I tried the first couple of weeks of the Building Web Applications, but I won’t be continuing with the module.
I was hoping that there’d be some deep insight into the pros and cons of the Java web applications and the JSF framework and RESTful Web Services, but it was pretty clear that we weren’t going to cover enough ground to make the course worthwhile. There’s also some pretty idiosyncratic approaches to writing Java code going on too, so it was all a bit strange.
I could have carried on through the module as it should have been easy to get a good grade but then I’m doing the course for the challenge and opportunities to learn more than for the letters after my name. It’d be a shame to lose out on learning something else.
The software engineering modules have been a little disappointing, to be honest – where I found the Computer Science modules assumed a challenging knowledge of maths and computing, the software engineering modules seem to assume little or no prior knowledge. Maybe that’s just my perception, having been working on-and-off in software development for the past 4-5 years.
On the bright side, I did get a lead on what looks like an excellent book to get stuck into JSF 1.2 in Core JavaServer Faces by Geary and Horstmann.
That means that I just need to revise the Patterns for e-Business course foe this set of exams. In Autumn I’ll continue with Computer Science modules and it’ll be once more unto the breach with the whole logic thing, so I’ve pulled a couple of books out of the library to get started with that again.
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IMHO, the ability to drop modules that you don’t like (without incurring penalty) is one of the great features of the particular MSc course you are enrolled in.