Every Project and Assignment over, rest then Prep for Exam

Finished my last project yesterday, sleep less that 30 mins the previous night, doze off would be more appropriate, then went to present the project at 11am. My group members and I were not really prepared for the presentation so it did not go really well. After the presentation we stayed back and continued to work on our codes, oh, I did not mention, it was a software project.

We were in groups of 3; all of us aimed for high distinction in the beginning, that was why we were paired by our lecturer. Sadly, 1 of the guys did not live up to expectation. He did his part at the last minute which was why we were not prepared for the presentation. He was even late for the presentation, worse still was that his codes were all chunked into 1 place and repeated a lot of codes that could be replaced by functions. We are learning to be programmers and both me and the other group members were totally annoyed by this. The fact that he said he wanted to get high distinction in the 1st place made it worse.

We tried to teach him good programming methods but he seems to ignore it or he simply totally does not understand it. We needed to burn our codes into a CD and handed in to our tutor by that day so I took the whole day after the presentation to change all his codes, he left for other work. Repeat => I only sleep less than 30 mins! Me and the other guy wanted to give a really well documented CD as we felt bad for the presentation, not mentioning the fact that we have spent a lot of time on it, so we stayed even longer to run trials for the 'readme' file.

We were the last few left in the lab and the tutor who is a very friendly guy came over and told us he graded us 85/100 for the project. WoW, totally unexpected. He explained that although our presentation was not good, we managed to show all the functions that were required for the project + some additional features. The majority of the class was just fanciful with little functions in their codes or they just knew how to talk. He also said that the co-ordinator might moderate the grades depending on the overall result. :)

I had another presentation on last Thursday, the 1 with the oral examination of 4 questions that weighted 10% each. I scored 8/10 for the presentation and managed to get all 4 questions correct! This mean that I have gotten my 1st high distinction in Uni. Hope I can get high distinctions with those that comes with exams as well.
posted by Estan @ 9:33:00 AM (GMT+08:00).