A few weeks back, I assisted my ID 106 Santugon friend, fellow course mate, Teejae Amorado with his MET-RES (Methods for Research - I think that's what it stands for).
Their system is somewhat of a warehousing system. He gave me the specific topics to research: Warehouse Management, Evolution of Warehousing, and the A*(A-star) Algorithm.
I was able to do the task successfully and was able to email him minutes before his deadline
I even learned from him that you can borrow thesis books of past students from the Faculty office. He told me to also look for a thesis with a system similar to theirs.
After that, I let him sign my certificate as proof of assisting him with his research. After that, he had to leave early to Muntinlupa so I gave the certificate to the prof instead.
I somehow got a small glimpse of what I will be expecting when I reach MET-RES
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Recalling DASTRAP
As part of the kindness in helping out students with the same course as mine (and to gain Social Points :P), I decided to help a friend of mine last Friday, JV Garduce, who happens to be two batches higher than me.
He seems to be having a hard time in DASTRAP, this is his third take by the way. I only took DASTRAP on one round and did not have a very hard time programming in Java, since I took this language back in Highschool. I decided to re-open the tutorial Java Files about Sorting Arrays which I made for my blockmates back in Frosh year. This file contained simple codes as well comments that explain almost every detail of the codes in conceptual or layman's terms for the reader to understand more about it.
I lent it to him as well as demonstrate him examples by programming fresh codes and explaining it to him. I also let him do some coding of his own so he can learn as well. I also taught him how to program getters and setters for his MP.
I missed Java, too bad I did not take ADVANPRG this term.
He seems to be having a hard time in DASTRAP, this is his third take by the way. I only took DASTRAP on one round and did not have a very hard time programming in Java, since I took this language back in Highschool. I decided to re-open the tutorial Java Files about Sorting Arrays which I made for my blockmates back in Frosh year. This file contained simple codes as well comments that explain almost every detail of the codes in conceptual or layman's terms for the reader to understand more about it.
I lent it to him as well as demonstrate him examples by programming fresh codes and explaining it to him. I also let him do some coding of his own so he can learn as well. I also taught him how to program getters and setters for his MP.
I missed Java, too bad I did not take ADVANPRG this term.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Finale Week
INTRICT Diaries - Week 13
This was our final INTRICT week before the Final Exam.
Sir Oli explained to us a brief information about our subject next term (if we pass INTRICT) which is ORGMGNT which stands for Organizational Management. He told us in advance that we should ask our parents if they know a company needing an IS. And we should be in a group of 3, a group of our choice. This time, I won't let the incident during the making of the term paper to happen again where my groupmates were slackers and had to be spoonfed with tasks. This time, ayoko nang grupong di nagtatrabaho. I want a group that I can get along with, is reliable, and cooperative. Ofcourse we should be able to agree on specific terms and plans in the least possible amount of time, para walang delay. The group we will be choosing will be the group we will be working with for the whole term for our ORGMGNT subject.
We were also told that what's unique about ICTM students is that they have defense every term. So come, second and third year, we must already get used to defending and reporting. Wala na dapat Mahiyain.
Sir Oli also made us go on a Friday to give us a bonus test para bumawi sa term paper namin. Because the passing was 70 and the highest was 72 and the lowest was 32. Sana di grupo ko yung 32. It was about the Organizational Units thingy and it was hard.
So it was my first time that I studied for one subject for 4 days straight (from Saturday to Tuesday). I wasn't able to read the last chapter pero the TODO PUYAT MODE and the massive wasting of a lot of papers to print the whole reviewer was worth it. I found the test to be err... OKAY LANG (except for the Sales thingy part). I was even able to answer the bonus questions with ease. Akala ko tapos na ko! Wala na toh! Now I'm sure I'll pass INTRICT! Sayang naubusan ako ng Upperbox tix sa ADMU-DLSU game! Now I'll have to go to Ticketnet early on September 1 but for now, TODO focus ko muna for CCSALGE Finals on Friday.
