"What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger." - Nietzsche
After lunch, as we were at the furthest lab (the ghostown lab) killing time, Shoun encountered a game from the official website of the new and upcoming Ice Age movie (Ice Age: The Meltdown). It seemed childish, but when things got started, we got addicted to it. What drove Shoun and me in making that creature Scrat jump further and hitting geysers along the way was the drive and ambition to beat the high-scores (...haha).
Instructions -- Ready -- The Take-Off -- Mid-Air -- Landing
Made it!<-- Link to the site -->
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Afzal and I met the 'kind' man, Mr Dhason Padmakumar. We had setted up an appointment with him last Friday, and we wanted to see him to seek help in designing a database and making normalisation for the database for our WM project. Our appointment with the kind man was at 2pm, so we waited at the Level 4 staff location without much noise. Dhason came around 2:05 pm. So we began the discussion with the kind man. Before everything started, Dhason asked: "This is for FYP right?" We shooked our heads a lil' bit and murmered no.
Afzal and I took turns in explaining our problem and situation. Dhason attentively listened, and asked some questions along the way. In the end, what he did was he tought us the basics. He gave a scenario (the student-module-lecturer database-design scenario,... computing science students that studied any sh-t related to databases should at least know what I wrote about), and then proceeded with the explanation by creating the related ERD and the normalised tables for the scenario that he gave.
After he finished tutoring us, he then said to apply what he thaught and did into our project, letting us to come up with our own scenario for the project and thus design the database for our WM project.
All in all, the whole session with Dhason took just 25 minutes! Bloody hell. It went like a breeze, although it felt like more than an hour as both me and Afzal fully concentrated and adhered fully focus on Dhason's lecturing (and there wasn't any interruption from any third party).
Last week, after first meeting with him he told us softly but confidently that "Don't worry, I will make you expert in 1 hour". At the end of our session today, he asked us how long it took. We told him "25 Minutes". Dhason had a satisfied look on his face and soon after that told us "...see.....I've made you expert in 25 minutes". At the same time, Afzal and I had a feel and a look of some amazement and bewilderement and some shock on our faces and in our hearts. We were like laughing to ourselves in ourmind at that time.
One thing I learnt from Dhason when designing databases from today is this: that you should draw and come up with a correct and concise ERD. From the ERD, identify the attributes that accompanies each entity correctly and from this Dhason thaught us that you will be able to make the already normalised tables based on the entities and attributes identified from the ERD itself. No hassle for making normalisation through the different steps (no UNF, no 1NF, NO 2NF, NO 3NF, none of those bullsh-t....straightaway the normalised tables).
At the end of the day, I had mixed feelings about it. I felt good 'cause the kind man taught us in a valuable way, yet I was a bit dissapointed that he couldn't aid us specifically for our project (as that was the main objective wanted to be achieved from the session with him). Then again, Dhason's surely a busy lecturer, so he instead gave us the basic and let us explore for our own on how to create our expected outcome for our project.
One thing I wanna add, today Dhason wore a tie that only got the American Dollar notes on it (as it's design). Haha.....I find that mr Dhason is quite eccentric in the sense that of his taste in wearing ties. Always different than others, he usually wore a 'The Simpsons' tie most of the time that I see him. But he dresses well, smart and clean. He really seemed like a friendly and well-mannered man. On another note, Dhason's bushy moustache reminds me of Tom Selleck who was Thomas Magnum in Magnum P.I.......
Hmm.....what if Dhason had taught subjects such as FCM, PIA, WDI, OOD, DSA............
Afzal and I took turns in explaining our problem and situation. Dhason attentively listened, and asked some questions along the way. In the end, what he did was he tought us the basics. He gave a scenario (the student-module-lecturer database-design scenario,... computing science students that studied any sh-t related to databases should at least know what I wrote about), and then proceeded with the explanation by creating the related ERD and the normalised tables for the scenario that he gave.
After he finished tutoring us, he then said to apply what he thaught and did into our project, letting us to come up with our own scenario for the project and thus design the database for our WM project.
All in all, the whole session with Dhason took just 25 minutes! Bloody hell. It went like a breeze, although it felt like more than an hour as both me and Afzal fully concentrated and adhered fully focus on Dhason's lecturing (and there wasn't any interruption from any third party).
Last week, after first meeting with him he told us softly but confidently that "Don't worry, I will make you expert in 1 hour". At the end of our session today, he asked us how long it took. We told him "25 Minutes". Dhason had a satisfied look on his face and soon after that told us "...see.....I've made you expert in 25 minutes". At the same time, Afzal and I had a feel and a look of some amazement and bewilderement and some shock on our faces and in our hearts. We were like laughing to ourselves in ourmind at that time.
One thing I learnt from Dhason when designing databases from today is this: that you should draw and come up with a correct and concise ERD. From the ERD, identify the attributes that accompanies each entity correctly and from this Dhason thaught us that you will be able to make the already normalised tables based on the entities and attributes identified from the ERD itself. No hassle for making normalisation through the different steps (no UNF, no 1NF, NO 2NF, NO 3NF, none of those bullsh-t....straightaway the normalised tables).
At the end of the day, I had mixed feelings about it. I felt good 'cause the kind man taught us in a valuable way, yet I was a bit dissapointed that he couldn't aid us specifically for our project (as that was the main objective wanted to be achieved from the session with him). Then again, Dhason's surely a busy lecturer, so he instead gave us the basic and let us explore for our own on how to create our expected outcome for our project.
One thing I wanna add, today Dhason wore a tie that only got the American Dollar notes on it (as it's design). Haha.....I find that mr Dhason is quite eccentric in the sense that of his taste in wearing ties. Always different than others, he usually wore a 'The Simpsons' tie most of the time that I see him. But he dresses well, smart and clean. He really seemed like a friendly and well-mannered man. On another note, Dhason's bushy moustache reminds me of Tom Selleck who was Thomas Magnum in Magnum P.I.......
Hmm.....what if Dhason had taught subjects such as FCM, PIA, WDI, OOD, DSA............
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