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  • Week 6: 4th Mar - 11th Mar

    • Task Breakdown: Weekly meeting takeaway: The main topic of this week was the design spec. How are we going to approach, it, how is work going to be broken down, what needs to be done when and how. We've decided to meet up on Sunday to discuss this, further detail will be added to this page once ...more

  • Week 6

    • Finished up the slides for the architect team on Monday after having a review session with the whole team indicating what has gone well, what is still missing and what to improve on. I was disappointed with the amount of work everyone has done as I left them plenty of time but everyone decided to ...more

  • CS22120 - Software Engineering: Week 5

    • Peter and Andreas joined the architecture team in order to speed things up, and Alex and I have our first meeting about QA work. Attended test specification review ...more

  • CS22120 - Software Engineering: Week 4

    • Continue working on the architecture document. Was elected as deputy QA ...more

  • CS22120 - Software Engineering: Week 3

    • This week I did further research into timer libraries mainly noting down methods and what they achieve according to ...more

  • CS22120 - Software Engineering: Week 2

    • Met with Rowan to discuss the architecture draft, discussing libraries for timers and storage and structure. Also arranged a meeting with UI and JavaFX ...more

  • CS22120 - Software Engineering: Week 1

    • Had first meeting with the group. Was assigned to work on the architecture draft. Completed the GitLab ...more

  • Week 5: 25th Feb – 4th Mar

    • Task Breakdown: Weekly meeting takeaway: In this week's meting we addressed progress on last week's items and have devised ways to split work more evenly as well as an investigation to find more potential work to do in the coming weeks. Personally, last week was a bit rough and scheduling didn't line up so I'll get together with ...more

  • Fifth Post About Software Engineering Project

    • This week I was styling JavaFX interface of the application prototype so it looks neater right now. I added good - looking animations for transition between windows. I also added additional functionality to the application. Right now user is able to delete rows from routines table and rename them. I changed the confirmation window so ...more

  • Week 5

    • I have moved on to the architect team to really push the team into developing their work so we can catch up because we are really far behind and I want this part of the project to be back on track by next week Wednesday. I developed meetings with JavaFX and the architect team to ...more

  • Week 4

    • This week I start to add more to the JavaFX program with Bartsoz cleaning up code, creating new drafts, making new bugs and starting to do research closer to the actual UI. Me and Bartosz have to start doing the architect code behind the JavaFX to actually develop the code since the architect team is ...more

  • Week 3

    • Me and Bartosz start to develop the JavaFX and create a few drafts, starting to make an actual exercise program that works. However, we have a lot of bugs in the code which we end up fixing. Creation of the history and creation of the routines are being added. I also change the way I ...more

  • Week 2

    • I have created some example slides based on the brainstorming I have done the previous week, I used some of my previous work so I could use that as a template. I also spent the week re-teaching myself JavaFX spending a few days re-learning. During the week I had a meeting to showcase some of ...more

  • Week 1

    • Worked on creating the GitLab repository with the team after our first meeting. I also started looking at brainstorming some ideas for JavaFX. Thinking about different slides and what would be needed. • Meeting: 1 hour • JavaFX brainstorm: 2 hours • Total: 3 ...more

  • Call for Proposals: Learning and Teaching Conference 2021

    • We are now inviting proposals for the 9th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, Wednesday 30th June – Friday 2nd July 2021. Submit and view the call for proposals here. This year’s conference theme, Improvisation within Constraint: Reshaping a Learning Community in a Time of Change, aims to reflect the commitment that AU staff have to enhance the student learning experience. ...more

  • Software Engineering Project Week 5

    • During this week, Peter and Andreas were moved onto the archictectural team. With their help we began work on finishing up the presentation. My task for this was to create more verbose descriptions of the uml diagrams, and to ensure diagrams were up to standard. A review meeting was held on monday 1st to ensure ...more

  • Software Engineering Project Week 4

    • During this week, I produced a use case diagram for the program Hours Spent: 4 ...more

