Summer Term

Thankfully summer term is over and I have submitted all of my grades. So, as long as i don't have anybody argue over their grade I am finished with summer school responsibilities. I have a conference presentation in Toronto (August 16th) and the Fall term starts on August 25th. Basically I have to prepare my presentation as well as prep a new class that I am teaching for the first time ever. I know the importance of analysis and design when developing systems but have never taught the class before. So, it could be an interesting semester.

I plan to have some hands on development tasks (working with actual companies) that will give the students an opportunity to plan a real world system. My goal is to provide them the chance to use their work in my class as a stepping stone for their capstone class in system's development. Hopefully they will use the system they investigate as their project for the final class. I guess we'll see if my plan works out for them and they find benefit in it.

Building Update: The roof trusses are supposed to be delivered on Tuesday morning and hopefully the guys will begin to install them that day. I'm hoping that they will start putting steel siding on by Wednesday. If the weather cooperates I should have a building by this coming weekend. It will be exciting to see the place begin to look like a real building.