Foreign Perspectives

I actually made a small start on this towards the end of July but August just pulls away from me every year so I’m only getting back to it now.

As always the TMAs on this course seem harder than you’d expect for a level 2 course so there’s quite a lot of work to be done between now and Friday. Typically too, the suggested timings for the various parts of this practical are way out: it took ages just to get the coding sheet sorted out yesterday and it’ll probably take getting on for a couple of hours to do the coding of the two videos today.

Having said that, once that phase is done the actual writing of the text doesn’t look like it will take overly long. Of course, I thought that with the last TMA too and sometimes it took a couple of hours just to write a few hundred words on it by the time I’d thought about what to write and looked up all the references. Lots of work for just 72% 🙁

Worryingly the course website for SK277 (my next course) opened up on Friday. That let me do the first part of work on that, namely downloading all the textbooks and whatnot that course teams upload these days. As that course starts in the first week of October and ED209 doesn’t finish ’til October 21st I’m planning on reading over the course text for it starting now thus spreading the October workload over two months.Usually, I’d have started at full speed with it now but I don’t think that’s really a runner with the overlap and I’ll be aiming to build up my preferred one month lead time after the ED209 exam is out of the way.

Anyway, must head off to get going on that coding now…