"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." - Plato
During WM class, towards the end of the lesson, as he was about to show a video from one of those Google You Tube videos (and it was clip from Top Gear! A Lotus Elise going up againts an Apache helicopter in the battle of swerves and cornering....what the hellll....and I haven't seen Jeremy Clarkson in a looong time) which was loading painfully slow at that time (and he had commented that APIIT's bandwidth was phenomenal...haha), Mr Randolph talked to the class regarding FYP.
What Randolph said was the usual stuff that I've heard before...but there were also some new info that I didn't know before regarding tha muthaf-kin' FYP.
At first, Randolph said that if you are considering doing your FYP related to gaming, then you would probably most likely see him and have him as your supervisor.
He later said that for your FYP, you have two people 'judging' it: the supervisor (the one who aids, supports and pushes you throughout the FYP tenure) and the accessor (the one who assesses the project). Yes, heard this before, but what I didn't know was that Randoplh said that your assessor will be someone who has never met or been in contact with you throughout your lifetime at APIIT. This was a case stated by Randolph so that when marking your FYP there would be no situations of bias or prejudice, so that it would give a strictly fair marking by someone unknown to you. Now, as I heard this, I was like wondering whether it was really like that. (?) I mean, how many lecturers have APIIT got? I don't know, but there are lots of students and these students surely encounter lots of lecturers throughtout all their levels of studying, so what is the chance of them not encountering any new lecturer? Perhaps I'm mistaken....
Randolph also said that your FYP presentation, apart from being assessed by the assessor and supervisor, will also be assessed by the moderation board (all those 'mat-salleh' lecturers from the UK), and that your FYP presentation itself will be recorded on tape (nothing new here, heard it before). But what was suprising was that the 'tape' (and alongside your other FYP stuffs and documents) would be on a plane flying to be sent to the UK, where it will be assessed by those moderation people there. This was a fact from Randolph that I never knew and never thought. I always thought that the FYP tape and all the other related things would be assessed by the moderators when they come down to Malaysia and come down to APIIT, as they spent time in that blank room full of documents and sh-t like that. Hmmm....so I was wrong and got updated.
Thirdly, Randolph commented on the FYP documentations. He stated that you should be making three copies of the project's documentation: one copy of it that has the plastic cover on front (the one that would be submitted to APIIT), another copy that has the ...what you call it?... the hard bound cover is it.....the one that has the dark blue thick cover that is like those in the library....(what the hell is it call in English, the kulit buku) and a final copy is that it is just a copy for yourself. Now here's the new info: the first two copies mentioned are the ones that have to be submitted to APIIT, and when it does, you'll never get it back. That was why Randolph told the class to make themselves a third copy (for purposes such as having a copy of the project's documentation for yourself and also for job opportunity stuff). Perhaps Randolph told this just for our own sake, I'm not sure. Another thing, the copy with thick cover would be the one displayed at the library or at APIIT if your project gets a good grade (First class or second class upper) or it would end up in the storeroom.
Regarding documentation, Randolph adviced students to do a proper test plan. He said that not to do a test plan in which everything is tested with all expected results achieved, as it would considered 'total bollocks' by the assessor, since for each testing you are bound and should have come across errors as you try to clarify the programs or the system.
What Randolph said was the usual stuff that I've heard before...but there were also some new info that I didn't know before regarding tha muthaf-kin' FYP.
At first, Randolph said that if you are considering doing your FYP related to gaming, then you would probably most likely see him and have him as your supervisor.
He later said that for your FYP, you have two people 'judging' it: the supervisor (the one who aids, supports and pushes you throughout the FYP tenure) and the accessor (the one who assesses the project). Yes, heard this before, but what I didn't know was that Randoplh said that your assessor will be someone who has never met or been in contact with you throughout your lifetime at APIIT. This was a case stated by Randolph so that when marking your FYP there would be no situations of bias or prejudice, so that it would give a strictly fair marking by someone unknown to you. Now, as I heard this, I was like wondering whether it was really like that. (?) I mean, how many lecturers have APIIT got? I don't know, but there are lots of students and these students surely encounter lots of lecturers throughtout all their levels of studying, so what is the chance of them not encountering any new lecturer? Perhaps I'm mistaken....
Randolph also said that your FYP presentation, apart from being assessed by the assessor and supervisor, will also be assessed by the moderation board (all those 'mat-salleh' lecturers from the UK), and that your FYP presentation itself will be recorded on tape (nothing new here, heard it before). But what was suprising was that the 'tape' (and alongside your other FYP stuffs and documents) would be on a plane flying to be sent to the UK, where it will be assessed by those moderation people there. This was a fact from Randolph that I never knew and never thought. I always thought that the FYP tape and all the other related things would be assessed by the moderators when they come down to Malaysia and come down to APIIT, as they spent time in that blank room full of documents and sh-t like that. Hmmm....so I was wrong and got updated.
Thirdly, Randolph commented on the FYP documentations. He stated that you should be making three copies of the project's documentation: one copy of it that has the plastic cover on front (the one that would be submitted to APIIT), another copy that has the ...what you call it?... the hard bound cover is it.....the one that has the dark blue thick cover that is like those in the library....(what the hell is it call in English, the kulit buku) and a final copy is that it is just a copy for yourself. Now here's the new info: the first two copies mentioned are the ones that have to be submitted to APIIT, and when it does, you'll never get it back. That was why Randolph told the class to make themselves a third copy (for purposes such as having a copy of the project's documentation for yourself and also for job opportunity stuff). Perhaps Randolph told this just for our own sake, I'm not sure. Another thing, the copy with thick cover would be the one displayed at the library or at APIIT if your project gets a good grade (First class or second class upper) or it would end up in the storeroom.
Regarding documentation, Randolph adviced students to do a proper test plan. He said that not to do a test plan in which everything is tested with all expected results achieved, as it would considered 'total bollocks' by the assessor, since for each testing you are bound and should have come across errors as you try to clarify the programs or the system.
Besides all of that, Randolph gave what was to be the biggest advice of the day regarding FYP:
"Your supervisor is either your friend or your enemy."
Haha...I'm sure that you would get the point of the above sentence. As Randolph said it, a little bursts of laughter emanated from some parts of the class, but you could sense that in those laughters and amused expressions from everybody comes a sense of alertness as well, clearly getting the picture of the possibility of the assesor's character that he or she could go either way based on our own actions when we do our FYP. He mentioned that if you did your FYP research and activity and everything greatly, then your supervisor would be helping you in getting more marks and 'influencing' the assessor as your project is being marked. If your the kind of guy who likes to slack off.........then your supervisor would also be the kind who'll be slaking off you when you get grilled at the presentation.
In addition, another new fact coming from Randolph is that each student would be assigned a maximum of 10 hours per month to consult his or her supervisor.
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argh, tired of writing. There were some other minor details Randolph spoke about regarding all this talk on FYP, but can't really remember much. I'll leave it here. Maybe some other time I'll write up about this muthaf-ka called FYP next time around (most probably it'll be by the time it arrives after mid-year), but for now ciao. Until tha next chapta playaz....
In addition, another new fact coming from Randolph is that each student would be assigned a maximum of 10 hours per month to consult his or her supervisor.
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argh, tired of writing. There were some other minor details Randolph spoke about regarding all this talk on FYP, but can't really remember much. I'll leave it here. Maybe some other time I'll write up about this muthaf-ka called FYP next time around (most probably it'll be by the time it arrives after mid-year), but for now ciao. Until tha next chapta playaz....
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