Final Reactions!

The end has arrived!  Although this is really just the beginning.  This was my first course on my way to getting my Masters in Information Assurance.  This was also my first "real" online course (I took the required library class during the summer).  Overall I had a fantastic experience.  I do not have much "official" IT experience, but I do know a bit.  This class was a great introduction into terms and trends, some I knew, some I did not.  I learned a lot, and this was a great course to get me on my way into the wonderful world of IT.  I liked the class set up, I enjoyed the class discussion, I thought the exams were fair, I really enjoyed how all the work done was not just reciting back word for word from the text book, but using the knowledge acquired from the text and then applying it to real world situations.  The group project was very interesting where you had to create a paper based only off discussion online.  This could end up being very beneficial because in today's business world, a lot of business and reports are done with people who my not be in the same office, the same building, the same state or even the same country.  Things I learned in this course will not only benefit me in my future professional endeavors, but also in my personal life.  I enjoy technology (I just wish it wasn't so expensive) and this helped me understand a lot of it better.  I just want to thank Les (Dr. Pang) and everyone else in the class, it's been a great experience and you all taught me a lot.  I wish everyone the best going forward and maybe I'll run into some of you in other classes as well!

Since there is no video footage of us I'm using the Seinfeld farewell montage as our unofficial class farewell montage.

Week 10 reactions

The end is approaching!

So we have finished the chapter in our book and spent this week mainly focusing on our paper.  There are some difficulties trying to coordinate a project between people who never meet in person; however, my group has seemed to do a good job of everyone taking a responsibility and getting the work done.  I learned a lot about how data driven policing is these days and how much IT is playing a part in fighting crime.  Other than our paper we had to make a change to a wikipedia page that was based on a topic from our class.  Everyone knows you cannot trust everything you read on wikipedia, but it was interesting to see some of my classmates changes and to make my own.  I have never made a "serious" change to wikipedia page.  I made a change to the fuzzy logic page.  Fuzzy logic is very interesting to me.  Just how it effects AI in general to me is fascinating and that it can bring AI reasoning closer to our own.  I thought the page lacked a general basic description of describing what exactly fuzzy logic was.  I liked the description in the textbook and chose to paraphrase that as my change.  For my discussion topic, I chose closed vs open source.  I like to follow smartphones and the constant battle between Android and iOS.

Each system has it's positives and negatives and sometimes it depends on the users preferences, but it is a huge debate and it was interesting to read my classmates responses.

One more week left!  Final exam time this upcoming week.