Mobile Devices and Applications

Year 3 Semester 2 Results

Today I received my final set of grades for my BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Hull – This included my two second semester modules, Mobile Devices and Application and Distributed Systems Programming, as well as my Final Year Project.

I achieved a grade of 85% in Mobile Devices and Applications, and 89% in Distributed Systems Programming.

The final year project was worth twice as many credits as each second semester, and so had more of an effect on the final grade. Thankfully I did quite well in the final year project, achieving a grade of 86%.

My overall weighted average for this year, including my first semester modules grades, is 86.5%.

This grade, weighted with my second year grades, means that my final grade for my degree as a whole is 86% – a very high first! I am of course over the moon with this.

I’d like to again say thank you to everyone who has made my time at university not only great for learning, but truly the best three years of my life (so far! :P). Particularly, but not limited to:

Rob Crocombe
Simon Watkins
Hayley Hatton
Russell Billingsley
Toby Russell
Jon Rich
Tom “Jeff” Procter
Special mention to “our American foreign exchange students”

Dr Martin Walker
Eur Ing Brian Tompsett
Rob Miles
Dr David Parker
Dr Peter Robinson

And of course anyone I spent time with in the labs or any of the many, many nights out in the first two years. Last but by no stretch of the imagination least thanks to my Mum, Dad, Brother and Sister for supporting me throughout the last 3 years.

I’m looking forward to trying to maintain this good score next year at York! Of course I will continue to do this blog throughout my time there too.

Danny

Semester 1, Year 3 draws to a close

Yesterday I had my last exam of the semester, and handed in my interim report for my final year project. Those two things being done signals the end of the first semester of the third and final year of my Bachelors degree. Exciting times.

This semester has been an interesting blend of very challenging, incredibly interesting and quite good fun — and though there have been a few times when I’ve felt slightly overwhelmed by work I’m glad I took the modules I did and felt I have learnt and achieved a lot!

I will receive the results for both “Languages and Their Compilers” and “Data Mining and Decision Systems” on the 24th of February, I will of course update the blog when I know what grades I have achieved.

Looking Forward

As you can see from the above timetable I expect to be spending a lot of my second semester of this year working on my final year project, an IDE for the programming language PHP.

Alongside my project and studies I will also be continuing in my role as an undergraduate demonstrator for the department of computer science. In the forthcoming semester I have been tasked with helping out students on the 1st year module “Programming 2” which teaches object orientation and other concepts in C#.

The two modules I will be taking in semester 2 are “Mobile Devices and Applications” and “Distributed Systems Programming”

Mobile Devices and Applications is the module concerned with developing mobile apps with a good user experience, knowledge of different mobile platforms — such as iOS, Android and Windows Phone — and technologies — such as 3G, 4G and WiFi. I am aiming to do really well in this module as I have already developed quite a few mobile apps.

Distributed Systems Programming is a module about the “architectures, technologies and programming paradigms used in implementing and deploying distributed computing applications”. A distributed system is “a software system in which components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages”. I’m looking forward to this module because I really enjoyed networking in year 2.

I will of course keep the blog updated throughout the upcoming semester. Bring it on!

Danny