DT210 students - Richard's classes while he is away

While Richard is away the DT210 classes will be:

Mon, 3rd Nov - 6:30pm, Damian Gordon (3h Databases)

Wed, 5th Nov - 6:30pm, Svetlana Hensman(A308, 3h Programming and patterns)

(UPDATED) Mon, 1oth Nov - 6:30-8:30pm Deirdre Lawless, 8:30-9:30pm Damian Gordon

Wed, 12th Nov - back as usual, 6:30-7:30pm with
Richard, 7:30-9:30pm with Svetlana

Case studies update

This Saturday there will be a case study presentation @ 11am:

Michael Porter on realising return on investment for IT projects. Michael has been a consultant for 20 years for many of the top business consultancy firms in the US and Ireland.

There will be no afternoon seminar.

You should also consider attending the Drupal event that the school is hosting on 15th November and the Microsoft Embedded world tour which the school is hosting on Friday 28 November. You are also welcome to attend either of the game design workshops on 22 November and 6th December. There will be case studies seminars on 6th December also:

Declan O'Sullivan (TCD) - Autonomics
John Hoey (Norkom) - Knowledge Management

For your first assignment please write a short paper as per the guidelines on the course website on either:

1. How to get an MSc/Introduction to research methods/What is research?

If you have already started a report on one of the other case studies topics, please submit that.

I've set up case studies assignments in webcourses.dit.ie. Your first assignment is due on

November 22nd

See you on Saturday!

Bryan

From Damian Gordon:

Databases and Information Systems Class early start

The Monday, November 3rd class of Databases and Information

Systems will begin at 6:30 as opposed to the regular 7:30 start,

and will be three hours as opposed to the usual two hours.

Internet systems class cancelled tonight

Tonights Internet systems class is cancelled as I haven't stopped sneezing since I woke up this morning :-( Classes resume next week. Please have a go at the XHTML tables, forms and frames examples and have a look at the course note on those topics.

Case studies

Dr McPartland's case studies notes from Saturday's case studies class are now available.

Room Change

The room assigned for DT230 Project management for this term has changed. It is now KE3-002 from 18:30 to 21:30 on Wednesday (same time different place).