Signing off...

I'm moving course related material to the www.finnegas.net VLE.
Hopefully this will mean you only have to go to ONE website in future...

See you there!
PS - Keep your own blogs going for now!

Thank Crunchie it's Friday!

Today you will continue working on the Analysis section of your project writeup (started yesterday).
In particular you should use try to identify Data Sources etc and create relevant Data flow Diagrams or flow charts of manual processes.
Continue working on this for HW over the weekend.
Bring in your books on Mon.
Have a good weekend!

Assembly Langauge Quiz

(A) Today you will log in to www.finnegas.net
(You all BETTER remember your usernames and passwords!)

You should click on the link for "Assembly Language Quiz (1)".
This consists of 3 past paper questions on Assembly Language & the Fetch Execute cycle.

You should type your answers into the available edit boxes on the webpage.

You will not receive any immediate feedback / results as I have to mark these answers manually.

(B) - Get the "Practical Project" photocopy in your folders in the filing cabinet (bottom right drawer).
Create a Word document with the following headings:

• Background to/identification of problem
• Identification of the prospective user(s)
• Identification of user needs and acceptable limitations
• Use of appropriate analysis techniques
• Data source(s) and destination(s)
• DFDs (Existing and Proposed Systems)
• Analysis Data Dictionary
• E-R model; Objective Analysis diagrams (if appropriate)
• Objectives of the project
• Realistic appraisal of the feasibility of potential solutions
• Justification of chosen solution

Read through the notes and try to complete the first 3 headings in relation to your proposed Computing project.
At this point you do not refer to actual programming techologies you will use.
You will 'decide' on this at a later stage.

Today you will...

Complete summary of Ch 2 Assembly Language, started yesterday.
HW: Answer q's 1 - 6 on your blog

LNI bites the dust (for a while at least!)

Today gentlemen you will go to:
http://www.finnegas.net
You will log in (details will be given in class) and explore this Virtual Learning Environment.

Please reply to the forum posts in "Week 3" (ignore the week numbers etc for now)
You should complete the 'First Impressions' question AFTER you have become familiar with the set up.

Learning PHP

Over the past few days we have been learning about PHP.
We have installed XAMPP onto our USB memory sticks and been working through w3schools PHP tutorials.
We saw how PHP could be used to create dynamic webpages that could be accessed by a wifi enabled device (simulated on a Mobile Phone Browser).

You have a LNI test on PHP tomorrow!

PS your homework for over the weekend was to blog about all this PHP stuff we have learned...

Structure and Role of the Processor

Today we read through the start of Ch 34 "Structure and Role of the Processor".
We then looked at notes on the datapool on the Fetch-Execure Cycle and you were asked to print these / copy to memory stick and complete Ex's 19 (q1) & 20 for hw.
You should trace through the example cycle until you are happy with the concepts involved in how the Fetch Execute Cycle works.

HW: Tidy up HBB's and print off blog for Parent's Evening tomorrow night.