Teaching yourself SDD. (1 Viewer)

[raymes]

i think you said it yourself, we all have our opinions. im just saying that when some very knowledgeable people 'clarify' something you've said you should consider what theyve said since it is likely to be of equal, if not more value than your perspective. even if you consider it wrong, isnt it better to come to some sort of constructive argument? theyre not trying to put you down -- we're here to learn not to have some competition.

IM not tryna put u down - i know uve said some insightful stuff before and the more contribution to the board, the better.

 

[SamD]

i think you said it yourself, we all have our opinions. im just saying that when some very knowledgeable people 'clarify' something you've said you should consider what theyve said since it is likely to be of equal, if not more value than your perspective. even if you consider it wrong, isnt it better to come to some sort of constructive argument? theyre not trying to put you down -- we're here to learn not to have some competition.

IM not tryna put u down - i know uve said some insightful stuff before and the more contribution to the board, the better.

Ditto... We're all here to learn from each other.

 

[juventino]

Dude (dastonecutters)...your trying to argue with the guy that wrote most of the sdd texts books around.


So it's worth being nice to him till the hsc

 

[nick1048]

my major was a poker machine. I'm still workin on it but all in all it works.

 

[raymes]

my major was a poker machine. I'm still workin on it but all in all it works.

what was this thread about again??
oh but since we're on the topic, check out my project - http://x-commander.cjb.net
=)

 

[sladehk]

Sam Davis, would you mind me asking whether writing SDD books has raked in big bucks or if you need to do part time jobs like programming or web design's?

 

[SamD]

Well put it this way, I'm driving a Mazda, not a Ferrari! But then again we regularly eat Steak and rarely suasages, so I do OK!

Currently I spend about half my time writing texts and the other half programming (oops, I mean Software Developing). My income is higher than a teacher but less than a footballer!

 

[Casmira]

Sorry to bump an ancient thread, I got the sam davis book and started now studying for my trials, however I find some dot points aren't even covered in the book and I have to work off other resources, I got 3 books and several summaries, each of the 3 books gives me a different answer, for example, to employment trends, increased contracting, increased outsourcing to save money and types of programming languages required (of course i wrote like at least a paragraph on this), but I need to be doing this for like every heading!

Also, Its like the study Im doing is pointless, I feel like it is because its just like most the time not in the HSC, I see it as having no great effect, currently I've finished social and ethical issues, and development approaches upto defining and understanding (1 day per topic), I study by working off 2-3 books and a few summaries and writing down the summary, headings i feel confident for I just write from one book, but if you read carefully, you sometimes don't feel comfortable with the answer a book provides on heading so I'd gather more sources and write a summary, I also write a 'mind map' for that topic at the end and answer a load of questions from leading edge SDD

Does anyone think this would help!? I seriously think the SDD HSC just full of 5% of what im studying and the rest algorithm interpretation (Which is my strongest point in SDD)

 

[SamD]

Let me know which dot points are not covered and I'll try to clarify/help?

(Mind you the Social and Ethical Issues stuff is not exactly one of my strong areas of expertise).

HTH
Sam

 

[Casmira]

Its only a few in Social and ethical issues but I got it coverered I just did some research

Thanks for the offer though anyway, I'll try to complete the study and get back to you

however where are the answers to your book!? our teacher is a little dodgy with the answers and plagiarising

i dont blame you for not liking social and ethical issues, i fell asleep studying for it

 

[surfsup_melly88]

hey cas, im SamD's daughter, i was just reading this thread... i do SDD myself, and so i often look @ the SDD forum... dad said that the multi choice answers have been posted on this site last year sum time, and also that teachers can photocopy out of the resource kit... no problems with plagarism @ all...
HTH
melD (lol)

 

[Casmira]

thankyou mini-samdavis! (or melissa)
its not the use of your fathers resources, its my teacher just copying other website's authors work on visual basic tutorials without credit

i'll go searching for the MC answers however

by the way i was studying for metalanguages (implementation) and i was reading through example and your name was at the top of an example in an image, do i get a prize for picking that up!

 

[sunny]

*cough* answers *cough*

 

[Casmira]

nasty cough you got there

 

[surfsup_melly88]

lol have a look @ the prelim book (if u have it) on pg 243... the little boy eating spaghetti wif de bird... thats a pic of dads eclectus parrot and a close family friend while we were on holidays in byron bay de book is awesome, i love reading it seeing bits n peices about myself here n there lol

 

[Casmira]

haha! i wouldnt of picked that up as a family parrot, i got the prelim book still (borrowing it from school)

so cleverly disguised in that ulead screenshot

 

[surfsup_melly88]

HAHAAAAAAAAAA lol...

p.s. how'd u no my names melissa??

 

[DigitalFortress]

lol Melissa, your father made a program that we have on our school computers. Its basically a list of questions from SDD and IPT and once you complete all 415 questions there is this random video, of either you or your sister screaming something.
so wierd.