This was our final INTRICT week before the Final Exam.
Sir Oli explained to us a brief information about our subject next term (if we pass INTRICT) which is ORGMGNT which stands for Organizational Management. He told us in advance that we should ask our parents if they know a company needing an IS. And we should be in a group of 3, a group of our choice. This time, I won't let the incident during the making of the term paper to happen again where my groupmates were slackers and had to be spoonfed with tasks. This time, ayoko nang grupong di nagtatrabaho. I want a group that I can get along with, is reliable, and cooperative. Ofcourse we should be able to agree on specific terms and plans in the least possible amount of time, para walang delay. The group we will be choosing will be the group we will be working with for the whole term for our ORGMGNT subject.
We were also told that what's unique about ICTM students is that they have defense every term. So come, second and third year, we must already get used to defending and reporting. Wala na dapat Mahiyain.
Sir Oli also made us go on a Friday to give us a bonus test para bumawi sa term paper namin. Because the passing was 70 and the highest was 72 and the lowest was 32. Sana di grupo ko yung 32. It was about the Organizational Units thingy and it was hard.
So it was my first time that I studied for one subject for 4 days straight (from Saturday to Tuesday). I wasn't able to read the last chapter pero the TODO PUYAT MODE and the massive wasting of a lot of papers to print the whole reviewer was worth it. I found the test to be err... OKAY LANG (except for the Sales thingy part). I was even able to answer the bonus questions with ease. Akala ko tapos na ko! Wala na toh! Now I'm sure I'll pass INTRICT! Sayang naubusan ako ng Upperbox tix sa ADMU-DLSU game! Now I'll have to go to Ticketnet early on September 1 but for now, TODO focus ko muna for CCSALGE Finals on Friday.
Everybody Dance Now!
INTRICT Diaries - Week 12
As a punishment for getting negative points on the Database Exercise we had the previous week each group... MUST DANCE!
THE INTRICT DANCE SHOWDOWN!
GOD: "There is a new Commandment, (Commandment XI) THOU SHALT DO THE DANCE!"
Every ICTM block must dance. I think Sir Oli mentioned that only one group in the whole bacth won't dance. In short, ALL but that group danced. Were given choices of which to dance, the following songs were:
1. The Way I Are
2. Forever
3. Move Shake & Drop
4. Take You There
5. Closer
6. What is it
7. Get Low
8. Lollipop
*Remixes were allowed.
It was that day that I caught a fever. Nagpadala ako sa school. Kung kelan pa masama pakiramdam it had to be the day of the dance. This is where I sacrificed my health
Me: Sir pano yan? May lagnat ako!
Sir Oli: Okay lang yan kahit umupo ka nalang at manood
Me: (Nag-isip ng malalim) SIR SAYAW NALANG AKO! AYOKO IWANAN GRUPO KO SA ERE!
Na-guilt trip ako hahaha...
Here are the things I liked to share about the dance:
As a punishment for getting negative points on the Database Exercise we had the previous week each group... MUST DANCE!
THE INTRICT DANCE SHOWDOWN!
GOD: "There is a new Commandment, (Commandment XI) THOU SHALT DO THE DANCE!"
Every ICTM block must dance. I think Sir Oli mentioned that only one group in the whole bacth won't dance. In short, ALL but that group danced. Were given choices of which to dance, the following songs were:
1. The Way I Are
2. Forever
3. Move Shake & Drop
4. Take You There
5. Closer
6. What is it
7. Get Low
8. Lollipop
*Remixes were allowed.
It was that day that I caught a fever. Nagpadala ako sa school. Kung kelan pa masama pakiramdam it had to be the day of the dance. This is where I sacrificed my health
Me: Sir pano yan? May lagnat ako!
Sir Oli: Okay lang yan kahit umupo ka nalang at manood
Me: (Nag-isip ng malalim) SIR SAYAW NALANG AKO! AYOKO IWANAN GRUPO KO SA ERE!
