i just woke up from a 17 hour sleep - processing what happened in my SE class

in the year 1900, president teddy roosevelt sent a letter to america saying that the PIANO is ruining music. coz everybody's playing the guitar and the piano was still new (so for them it sounded different). that didn't stop people from LIKING the PIANO.

i want a passing grade (75) and a shot at the softwareFest, i need a collection of opinions to be convinced that our game isn't worthy, not just yours.. i'm sticking with my piano.,

and while i'm at it, i don't rebut a person's argument by presenting another argument. I take what they've said and scrutinize the illogicality of it's thought. Thus, i'm still waiting for what you have to say about the software we're using, coz just before dismissal time, all that came out from you was your "love for your course"(so don't compare yourself with people coming from other courses) and how "everything in the real world is about code(so we don't need the software for the purpose of rendering the images in a way that it'll look professional)".


If my teacher gives me permission to discuss these things with her, in the most ethical of manners, it would be my pleasure. But i want it to be in front of the whole class when we're telling each other straight. For two reasons, (1) to clarify people's notion of the said professor in being biased 'AGAINST' our group and 'FOR' specific groups also involved with making the project and (2) to prevent the spread of different versions (rumors) of what really happened since doing the discussion in front of the class would already allow everyone directly involved with the issue to have a firsthand experience of it, reducing the instances of people in the same class asking about what happened.

First some observed contradictions:

~"you know class, maski black and white lang na mga stick figures ang interface ayos na"
in contradiction with
~"you know kasi class, if poor yung interface niyo, it would lead people to think na poor yung product niyo"

to interpret the lines would be self explanatory. The thing is to make the project, bearing these two contradicting things in mind makes every choice regarding the project a level higher difficult. especially that, upon abiding with the first, the bias of the second would take effect, and in abiding with the second, the sum of our skills as a group cannot produce anything of significance if forced to stay with the language my professor favors. namely, flash. which brings me to my own defense of why we used the language.

Software Engineering:
A Practitioner's Approach, 6/e
CHAPTER 5: SLIDE NUMBER 19
2ND and 3RD bullets

"pick a programming language that meets the needs of the software to be built and the environment in which it would operate. Select a programming language that will make your work easier."

need i say more?

Here's the thing. first, if one would judge the product GameMaker, by solely relying on the advertisements, one is mislead, coz as taught in the technopreneurship class i enrolled in as well as in the business management class me and my batchmate's we're in during the second year in college, sellers of these products try to convince everyone that what they sell is EASY, is LIGHTWEIGHT, is AUTOMATIC, is BETTER-SMELLING, is 3-IN-1, is all of these non-sense that aren't even true... IN ORDER FOR IT TOO SELL.

Second, we are talking about SOFTWARE FESTIVAL here. This is not an activity to hold just for the purpose of passing the course .The department would be broadcasting itself open to all of the people in the university and it is but proper to have programs in that event to be of best caliber. The vision is to remove the 'lapa man baga - boring' impression in most of the people that try and visit the booths in the softFest coz it's gonna hurt us IT's. The worst scenario i could fathom is that "we are all extremely enjoying and celebrating in the softFest...but just among ourselves". That's not nice, the class has forgotten the "COMMON GOAL", which is to "pull off the best software festival ever", and replaced it with "my group needs to win". '.What we produce, others will consume.', and it would be to an extent, stupid, if the only ones consuming what we've produced are ourselves. This is change happening, and this is us reacting to change...

"Quality Focus" - this is what we strive for, and the same course material puts more emphasis on this one rather than the "production tools". Reality check, output is everything. you don't present a product to any client explaining it's features like

"you see madam, when x == 0 it would call this function and read the input...blahbidyblah"

you say...

"when you click this button madam, it gives you a list of names"
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if there's one thing that my professor accomplished it's the destuction of our group's morale... i hope the healing process starts soon.

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