Exams – the bane of my life at the moment! Although I luckily only have three during January, two of them are subjects I really don’t get at all!
For example, on Wednesday, we have an exam for requirements engineering. Now although I can see the importance of getting requirements from people to build systems, and also to model them…why on earth do I need to know how to model time?! It just isn’t going into my head in the slightest, which is a bit concerning…
Semanic Web (note caps for the proper W3C representation!) is the other problem area this January. Again, I see why the Semantic Web is useful, and understand how it works – but in an exam, why did I mostly get asks to write essays about it, than demonstrate a knowledge of how it works (such as RDF, SPARQL, etc.), that was a bit irritating.
My last exam is somewhat easier – Advanced Databases. Although it claims to be ‘Advanced’ – apparently introducing the concept of a database backend to an application counts as advanced…even though I’ve been doing it for two years 
Anyway, revision break over, let’s try to understand some more Requirements Engineering…
This entry was posted on Monday, January 26th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