Na-guilt trip ako hahaha...
Here are the things I liked to share about the dance:
- Kreeno the best. It was funny seeing him trying to catch up to his group.
- Si Quino IDOL! Magaling sumayaw at mangwarta ng pera! hahahaha
- Jet and Patrick looked like twins that day
- Ang lupet sumayaw nina Alvin at AC! Todo hataw! Astig!
- For the first time, I danced with a fever. I sucked in dancing cause Mark's moves were hard and I was sick.
- Sina Kim, Cesz, at Kris nag miniskirt! Kami ni Mark and Kevin: jacket, slacks, at cap lang! hahahahaha
- Nakaka-LSS yung mga kanta. Lalo na yung Forever by Chris Brown
Database, Storage, And The Y2K Conspiracy
INTRICT Diaries - Week 11
Monday:
As an introduction to Databases, We were group into 6 or 7 members randomly by counting. we were all given an exercise pretending to be consultants for a certain company. He gave us a list of Cars: the brands, the number manufactured, the number sold, the sales each year for every brand, and the cities they sold in. We were given questions to gather certain data such as how many cars were sold during a certain, What brand of cars made the most money in a year, What cities did were certain car brands dominant and how many were sold there, etc. Each question must be completed in 5 minutes. We we did all our best with our full cooperation but sadly, no group was perfect. We had less time to do stuff and our reports were inaccurate. We all incurred negative points.
Then Sir Oli showed us an example of a database system with query. He explained to us that this System does the same job we did. Only, it releases reports in less than a minute and are incredibly accurate because there are no man made errors, IBA NA TALAGA TECHNOLOGY!
Wednesday:
This is the day where we focused on the topic of Storage Devices, but first Sir Oli made an ending story to finish our topic about databases. He made us recall the Y2K issue that was feared during the Millenium's arrival.
Dito ko na nalaman yung totoong issue ng Y2k. Akala ko end of the world yun eh as in gugunaw na mundo sa year na toh, literally. It was actually a big problem for Programmers and Database Admins because the year will become 2000 and the numbers will be zeroes which will cause a very FATAL logical errors because systems that do a formula for their reports that require the year: such as banks, offices, accounting firms etc. will cause an unreasonable and inaccurate data. Programmers had to do massive re-programming of their Math codes to avoid the zeroes from causing a worldwide chaos. Ofcourse, nobody would want their sales to be zeroes or the amount of their bank accounts to be zero. La Salle faced this problem too, they didn't want all the ID Numbers of future students to become all 00000000 and so on.
Programmers started to act immediately since 1992. An 8 year preparation to counter the Y2k Conspiracy. Sir Oli even told us that many programmers didn't have a vacation during new year's eve because the programmers and Database Developers had to observe what will happen to the functionality of their system when the clock strikes 12. Luckily there are countries that conquered the Y2K issue but there were unfortunate countries who didn't. The Philiipines successfully evaded the Y2k. Natalo pa natin Australia, which failed to beat Y2K.
OKAY BACK TO STORAGE DEVICES, One of the interesting things I learned was the sizes of floppy disks. Floppy disks before were the sizes of envelopes then they gotten smaller and smaller till they were no longer used and new storage devices were made. But as time goes on, the storage devices' capacity increases but the size decreases from a enveloped size floppy disk that can store only bytes to palm-fit flash disk that can store Gigabytes of files.
This goes to show that for Storage Devices:
Monday:
As an introduction to Databases, We were group into 6 or 7 members randomly by counting. we were all given an exercise pretending to be consultants for a certain company. He gave us a list of Cars: the brands, the number manufactured, the number sold, the sales each year for every brand, and the cities they sold in. We were given questions to gather certain data such as how many cars were sold during a certain, What brand of cars made the most money in a year, What cities did were certain car brands dominant and how many were sold there, etc. Each question must be completed in 5 minutes. We we did all our best with our full cooperation but sadly, no group was perfect. We had less time to do stuff and our reports were inaccurate. We all incurred negative points.
