,430936],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronic-engineering","category-project-work","tag-coursework-submissions","tag-exams","tag-part-1","tag-rodin-platform","column","twocol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BSCk-8U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}