  • Software Engineering Project Week 3

    • This week, I worked on producing uml class diagrams for the ...more

  • Group Project Software Engineering: Week 3

    • Coming into week 3 I had a reply from Chris Price having emailed him earlier in the day. The question was about doing tests that went over multiple functions of the program. He said that in a way we could do this by having tests run off each other where the next test would be ...more

  • Group Project Software Engineering: Week 2 The Sequel

    • After the Wednesday meeting with the group everyone did really well in bringing what they did in the first week to the meeting unfortunately a couple members had trouble starting but should be fine for next week. During the meeting me and Jacob presented what we had so far to our group manager, Laurence, he ...more

  • Group Project Software Engineering: Week 6

    • The beginning of this week we had the review meeting for the test specification. Everyone we needed was present and we went over the document ready to be handed in. Only a few changes were needed and it was ready to be handed in before Wednesday. With the test specification ready I am waiting for ...more

  • Group Project Software Engineering: Week 5

    • This week the U.I document was handed in by Aaron and feedback came in a few days later, I feel it was a good piece of documentation and the feedback was very helpful on what to do for the next to come. With this and having the normal meeting on Wednesday, the next documentation to be ...more

  • Week 5

    • This week I got drafted to the architecture group, I could contribute more to the group project, I also contributed to the "pre" review meeting we had on Friday on the test documents, and worked on the architecture presentation I also took a look at the code that has been written by the UI group. ...more

  • Group Project Blog: Week 5

    • The first week of taking over as full-time project leader and honestly I don't feel like I've done as much as I should of. Most of my working hours for the week have been in meetings coordinating and reviewing work and I find out last minute that work assigned in a meeting I didn't take ...more

  • CS221 Week 5

    • This week the group met for ~1 hour to discuss and give feedback on the Test Specification. A few days later the Test Spec group met with the JavaFX group to note areas in which the Test Spec disagreed with the current JavaFX build, which also took ~1 hour. I spent approx ~3 hours implementing ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 1/3/2021

    • As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past ...more

  • Why and how we manage Blackboard enrolments

    • One of the most common queries we get is from people who aren’t enrolled on modules in Blackboard. Our standard answer is that staff and students should be enrolled on the module in the module record in AstRA. Once this is done, it takes about an hour for that enrolment to make its way to ...more

  • Week 4: 18th Feb - 25th Feb

    • Task Breakdown (revised): Weekly meeting takeaway: In this week's meeting we had a discussion about more administrative items like deciding project leader roles and QA roles. Additionally, we went through and checked the blogs, I noted that I should be noting the date of each item, so from  now on I'll add a date column to the ...more

  • First post about Software Engineering project 2021

    • This week me and my group started to work on the project. Firstly I met with my group on Discord server and figured out how to use Git and how to add materials to GitLab repository. I also read project introduction documents. All of this in total took me about half of regular day. Me ...more

  • Second post about Software Engineering project 2021

    • As I gave an initial design to the application that our team is going to be working on, I decided to bring this design to life. With Aaron’s permission I left UI part of project for now and I moved to JavaFX part of it. For the entire week I was cooperating with Peter. Firstly we ...more

  • Third post about Software Engineering project 2021

    • During this week I was working with Peter and people that were responsible for architecture documentation and design. I attended three meetings. During the first one we were talking about how our program should be build from code development side. We discussed main problems, classes, UML diagrams prototypes and we walked through libraries which will ...more

  • Fourth Post About Software Engineering Project

    • This week I was continuing on working with JavaFx. The most important thing I did was to figure out how to add video to JavaFx program so that program doesn't spit out any errors and shows video. Right now I'm ready to receive exercises videos from other people from the group and put it into ...more

  • CS221 Week 4

    • This week the group met to review the User Interface Presentation document and the Use Cases document. I pointed out a few details that needed addressing, and noticed that the UI Presentation needed to be updated to compy with SE.QA.02.I did a small amount of work on the Test Specification this week. Formalised last week's ...more

  • CS221 Week 3

    • This week, I wrote the introduction for the Test Spec. I first read SE.QA.02 to find out what should be included in the introduction, and how it should be structured. After that, I spent a few hours drafting an intro into the test spec .tex file. I also added a subsection detailing how the Test ...more