Then Sir Oli showed us an example of a database system with query. He explained to us that this System does the same job we did. Only, it releases reports in less than a minute and are incredibly accurate because there are no man made errors, IBA NA TALAGA TECHNOLOGY!
Wednesday:
This is the day where we focused on the topic of Storage Devices, but first Sir Oli made an ending story to finish our topic about databases. He made us recall the Y2K issue that was feared during the Millenium's arrival.
Dito ko na nalaman yung totoong issue ng Y2k. Akala ko end of the world yun eh as in gugunaw na mundo sa year na toh, literally. It was actually a big problem for Programmers and Database Admins because the year will become 2000 and the numbers will be zeroes which will cause a very FATAL logical errors because systems that do a formula for their reports that require the year: such as banks, offices, accounting firms etc. will cause an unreasonable and inaccurate data. Programmers had to do massive re-programming of their Math codes to avoid the zeroes from causing a worldwide chaos. Ofcourse, nobody would want their sales to be zeroes or the amount of their bank accounts to be zero. La Salle faced this problem too, they didn't want all the ID Numbers of future students to become all 00000000 and so on.
Programmers started to act immediately since 1992. An 8 year preparation to counter the Y2k Conspiracy. Sir Oli even told us that many programmers didn't have a vacation during new year's eve because the programmers and Database Developers had to observe what will happen to the functionality of their system when the clock strikes 12. Luckily there are countries that conquered the Y2K issue but there were unfortunate countries who didn't. The Philiipines successfully evaded the Y2k. Natalo pa natin Australia, which failed to beat Y2K.
OKAY BACK TO STORAGE DEVICES, One of the interesting things I learned was the sizes of floppy disks. Floppy disks before were the sizes of envelopes then they gotten smaller and smaller till they were no longer used and new storage devices were made. But as time goes on, the storage devices' capacity increases but the size decreases from a enveloped size floppy disk that can store only bytes to palm-fit flash disk that can store Gigabytes of files.
This goes to show that for Storage Devices:
Physical Size Decreases = Storage Capacity Increases
The Term Paper and My RELIABLE(?) Group
INTRICT Diaries - Week 10
I think this will be more of a personal story than informative. GOTTA PUT MY ANGER OUT
This was one of my hell weeks. Monday, we were told to do a term paper about our field trip in Makro the previous week. 5 Chapters about how their System goes and we will be a group of 4. Those 4 memebrs in a group will be the same as the group during our Cocojuice Analysis Test. And the deadline was.... WEDNESDAY!
This was the week were I really was irritated with my group! Why? It was a Tuesday, we had to do the term paper ASAP at GUSTO NILA MUNANG MAG DOTA SA SHERWOOD! FINE! Pinagbigyan ko sila dahil promise nila isang oras lang! Sumama ako sa kanila so I wouldn't have a difficult time contacting them. Duh! Then after that di na sila tumigil. I was really Irritated! Nag Bilyar pa sila at naglaro nung shooting arcade machine sa Sherwood. While the other groups were already starting with theirs, I was already boiling my blood irritated at my groupmates laxing at a critical time.
After that there was only little time left till our Lab, my groupmates went to the labs and was that they were full, what did they do? TUMAMBAY MUNA! WHAT A SOLUTION! I was really iritated, I left them during that time went to the Conserv where my other blockmates and are actually DOING THEIR WORK. I told them my "Maala Mo Kaya" quality story and decided to help me do my Term Paper till Lab time comes.
It was Lab, Luckily one of my groupmates was able to finish his assigned chapter, chapter 1 which he started last night.
To make the long story short they were able to do their work but I had to massive improvement because what they did wasn't really considered a chapter. Half of the class was still awake at until 5am and my groupmates slep at about 12! WOW GALING! I WAS SABAW COMPLETING THE TERM PAPER TILL 4:30. They did was only minimal. May isa diyan seven sentences lang assigned chapter niya!
