Finally, after yesterday speed coding on information retrieval (IR) assignment, I am done with projects! But left with report to do for today before I can finally start with exams. Slept more than 40 winks, lol, in fact its a total of 12 hours - a long time since I had a good sleep.
After much deliberation throughout the semester here and there, when I finally concluded to take up a minor - Lol, what came as bad news is that, my status would have become "Graduate" - Ie: I can't take up the minor :( Sigh. Can't really blame school [why ya don't wanna earn my money!! :X *cough*], lol I could have worked around it if I had state one elective as UE. That way, I will have credits left to be cleared and...
"YOU CAN'T CHASE ME AWAY!" *smug*
Oh well, since I guess, god is playing a trick on me...
Having taken the Poly path, and now Uni. I find that many of the courses here in U were similar, maybe a little more in-depth. But however, most of the courses you need to further your studies in order to make them really useful. The 4th year was the best : showcase of many different things you can do with the knowledge you have:
- Computer Game Programming [I didn't do much, this is prolly the worst subject due to complexity of the game engine [undocumented too ><;] I had taken but the exam was super easy lol. Open book and you can really copy paste the tutorial answer in - and get A]. But I do think, the take-away here is, programming may not be this static, I came across a few tools I never had thought of how to use: Kinect [got one of these at home!], 3D Max [I should really learn this].
- Machine Learning. One of the toughie subjects due to too much maths. Lol, our prof even says that Singapore grads have really bad maths, when they go over to overseas to further studies. Lol, I guess, we prolly do when half the class were nearly dying trying to answer some of the questions in class. Oh but anyway, my interest in this subject was stirred by the second prof in this course - who shared lots of stuff you can do with this course - especially if you like $$! xD.
- Information Retrieval / Natural Language Processing / Data Mining : these section was like the real meat in this entire Computer science program. Although I feel that I did kinda bad for some of their assignment, but yes, this is real thing. Much of the stuff we had always used [GOOGLE], we never really thought of how things were processed backend. Lol, but through these 3 course, "Hey I get it!" I wanna build a career on this!
- Intelligent Agent. The most confusing course! Rofl. After working on the project, we had a nice ending to the project where our prof gave away the prize money to the team who the competition. :D. Well we didn't win, but we had good results. :D [ahem some groups' bot were playing the game differently] But lol, when it gets down to understanding agent, it looks a bunch of if-else statement, or do-while loops. Thats the part where I couldn't get past ><; Otherwise this is a really nice, and abstract course. Very very very abstract.
The much worry from graduating came from : landing myself in a job that says "web developer". Thats kind of scary - there are many people out there who can do powerful coding even without a cert. I want to find a company, that could make my knowledge useful and not let it rot. And of course, there are things I wanna consider in future:
- Own bakery store! More popular and delicious than breadtalk [lol their breads were priced high but taste sucks for most]
- Own physical store for students to book in and discuss project, study etc.
- Develop search engine [idea is still under construction]
- Make a second-to-facebook-like-social-engine : and sell it! [looool~]
- A trend engine analyser.
Of course all these idea were still under construction in mind. Someone mentioned this before [can't rmb the exact phrase]
- When you have an idea, you should consider the few hundreds of people who had this idea too. The only thing that differs you all, is who gets down to implement it. :)
