Final Year Options

29th February, 2008

The time has come for me to decide which final year modules I shall be taking for i-dat and its shaped up thus:

Dissertation (20 credits) and BSc Project (40 credits) – these aren’t exactly optional, they must be done.

IDAT310 Design for Entertainment Systems (20 credits) – we’ve already formed a group to work on this with and hence…

IDAT323 Programming for Entertainment Systems (20 credits) – …someone will need to have studied the programming side. I also expect to be able to use 3D, DirectX and C++ perhaps in my final year project.

IDAT311 Scripting for Digital Media (10 credits Autumn term) – Some hopefully familiar turf studying OOP in Flash and producing ‘something that does something’.

IDAT312 Narrative and Digital Form (10 credits Spring term) – should be nice apparently to study while writing my own dissertation.

 

I’ve also realised this is the only time I can post on this date for another four years…

Back to i-Dat

25th September, 2006

Some scary stuff has been revealed in the introductory seminar welcoming us back to the course, namely the fact that the first year will have appeared easy in comparison to the second.

That and a lot faster pace.

And the lecturers won’t really be all that bothered with us or our work since we’re not in the first or final year. Additionally, they had some students come in from finishing the second year to fervently substantiate all of this. Sounds absolutely smashing.

Also, my Bamboo Landart Sculpture based on the works of Andy Goldsworthy has survived yet more terrible weather in the form of the heavy winds created by the dying hurricane Gordon. A few more months to go and it will become a year old! Hopefully we here in the Southwest will get some reasonable snow for once (not dartmoor though, they certainly get their unfair share) and I can take some interesting snowy photos…