• Feedback Bookmarks (James Wheatley)
  • Haven't been handed out yet
  • ACTION: ITO to arrange for them to be handed out
• Maths Hand-in for 10th November (James Wheatley)
  • ACTION: Stuart to check with ITO that they can be handed in on the 9th to the ITO
• 1st Year Functional Programming - Solutions to past tutorial exercises are wanted (Thea Koutsoukis)
  • ACTION: Stuart to speak to Phil about solutions
• 2A Assignment
  • ACTION: Stuart to ensure that it is handed out
• Ceilidh
  • ACTION: Stuart to meet with Neil later this week
• OOP Report
  • Forwarded to Ewan
  • ACTION: Meeting to be arranged about future direction of the course
• Whiteboard Space
  • Not enough whiteboard space in AT
  • Possibly have some of the whiteboards taken from the Forum
  • ACTION: Stuart to speak to Neil
• Drought
  • Shouldn't happen again
  • Possibly due to coursework deadlines
• Computers on the Walls
  • Worldwide shortage of small form factor PCs
• WebCT IM
  • No kind of alert when somebody IMs you
  • ACTION: Stuart to speak to computing support about getting Skype on DICE
• 2A lab on Wednesday
  • No demonstrator or announcement that lab is in progress
  • ACTION: Stuart to check what's happening
• Database Systems
  • Second assignment issued, still quite ambiguous
  • Better specification required
• Programming exam at the beginning of the year?
  • At the beginning of first and second year, it might be possible to have a test about the programming skills required for the year
  • This would enable students to identify deficiencies and fix them before they become a problem
• MSc Reps
  • ACTION: Stuart to try and get some to attend the FTL meeting
• Inf Base
  • Seems to be going well
• Maths for Informatics 3
  • Taking too long
  • Structured more like the exam questions, which is good however
  • Not using the microphone
• Maths for Informatics 1
  • Calculus lectures are incomprehensible
  • Slides too full
• Maths for Informatics 4b
  • Same lecturer being used this year
  • HUGE scaling of marks last year
  • Still, at least we did better than the specialist maths subject that he taught
  • He thinks his notes are AWESOME
  • Board of Examiners will be monitoring the situation carefully to ensure that the paper is not too difficult
  • Maths have been alerted to the problems

-- Main.s0915100 - 22 Oct 2010