Client & Server MIS Studs(UP Open University)

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“It is not a walk in the Park”

For the knowledge  of cyber folks, there is  no difference between  the regular mode of learning compared to what the UPOU cyber schooling programs are all about. Students must posses an initiative or disposition as what they are opt to be in  the traditional class room just to survive their online studies at UPOU. In  every situations, students  don't need to be procrastinate;   rather  be diligent enough in preparing  subject's  assignments throughout   the semester. Otherwise you will be a dead-line hitter as you will get a lot of pressure in  the end. Well, one thing I must not forget in attending   cyber classes, was securing a  powerful PC and fast internet connections to have  an attendance  and  a good interactions  in the virtual class-room.

One thing that I appreciated much of being a UPOU student was molding myself  the true value of self-discipline. Managing times and hectic activities  are very much important  , as they would say “Time is Gold” or else it would  be too late to realize how it feels to be a buzzer beater. Even though our  times were very much occupied, students need to visit and read all the news published in the  UPOU portal, and as much as possible should  interact to some discussions, posting or threads in  the forum. I mean with all these things-patience was a virtue to succeed.

Sometimes , its so interesting how we'd been communicating each other in  the cyber-world, as every meeting was required, people in  the different places and clock were having a unified conference . Not only that, we (UPOU Studs) were web crawlers also,because we used every social networking medium to tap and share web resources. We too were document patchers  and integrators, ie, one member's  task was to do   introduction, other would volunteer to share framework,somebody would be in  charge of the conclusion  , and the finale will be the editing of the entire documents which was assigned to the rest members of the group.Every participation is a must for everybody just to fast track  assignment and deliverable. As it seems gratifying to   upload all the contents of hardships before the portal would close.

As a UPOU student, communication  is not just saying anything about the agenda/topic or discussion  ,but rather a deep comprehensions and writing skills is a “must-have” for every UPOU students. In  order  to meet a common  decorum such as  FMA's, TMA's ,case studies,term papers and etc ,  a conceptualized,analyzed and synthesized answers  are essentials to deduce an assignment completely.

Well, how I wish to meet all my cybermates in  the real world, knowing the fact that they are so busy in  their  different field of endeavours, because of that, just only few of us were able to meet each other personally. My cybermates cooperations  ,dedications and contributions are precious in  surviving a UPOU learning, without the camaraderie and ideas that we've participated and contributed  in  the virtual room-I don't know if it would be easy for me to pass all the subjects alone.

For almost two years of studying at UPOU, I could say that what my teacher once said was true “It is not a walk in  the Park”-he is indeed right after all. Professionally and personally , I am aiming to finish the course as early as possible and badly needing funds for my project design  as well as its implementation. As much as possible I want to share my project applications to the UPOU community  as a legacy of being MIS alumnus -just hoping(praying) that the said dreams would  come true.

“How I wish, things I wanna be”

IS238, Client and Server programming is very much essential subject  included in  the MIS curriculum .The said post  degree poses an  expertise and an  advanced skills about Information  Systems with respect to its major fields and sub fields. These course refers to the study of designing,developing and implementing WEB technologies. Hence, the common  protocol which is technically involved in  developing such programs(RFC”s) are the CS protocol and structures, and the said courses should be the main  forte of all MIS students.

In  our experience, Client & Server programming course requires an  advance programming skills, a simple how-to's of programming is simply not enough to get in to the ladder of the difficulties of learning it. One student should have a wide experience of programming analysis just to understand how CS subject was designed to. In  the said course, Data networking , OS platform,hardware IO's , language programming are the subject matters that must be understood well by the students before they could have a CS application  design .

Another experience for this subject, was the explanation  of CS protocol applied to different programming languages , such as Java ,Perl and C . I also learned some hints related to network programming, and the familiarization  of the different header files which are being included in  C socket programming. One more thing , are the added ideas about C proper declarations of data types, pointers and structure functions which are critical(in  debugging) in  C coding implementations, and I have no choice but to dig out all these stuffs to extend my knowledge. During my previous work, we always used or coded C in  embedded , this is the reason  that helps me (at least) a little bit to understand questions and FMA's given  in  the portal.

How I wish to have an  expertise in  one of the challenging MIS course : System Methodology,Designing Communication  Protocol(RFC!) and be an extreme tweaker and debugger of CS protocols and structures. But one semester will not be sufficient to master everything in  the said course, and so , I need to reinforce again  my time in  the lab, and try to code some topics that were mentioned in  the CS module. And it's my dream -and still wishing (wanna be) well , someday I am able to publish my own  RFC number and that is how voice would be carried quickly in  an  specified medium of spectrum in the cloud.

If given  a chance for additional curriculum, I would suggest an  extension  of IS238,IS215,IS226,IS272 subjects. These could be in  the track of embedded system, data networking and encryption , Web IS, security analysis ,and implementations of "C  & S " structures. Lucky enough to have this subject offered in  the MIS curriculum, because of the the materials that were posted in  the web portal were complete and sufficient  to cope subject preferences, other resources are available in  the vast world wide web. But hey, we hardly  suffered with the difficulty of the subjects; how could you  rush the bulk of less paper works and  assignments,so cut and paste ,debug ,re-code and recompile? Well , the answer still, be "wanna" be -MIS grad studs-Amen .

The most rationalize methodology (which I'd appreciated) in  the other subjects were by revealing (publishing) our FMA's ahead of time. Thus, we were given  an  ample time to answer the tests and assignments ;hence, our maximum capabilities can  be properly measured and evaluated. For all of us who  are aspiring  a good standing  in  the MIS class -this  is   a sort of blessings to prosper .Honestly, I admire our mentors  for that teaching methodology.

Again , Kudos and More power to all MIS studs out there!

Thank you very much

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