We were suppose to do chapter 2 altogether since it was the hardest but hell I had to do it myself!
Anyways our guess was that Makro had the ff. departments:
I think this will be more of a personal story than informative. GOTTA PUT MY ANGER OUT
This was one of my hell weeks. Monday, we were told to do a term paper about our field trip in Makro the previous week. 5 Chapters about how their System goes and we will be a group of 4. Those 4 memebrs in a group will be the same as the group during our Cocojuice Analysis Test. And the deadline was.... WEDNESDAY!
This was the week were I really was irritated with my group! Why? It was a Tuesday, we had to do the term paper ASAP at GUSTO NILA MUNANG MAG DOTA SA SHERWOOD! FINE! Pinagbigyan ko sila dahil promise nila isang oras lang! Sumama ako sa kanila so I wouldn't have a difficult time contacting them. Duh! Then after that di na sila tumigil. I was really Irritated! Nag Bilyar pa sila at naglaro nung shooting arcade machine sa Sherwood. While the other groups were already starting with theirs, I was already boiling my blood irritated at my groupmates laxing at a critical time.
After that there was only little time left till our Lab, my groupmates went to the labs and was that they were full, what did they do? TUMAMBAY MUNA! WHAT A SOLUTION! I was really iritated, I left them during that time went to the Conserv where my other blockmates and are actually DOING THEIR WORK. I told them my "Maala Mo Kaya" quality story and decided to help me do my Term Paper till Lab time comes.
It was Lab, Luckily one of my groupmates was able to finish his assigned chapter, chapter 1 which he started last night.
To make the long story short they were able to do their work but I had to massive improvement because what they did wasn't really considered a chapter. Half of the class was still awake at until 5am and my groupmates slep at about 12! WOW GALING! I WAS SABAW COMPLETING THE TERM PAPER TILL 4:30. They did was only minimal. May isa diyan seven sentences lang assigned chapter niya!
We were suppose to do chapter 2 altogether since it was the hardest but hell I had to do it myself!
Anyways our guess was that Makro had the ff. departments:
- Accounting
- Inventory and Purchasing
- Sales
- Marketing
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
Are You In or Out?
INTRICT Diaries - Week 9
An Input device is anything that can enter a data into a computer or any other electronic output device. Such examples are a keyboard in which the data you enter is text, A computer mic is also an input device because it also enters data in the form of sound, A PC video camera (more popular as Webcam) is also an input device that enters data such as video, A digital camera also enters data such as pictures, and much much more devices are existing in this technologically evolving world.
As a starter, Sir Oli made us watch a video about the electronic voting (or e-voting) scheme which will be experimented on the ARMM elections. Then he discussed about two possible input devices the government is planning to implement on the ARMM electronic elections, It could be either the DRE (Direct Reading Electronic) or the Optical Mark Reader (OMR).
1. The DRE is a proposed e-voting device which makes voters select their candidates by using a touch screen technology. When the voter has made it's vote, he/she will just have to press a button and wait for a small paper to print out of the DRE. That paper contains whoever he/she voted then he/she just needs to drop the small paper in the ballot box before exiting the precinct.
2. The OMR is another proposed e-voting device scans light patterns on paper. These papers are similar to when we took our college entrance test or diagnostic exams. We shade our answer and our paper will be "electronically read". The OMR is the one that read our sheets. The process on voting will be that voters will get an answer sheet containing choices of candidates they wants. They just need to shade their choice of candidate and when their done voting, they will just give to the election officials they're sheet and the officials will put it in the ballot box. When canvassing comes, the officials just have to enter the answer sheets into the OMR.
Advantages of e-voting:
Disadvantages:
Every Advantage has got it's competing counterpart, the Disadvantages (Most of them though counter the efficiency of DRE):
"An input and an output can never be separated. They must always be together for them to function"In this week of our INTRICT meeting we tackled on Input devices.