  • CS221 Week 2

    • During the second tutorial meeting, sub-groups assigned to tasks presented what they'd worked on so far. Nathan screenshared our first draft Test Spec with the group. Laurence advised that the questions we had concerning our task be taken to Chris Price. On Thursday I met with Nathan and Aaron, we discussed what aspects of UI would ...more

  • Week 4

    • I contributed to a planned review meeting about the UI document I gave some of my own thought on the UI, to add a pop-up box when the user is hovering over an exercise to show a brief description of that exercise. I also played around with IntelliJ Making a little code that runs something ...more

  • SE Project – Week 4

    • This week, the team met up together and caught up on the architectural side of the project, whilst also getting the UI documents completed and UI design itself down. Everything is stringing together very nicely, and before we sent the UI documents off, Aaron, Bartosz, myself and Peter all had a meeting to check that ...more

  • SE Project – Week 3

    • This week we assigned the main roles within the group project, with myself being named the QA Manager. To keep up with this role, I looked over the rest of the SE.QA's to understand how everything should be done and made in accordance with the SE.QA ...more

  • Group Project Blog: Week 4

    • After our Wednesday meeting, we arranged a meeting for Friday where I could receive feedback on the UI documents I had created and make adjustments before submission. We also planned on covering the QA summary during the Friday meeting but Alex our QA manager was unable to make the meeting. After receiving feedback and having ...more

  • Call for proposals deadline - Mini-Conference: Embedding Well-being in the Curriculum

    • On Thursday 25th March, the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit will be hosting the second Academy Mini-Conference online of this academic year. The theme will be 'Embedding Well-being in the Curriculum', where will explore the links between mental well-being and learning and how this could help to maximise success for both students and staff. The three ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 22/2/2021

    • As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past ...more

  • Week 3: 11th Feb - 18th Feb

    • Task Breakdown: Meeting takeaway: In the meeting we discussed a few things about our progress last week. I finished my role as the code works fully but I'm to help with making sure we're crystal clear on what exactly the functional requirements are so we can make proper tests. I might also help around with any other ...more

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 15/2/2021

    • As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past ...more

  • Week 3

    • During this week's meeting I didn't have time for presenting the material I prepared for the week SE.QA.7 and SE.QA.8, and I helped in the meeting we had on Sunday 14.02 for the architecture group and UI group shared some thoughts and ideas I had for the ...more

  • Group Project Software Engineering: Week 4

    • Not a lot happened towards the end of the third week. After the meeting everyone went their separate ways and on Sunday we had a meeting. Unfortunately I couldn't make the start of it just catch the tail end. It was about the architecture of the project and Peter showing his UI. On Monday we ...more

  • Group Project Blog: Week 3

    • In the previous week's meeting, we began to decide on our project leader and quality manager as well as a deputy for each of those roles. I was given the role of project leader while peter became my deputy. while I haven't really started to fully take on the project management role but me and ...more

  • External Speakers: Mini-Conference: Embedding Well-being in the Curriculum

    • As announced last week, on Thursday 25th March, the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit will be hosting second Mini-Conference this academic year. The theme will be 'Embedding Well-being in the Curriculum', where will explore the links between mental well-being and learning and how this could help to maximise success for both students and staff. Submit ...more

  • E-learning Enhanced: Interactive Blackboard Tools Training Sessions

    • The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit is pleased to be running our E-learning Enhanced training sessions again this semester. We’ve got a session scheduled for each of Blackboard’s Interactive Tools: Discussion Boards, Wikis, Tests & Quizzes, and Journals & Blogs. In addition to this, we’ve got a number of Welsh Medium workshops on ‘What can I ...more

  • Group Project Blog: Week 1

    • SO a quick summary of what occurred in week 1. Got assigned our group on Wednesday, I was honestly surprised that there were 9 in our group. After the tutorial was over and we had been assigned our roles we created a discord server for the project and set up git hub for file sharing, ...more

