Jason's Week 9 Lecture

My first observation in this lecture was that he likes to use the word DAMNIT and FREAKIN a fair bit....good emphasis I suppose.

Apparently in this lecture we were supposed to be learning about Cybertopia, but Jason decided he wanted to teach us about software.

The main points I took from his lecture were to not expect to learn everything about software in a matter of days. He said that it is virtually impossible. Although software is built to be simple, it is also built to be deep...layered I suppose (like an onion or a cake if you have watched Shrek).

He also said that the best thing to do when it comes to software is to teach yourself. He emphasised that there is no point paying for classes on using software as you can get pretty much get everything you need off of the internet.

The help section on software seemed to be a bit of an issue.....I think the words 'it sucks' was used. However, Jason recommended joinig forums where you can ask questions and find help and information. He also recommended joining a number of forums. It was mentioned that although googling it is an option, you are basically guessing what to put into a search engine, based on what other people have entered in as their site... This probably seems pretty straight forward, but I found this interesting because I've never looked at it like that.

The biggest and most important point to me was SAVE SAVE SAVE! He said to save your work along the way. Even though he used the example 'Arsewink 1...Arsewink 2, Arsewink3...etc.' he said to save it as something you can identify easily. To me it is fairly straight forward to save your work, but I haven't ever really thought to save it along the way. By doing this if you lost the 10th copy and step of an assignment at least you could go back to 9th copy and step and you haven't lost absolutely everything. That was probably the biggest thing I learnt in this lecture.