Haven’t blogged in a while, despite my promises to do it more regularly every time I post! Sorry to all my loyal readers.. I know you’re out there somewhere!

Things are hotting up at uni, a lot is going on. So far I have found out that I am actually still doing software programming, which I was told not to expect. Essentially this is going to be my biggest module as well. We have been tasked with making an Android game. The game is a typical pirate/treasure game. Users must be able to login, have a friends list and receive notifications. They must find clues, and upon resolving the clues, move appropriately across the map to dig up the treasure. They can also bury treasure and leave their own clues for others too find. All of these actions must be updated on a global map and shown to everyone. Any friends must also be notified of any found treasure or any new clues that have appeared.

Basically, it’s complex. Compared to the past projects we’ve done, it’s like learning to count to ten, and then being told you must learn calculus. Not good. Thankfully the majority of the marks come from the organisation of the team and how well you can document what you are doing. It will be a lot of writing and pansying about. I think it over-complicates things when you go this deep in trying to organise projects, but it isn’t my choice how we do it! Never the less, I am still looking forward to it! Should learn lots.

Other modules don’t seem too bad, and I’m looking forward to most of the other assignments as I view them as more achievable. Web Programming is a new module which leads on from Web Develepment Tools which I did last year. We’re now doing dynamic pages, so naturally that means PHP. I’m really looking forward to it. If you’re confused about all this talk of modules, check my Uni page, it contains useful links.

The BUKC has kicked off again, and I went to the first test session at the weekend. As per usual, it was chaos. Lots of people who’d never touched a Club 100 kart, and you could tell. In my first 15 minute session, every lap I had was yellow flagged! My second session was better and I was able to get the fastest time in for Aber, but that was still only 17th out of 30 odd teams. Unfortunately this year we don’t seem to have any fast freshers so that is not great! I’m debating as to whether I will try and compete in the championship. I’m living in private accomodation this year, which is about double the price of uni digs. Rent comes before karting, apparently.

All for now!

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