Friday and the end of my second full week, as mentioned in yesterdays blog my current project is getting up to speed with web based engineering. I have now completed the W3 HTML tutorials and written an accompanying tutorial for cut/paste code snippets without having to trawl the internet. Yestarday I also started on the CSS tutorials (which is a bit bigger than I expected) and looking to make a dent in the Javascript tutorials by close of business.
Something worth mentioning here is that although I am still in my incubatory phase here I have noticed a big difference in how I am learning, I think I am being exposed to a wider range of techniques in software development and over the last few days I think I have covered more of the database procedures than I did on the databases module at Napier. I understand its pretty big of me to say that while not having applied the skills professionally however the difference seems to lie in that we were taught within the confines of the coursework we were working towards, although we touched on a broader spectrum of topics in lectures some of the methodologies and techniques we discussed were easily placed at the back of a folder since they weren't part of the working set or simply forgotten since there was no practicle application of the fringe subjects.
Given the time and resource constraints at Napier (in terms of lecturer time/workload/resources etc) I would imagine that there is not alot of opportunities for deviation in the run up to a coursework.
Here over the last fortnight I have seen deeper into the capabilities if the technology we use and still only really scratching the surface, whats next......?
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