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I want to share a blog with you which is made by me and another guy about the Intensive Programme here in Trondheim…

» iptrondheim2010.wordpress.com

There you can find daily updates what we did each day plus pictures. You might want to check it out

Yesterday we did a first tour through the city…

First, some facts about it: Trondheim is the 3rd most populated city with a little more than 168.000 and the 256th biggest/smallest city in Norway.

When we went to the city, we very quickly noticed that we will have to take care where to step, because the streets and sidewalks are littered with massive ice and/or snow It was not too easy to get to the city center itself… and to be honest, it was kinda dangerous

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Yesterday I had my trip to Trondheim, Norway. But is was not as pleasant as I expected…

The journey started in Zurich, where we had to wait quiet a long time to get checked in in the “group check-in”. Boarding was unproblematic and the flight was nice too. It took about two hours.

Arrived in Oslo, the uncomfortable part started… Getting out of the plane it said that domestic flights need to pick up the luggage and check it in again… What the fuck?! Why that? In every flight I had until now it was not like that…
Well okay, I was there picking up my luggage and… yeah… they actually broke my bag!! The wheel was defect when I picked it up.

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Tomorrow, the day will be there to travel to Trondheim (Norway). Why are you asking?

Well… I am participating in a so-called “Intensive Program” (IP) for the FH Vorarlberg. Those IPs are every year and some universities from around Europe are participating (Dornbirn (AT), Trondheim (N), Amsterdam (NL) and a university from Ireland, but I don’t know which one). And this year it’s taking place in Trondheim!

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Dear readers of this blog,

I am proud to notify you, that in September 15th, 13:50 I passed my final bachelor examination.
The degree I have now is I will have from October 9th on is “Bachelor of Science in Engineering” (B.Sc.)

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Finally! Today I “delivered the package” or handed in my bachelor thesis. To be exact, I handed in version #1. It has to be revised by the supervisor of my thesis and I will have to correct some things and/or remove/add some things to hand in the final version somewhen in August.

Topic: “Network Access Control – Comparison of the technologies and implementation of a TNC architecture”

For those who are interested in that topic, I will publish my final thesis when my bachelor exam is finished (I am not allowed to publish it earlier).

The result of my last exam (.NET) just reached me. I got exactly 50,00%, 4E. A very bad grade! Specially because I did learn quiet a lot to that test. But to be honest, it was  an unfair test.

I am not satisfied with my grade! But I won’t repeat it “just for fun” (to get a better grade).

At least, now I can concentrate to 100% on my bachelor thesis (TNC and similar technologies + setup of a TNC architecture).
» Bachelor thesis status: ~35% (only theoretical part until now. Tomorrow I am getting my hardware to realize the practical part)

Today was the last normal exam in my bachelor career. An exam about .NET.

What I have to say here is that the exam was a frickin’ asshole-exam! The questions were way too detailed. Nobody will ever need to know those things we have been asked. I can work very well with the .NET framework (I have references!), but in that exam there were some questions I didn’t have a clue what he wanted to know!

The only thing I can do now is waiting for the result. Let’s hope it will be positive.

If not…

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Just a few minutes ago, an email reached me from my Spanish teacher: The result of my Spanish exam (beginner 1).

I marked 97% in the exam (written and spoken together). I am satisfied with this result, but I expected 100%.
But to be honest: The exam was very very easy!

Yesterday, I had to hold a presentation about MDA (Model Driven Architecture).

Shortly: It is a design approach for software development. Source code is generated from a specification. This is not to compare with the CASE approach in the 90’s. The CASE principle was, generating as much as possible, even the software architecture. MDA is following another goal: Generating only as much as it is reasonable. (20% to 80%, depending on the system specifications). The design approach MDA is based on the strict separation of functionality and technical details.

For those of you, who are interested in this topic, you can visit OMG’s website (developer of the MDA approach) for further details.

The presentation itself went more or less well. The professor interrupted quiet often my presentation which brought me out of my “peace of mind”.

Little advice: Don’t update to an experimental graphical driver and kernel the day before your presentation… (catchword: using the notebook on a beamer) It’s not necessary a good idea!