  • SE Project - Week 2

    • This week was a slower week, I was only tasked with putting the word document I had created into a PowerPoint for the group so that they could look at the QA Summary of SE.QA 1, 2, and 3 in a more user-friendly manner. ...more

  • Software Engineering Project Week 2

    • During the second week I met with Dan to discuss the architectural draft. We discussed libraries to be used in the program, and the general structure. A meeting was also scheduled with the UI team to coordinate our research with their ...more

  • week 2

    • This week I made a presentation about. Review of the code and about operating procedures and management standards this presentation was made for next week's ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Chwefror 2021

  • OA Repository Newsletter – February 2021

  • Weekly Resource Roundup - 8/2/2021

    • As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past ...more

  • Software Engineering Project Week 1

    • During the first week I met with my team to assign tasks; following this meeting we completed the git practical. My task for the week was to work on the architectural ...more

  • Week 2: 4th Feb - 11th Feb

    • Task Breakdown: Meeting takeaway: From the meeting we determined that for storage, a JSON based solution would be more ideal as a SQL based system could be overkill or unnecessary work due to all the overhead needed to set it up accounting for multiple users that won't exist in the final program. Besides that it looks like ...more

  • Week 1: 28th Jan - 4th Feb

    • Task breakdown: Elaboration: The first week of the group project! This week our main aim was to get everyone to a good level of understanding about what we need to do and what we need to know to be able to achieve what we need to do. So after the meeting we set about doing the GitLab practical for ...more

  • Mini-Conference: Embedding Well-being in the Curriculum (Call for proposals)

    • On Thursday 25th March, the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit will be hosting the second Academy Mini-Conference online of this academic year. The theme will be 'Embedding Well-being in the Curriculum', where will explore the links between mental well-being and learning and how this could help to maximise success for both students and staff. The three ...more

  • CS221 Week 1

    • Prior to the 24th Jan group meeting tutorial, I read through the Requirements Spec. During the meeting Laurence introduced the group project and discussed the nature of the weekly group meetings. The group volunteered for various tasks to report on by the next group meeting and I, along with Nathan, was tasked to start work ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter – January 2021

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber - Ionawr 2021

  • SE Project - Week 1

    • During the first week, I had gotten to meet my new groupmates and our project manager. Nothing too serious this week, but we were all assigned with tasks to complete for the following weekly meeting. Alongside this, we set up the group repository where most of our work is going to be done via GitLab.I ...more

  • Group Project Software Engineering: Week 2

    • In the second week of the semester on Tuesday I spent just over an hour reading through the documentation I needed to read to start on the testing specification. Having to read the Quality Assurance Plan, Test Procedure Standards and re-reading the Requirements Specification for Exercise. Having done this, me and Jacob have decided on ...more

  • Group Project Software Engineering: Week 1

    • In the first week of the semester, we got assigned into our groups on Wednesday for the CS22120 module. In the group we have to develop a "high quality software 'product'" and do all the documentation, implementation, testing etc... to a professional standard. Here on this blog I will write what we and/or I do ...more

  • Week 1

    • In week one I got familiar with all the content on blackboard involving the project, I also did the git practical with the group after the meeting on Wednesday 27 of ...more

  • OA Repository Newsletter – December 2020

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Rhagfyr 2020

  • Bell v Tavistock: a quick explainer

    • This blog post is intended as a quick explainer on Bell v Tavistock. It is not intended to be a full analysis nor nearly as comprehensive as a finished article would be. It is just here to help avoid misunderstandings or misinformation in the interim. First of all: a pet peeve of mine is when people ...more

  • Cylchlythyr Mynediad Agored @ Aber – Tachwedd 2020

  • OA Repository Newsletter – November 2020

  • I ddathlu #DyddIauTraethodau Wythnos Mynediad Agored 2020

  • To celebrate Open Access Week’s #ThesisThursday 2020

  • WELCOME

    • Welcome to the blog of the Department of Law and Criminology at Aberystwyth University, Wales’ first law school and one of the oldest in the United Kingdom. This is a relatively informal space for members of the Department’s academic staff to post brief articles on law and criminology. From time to time we will include ...more