Three pieces of coursework turn up at once. Amazing. Nothing for weeks then this happens? Not to worry though, they’re not even mind numbingly dull. One — for Internet Software Development — is basically “here’s an XML datasheet, filled with information, make a few Java server pages to manipulate the data”. My work partner and I have pretty much knocked that up in three days. Tomorrow’s the last day I think we’re spending on it, which is to create a DTD for it. I’m not too worried.

Second piece is a database ERD which turned out to be more complicated than I expected. That’s not a bad thing, it was sort of fun realising how we’d made a mistake in reading the scenario and how much one tiny sentence changes the entire diagram. Just have to make a list of assumptions about the scenario that we’ve decided on and that should be done.

Another piece is for OO Software Design. Make a Java class and document it, mostly. Pretty simple and likely boring, so I’m going to pick a ridiculously hard, functional scenario (rather than something ridiculous like a “person” class that does nothing). I don’t think that has to be in for a while, so I think I’ll get the above two pieces of coursework out of the way first.

There might be Agile coursework, but really, who cares.