At last after waiting for about 1 month, the result of the exams are published. When I looked to my evaluation page, I was like freezing for about 5-10 seconds. The results are far more better than my expectation. Now, full 30 ECTS (6 courses) are already in my pocket therefore I passed the scholarship's limit that is 22 ECTS. Looking back to Sem-1, it's a tough semester since the courses are pretty new for me and I don't have high appetite for competing like I used to have in high school :P . So, what courses did I take in Sem 1? The courses are as follows:
1. Requirement Analysis Design and Verification
This course study about the process behaviour of a system, how to a specify requirement in a formal way, and how to verify whether the design already comply with the system requirement.It requires hard work in the beginning of the semester. Many mathematical proof in this course. Luckily, I did very well in the exam. Honestly, I'm not interested with this course, too many proofs we should make :P Why should we prove green its not equal to red if we already knows they are clearly different? Well, somebody may argue mathematical proof is a beauty (hoeeek) but for others its just a rubbish (me).
2. Generic Language Technology.
This course covers topics about language transformation. We use Meta Environment tool in this course. The documentation of the tool is very poor and we got into trouble since we have to use the tool for the assignments. Fortunately, Arya always found a magical way to conquer this tool in every assignment. I'm not interested with this course either. Even until in the mid semester I didn't know what actually the lecturer talk about :D But, I like the last part of the course, its about SLR, LALR parsing teqhnique.
3. Software Architecting
The BEST course in Semester 1. I really enjoyed this course (from System Architecture and Networking group). I like the topics and the assignment were challenging. I did very well in the quiz and assignment. The exam was a little bit tough than last year. Probably I will do master project in the area that related to software architecture. Oh yes, the lecturer is damn good! He's really expert in this area. By the way, he did his PhD under the supervision of Tony Hoare in Oxford.
4. Adaptive Systems
The idea of this course is a futuristic idea but the content doesn't reflect that. I do not know whether adaptive systems will have hot prospect in the future. Instead, I'm more interested to data mining topics in this course. For the assignment, again, the tool often behaves unexpectedly. But Arya still have his magic for this one :D
5. Metamodeling
Hmm...I don't want to comment on this one.
6. Web Information Systems
This is an interesting course actually. We learn about the web engineering, semantic web technology and Web 2.0. The lecturer is very strict. The exam was oral exam. It was a new experience for me. And I did not prepare well for the exam, but somehow I succeed hehe.
That's all folks, my academic journey in Semester 1. Not very interesting for me since I only like one course (that suits my interest). Does this statement mean I select the wrong program? I will keep the answer until the next post.
By the way, I think Semester 2 is more challenging! There is another course from SAN that is Real Time Architecture! How about the girls??? Still the same hehehehe Two dutch girls and one Asian girl. I will write about Semester 2 next time!
1. Requirement Analysis Design and Verification
This course study about the process behaviour of a system, how to a specify requirement in a formal way, and how to verify whether the design already comply with the system requirement.It requires hard work in the beginning of the semester. Many mathematical proof in this course. Luckily, I did very well in the exam. Honestly, I'm not interested with this course, too many proofs we should make :P Why should we prove green its not equal to red if we already knows they are clearly different? Well, somebody may argue mathematical proof is a beauty (hoeeek) but for others its just a rubbish (me).
2. Generic Language Technology.
This course covers topics about language transformation. We use Meta Environment tool in this course. The documentation of the tool is very poor and we got into trouble since we have to use the tool for the assignments. Fortunately, Arya always found a magical way to conquer this tool in every assignment. I'm not interested with this course either. Even until in the mid semester I didn't know what actually the lecturer talk about :D But, I like the last part of the course, its about SLR, LALR parsing teqhnique.
3. Software Architecting
The BEST course in Semester 1. I really enjoyed this course (from System Architecture and Networking group). I like the topics and the assignment were challenging. I did very well in the quiz and assignment. The exam was a little bit tough than last year. Probably I will do master project in the area that related to software architecture. Oh yes, the lecturer is damn good! He's really expert in this area. By the way, he did his PhD under the supervision of Tony Hoare in Oxford.
4. Adaptive Systems
The idea of this course is a futuristic idea but the content doesn't reflect that. I do not know whether adaptive systems will have hot prospect in the future. Instead, I'm more interested to data mining topics in this course. For the assignment, again, the tool often behaves unexpectedly. But Arya still have his magic for this one :D
5. Metamodeling
Hmm...I don't want to comment on this one.
6. Web Information Systems
This is an interesting course actually. We learn about the web engineering, semantic web technology and Web 2.0. The lecturer is very strict. The exam was oral exam. It was a new experience for me. And I did not prepare well for the exam, but somehow I succeed hehe.
That's all folks, my academic journey in Semester 1. Not very interesting for me since I only like one course (that suits my interest). Does this statement mean I select the wrong program? I will keep the answer until the next post.
By the way, I think Semester 2 is more challenging! There is another course from SAN that is Real Time Architecture! How about the girls??? Still the same hehehehe Two dutch girls and one Asian girl. I will write about Semester 2 next time!
