Friday Grinds

This Friday I'm holding grinds again ... The plan is to meet at 230 in the foyer of nci, and take it from there

Like before email me and let me know whos coming.

Beginner programming grinds starting

After to talking to some of you, I will be starting some beginners programming grinds this week.

The plan is to meet in the foyer of NCI at 330 on Wednesday and find a room from there. (if I can book a room I will)

This week I plan to cover the very basics of computer programming so I will be starting with HTML with CSS with the hope to move on to javascripting in time. These should form a nice foundation to start programming with.

Email me to let me know if you will be joining us.

N.

Posts to the Blog

Evening All,

If you wish to post something to this blog, I need to give you access via your Gmail account. so email me with your Gmail if you want to post up here also...

N.

Citrix V's Google Chrome

For the Google Chrome users out there...

I have a work around to allow you use Citrix on Chrome

1) Install and Run this XenApp Receiver for Windows 3.0
Note : Download the "For Web Access" edition
2) Log into NCI's Citrix server as normal
3) Work away happily

If all else fails use IE for this.

The reason why IE works and chrome doesn't, is simple, NCI have a Microsoft backbone and as such everything is tested for IE compatibility anything else doesn't count. The downloader on the Citrix application is for IE and not chrome.

Happy Citrix-ing
N.

Eduroam V's Gmail

I can Imagine many of you have forwarded your NCI mail to your respective mail clients for pure convenience, so here my surprise when I log on to eduroam and then onto Gmail... I get a lovely DNS error. so I thinks to myself... how locked down is this place...

www.facebook.com.... whamo... I'm in... Strange Methinks

I have logged a ticket with IT services, I was told that Yes there is a problem with it at the moment, but they will update me when it is resolved

N.

Programming Help Offered

This is a post for any of you who are week or uncertain about certain programming principals.

• If you are coming from a Procedural programming background
• If you have never programmed before
• If Object Oriented Programming, is just an abstract Idea

I'm willing to help anyone in the class with getting to grasp the important programming concepts,

I can program in

• C
• C++ 
• Java 
• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS

Feel free to contact me on my NCI email, its redirected to my personal email.

N.

Deployment

This is worth repeating from the lecture

Assignment Weighting

1. 10% Multiple Choice
2. 10% Deployment (Cloud Foundry or Heroku)
3. 30% Project (Azure)

This means that if you get 100% in each assignment it will be worth 50% of your overall final mark for deployment. From NCIs standing you need to get a minimum of 20% in each element ie (exam and overall assessment mark) to pass... 

A rule that is used in DIT and, one that I think is very good... is to aim to pass all elements, and forget about what percentage is needed to scrape the bare pass mark.

I'm not sure but I think the pass mark is 35-40% but I will update this.

For those of you who didn't pick this up in the lecture

• "Security" is a very important topic it is in every aspect of deployment
• C# will be our language of choice or if you brave Visual-basic (Don't expect any help in VB)
• Knowing the difference between "Data Recovery" and  "High Availability"
• Knowledge of Databases is very important

V.Sahni's Contact Details

Gmail   -> Sahni1@gmail.com  

Twitter -> @sahnivi

Setting up Ubuntu (Easy Mode)

1. )  Install Virtual Box
2. )  Download the Ubuntu Image 
3. )  Open Virtual Box 
4. )  Create a new machine 
5. )  Type a name for the Virtual Box & select Ubuntu from the drop-down box
6. )  The Virtual Machine defualt is 512mb if your machine is 2gb or more select 1gb memory
7. )  Select "Use existing hard disk" - and navigate to the location of the downloaded ubuntu image
8. )  Start the Virtual Machine 

Login Details
User: lvl9
Password: password9

EduRoam

For those of you who are on WiFi...

1) Select EduRoam from your Network Connections.

2) When prompted for a user name and password as follows

U: ncir-campus\x123456789
P: <Your moodle Password>

For more information take a look at the NCI- Eduroam Page here

Heads in the Clouds

Welcome all 75 of you...

I created this with the intention of being able to post information that's Just relevant to us... I know there are 3 class groups taking these Level 9 Modules...

Since our time table is less then Legible I'm going to attempt to rectify that here

Monday :
18:30 - 20:30 (Advanced Client Side Scripting - Theater 2 )
20:30 - 21:30 (Deployment - HLab 3.03 )
21:30 - 22:30 (Advanced Client Side Scripting - HLab 3.03)

Wednesday :

18:30 - 20:30 (Web Application Frameworks - Theater 2 )
20:30 - 22:30 (Deployment - Theater 3 )

Saturday: (Every Second one from the 24th of September)
09:00 - 13:00 (Web Application Frameworks - HLab 3.03 )

I will update this as time continues
A link to the original timetable is here (Note you will need to login to view)

Slán
N