I wrote the Validation Methods for Distributed Systems exam today. Overall, I quite liked the course, though, as always, I will reserve the final judgement for after I receive my grade. It was the first CS course I took in a long time, the last one being FORTRAN77. In any case, it gave me a pretty good glimpse into an area of research I was not familiar with before. <\/p>\n
I still have an exam and a project for the other course I am taking this year, Distributed Systems Engineering. This course is a polar opposite, it is very engineeringy in a sense of let’s try a few things and implement the one that seems to work most optimally. I like the project so far. I’ve used Poisedon UML tool<\/a> and so far I am quite impressed with it. It is a lot easier to use that the Rational Rose tool I used last year. Right now I am using the free basic version, though I might consider buying the actual software (they have student prices) if I have to use UML again. One of the drawbacks of the free basic version is that images are exported with a giant Poisedon watermark on it and you can’t print directly from the application. I was also considered using Eclipse<\/a> as I’ve heard it was quite good, but with limited time that I have, I was willing to pilot only one new software application at the time so I stuck with the trusty Netbeans. <\/p>\n Geek out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote the Validation Methods for Distributed Systems exam today. Overall, I quite liked the course, though, as always, I will reserve the final judgement for after I receive my grade. It was the first CS course I took in a long time, the last one being FORTRAN77. In any case, it gave me a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p278IQ-v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}