An Input device is anything that can enter a data into a computer or any other electronic output device. Such examples are a keyboard in which the data you enter is text, A computer mic is also an input device because it also enters data in the form of sound, A PC video camera (more popular as Webcam) is also an input device that enters data such as video, A digital camera also enters data such as pictures, and much much more devices are existing in this technologically evolving world.
As a starter, Sir Oli made us watch a video about the electronic voting (or e-voting) scheme which will be experimented on the ARMM elections. Then he discussed about two possible input devices the government is planning to implement on the ARMM electronic elections, It could be either the DRE (Direct Reading Electronic) or the Optical Mark Reader (OMR).
1. The DRE is a proposed e-voting device which makes voters select their candidates by using a touch screen technology. When the voter has made it's vote, he/she will just have to press a button and wait for a small paper to print out of the DRE. That paper contains whoever he/she voted then he/she just needs to drop the small paper in the ballot box before exiting the precinct.
2. The OMR is another proposed e-voting device scans light patterns on paper. These papers are similar to when we took our college entrance test or diagnostic exams. We shade our answer and our paper will be "electronically read". The OMR is the one that read our sheets. The process on voting will be that voters will get an answer sheet containing choices of candidates they wants. They just need to shade their choice of candidate and when their done voting, they will just give to the election officials they're sheet and the officials will put it in the ballot box. When canvassing comes, the officials just have to enter the answer sheets into the OMR.
Advantages of e-voting:
- Reliable - The chances of cheating can diminished. BEAT THAT CORRUPT OFFICIALS! Although this won't be reliable for OMR.
- Speed of data capture improves - Devices like the DRE can lessen processing time. It can even abolish the process of Canvassing, which can be a possible loophole for cheating
- Accurate and Correct - With e-voting, the device makes sure that the user voted a valid candidate. Because Filipinos love "Kalokohan", they would put names that are not on the candidates' list.
- Completeness - e-voting makes sure that the voter has completed all the necessary items to be answered. Many Filipinos leave many blanks on the voting sheets causing imbalance in vote counts for candidates.
- WOW I LIKE IT - Because of their user-friendliness, voters understand the convenience of e-voting.
Disadvantages:
Every Advantage has got it's competing counterpart, the Disadvantages (Most of them though counter the efficiency of DRE):
- The DUGYOT Factor - There are many dugyots in the country. Dugyot meaning unhygienic. This is a big threat for DRE devices. There's a greater possibility that the DRE will end up KADIRI. Many would not care and just press a button, after they pick their noses or wiped their asses. YUCK! What about those pressing the DRE machine? The touch screen's now full of booger and other personal dirt! Eeew... Better bring gloves and either an alcohol or sanitizer when the government decides to use this one. In fact, mag benta ka ng hygiene tools during elections. KIKITA KA!
- Disability Considerations - What about those with disabilities like a broken arm or hand? They are going to have a hard time. The same thing goes for the old folks. They won't really get to manipulate technology as easy as us.
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks"
- Cost and Life of Device - It is a fact that devices like the DRE won't last a day. When election ends, the DRE most likely are now dirty and destroyed. Because there are some that press really hard that it increases the possibility of getting broken plus, the Dugyot factor can be relaative with this disadvantage. The governement should also consider the number of people to vote and how long would it take for e-voting to complete the process. IMAGINE, how many DRE devices would the government supply for each precinct? How many voters are registered per Precinct? And how many precincts are there in the Country? THAT'S A BIG FINANCIAL CRISIS.
- Environmental Capability - Safety and Security of the devices is a must. Places like Basilan or NPA dominated areas are a great risk to place e-voting devices.
- Amount of Data to be stored - Data Storage is a big problem for e-voting devices. Would you just imagine the number of candidates running for a position, the number of positions there are, and the number of candidates each voter must vote. A party list for example, has an estimate 3000 parties running every elections, Fit that in a DRE or an OMR Sheet! This might make the DRE have a VEEEERRY LONG SCROLLBAR, and the OMR Sheets might become Paperback books! hahahahaha
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