Last weekend was again filled with mostly university attendance. And with every new term there are new challenges of course. What’s better than in the previous terms is, that it seems that now we’re having only qualified lecturers. In the previous terms we always had the one or other teacher where we had more difficulties with the style of lecturing than with the topic itself.
So, whats on the next half year? A surprise was a lecture on project work and presentations because I only realized shortly before the start of the lesson that this is a full-english lecture. But should be no problem at all. The lecture on security and cryptography delivers exactly what the title suggests. Think of hackers trying to break into computers, applications and websites, that’s one part of what this lecture contains. I guess the other part will be the opposite, how to prevent these attacks and to develop a feeling on security or insecurity of certain stuff.
For me personally the most interesting lectures so far are on mobile computing, system-close programming and specific chapters of software development. In mobile computing we’ll be programming applications for mobile devices using JavaME and the Android Platform (on which I incidentally already created my first application last week). System-close programming will lead us into the depths of C where we’ll be creating an own shell on the Linux platform. And in the last lecture on specific chapters of software development our class got split in three teams which will be working on a common project using agile and Scrum-influenced development methods. I’m on the integration team there but since I’m already very experienced with these methodologies the lecturer asked me to give more support to my classmates than doing actual work myself.
This all sounds as if it’ll become the most interesting term so far but I also expect it to be the most work-intense either.