Medical Emergency

Due to a medical emergency, I am unable to make it to class this morning. Please do the following:

(1) Submission for Assignment 2 will be on the 23rd December for Mdm Lydia or to me on Jan 2nd, Friday between 1030-1130 am in my office, Room 2045 in FCM.

For those submitting to me bring the following:
(a) Assignment 1 copy in psd and jpg format
(b) Assignment 2 in psd and jpg format

(2) Content for final exam:
(a) Format for Final Exam is 4 essay, pick three.
(b) Study the following topics:
- Compression techniques
- Design principles
- Colour and resolution (see Web module)
- File format
- Bitmap Characteristics

These notes can be taken from MMLS as the notes are there.

(3) I have uploaded a web module (http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~tkneo/digital_images/) in place of this class. Please go to that site for your class notes for this lecture. Concentrate particularly on the topic of colour.

(4) I will be in my office this afternoon after 2pm. For those wanting to see me then, please come to my office or make an appointment to see me via my MMU email.

(5) Result of your mid-term and assignment 1 will be uploaded tomorrow or this week. FYI, your midterm grades ranged from 2 to 13 out of 20.

(6) For those legible for a makeup midterm, please see me this afternoon at around 2pm in my office. I have a meeting at 3pm so we will either take the mid-term before my meeting or after my meeting around 430 pm. Please confirm with me again via my mmu email.

(7) If you need to see me, please make an appointment to do so between 2pm till 530 pm today or tomorrow, between 930am-1230 pm. Else, please email me at my MMU email. Or if you have any questions, please ask them in this blog.

Thank you and apologies for the cancellation but it was unavoidable.

Dr. Neo

Online notes

The notes for lectures are in the MMLS now in the schedule area. Please download and look at it for the mid term.

Content for the mid term:

Lecture notes and content on compression, file formats and resolution
Lecture notes and content on design principles
Lecture notes and content that is on the web-based module. The URL is in the previous entry in this blog.
Notes on Photoshop but need not study steps.

Format - 20 Multiple choice questions.
Venue - FOM classroom

If you have any questions, please let me know here in the entries or comments or email me to my MMU email account.

Online lecture - this week

Since I will be gone this week, please go to this website for this week's lecture.

http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~tkneo/digital_images/

Any problems with it let me know.

Normal classes in FOM building will resume next week as per schedule.

Thanks

Dr. Neo

This week and next week's class.

This week class (24/11/08) will be in XR1005 for a combined lecture with FCM. Do not worry about attendance in that lecture class.

However, next week 1/12/08, please return to the FOM classroom to continue the lecture. We will have our own lecture from December 1st, 2008 onwards. Attendance will be taken as usual.

This week is submission in your tutorial. Please submit to Mdm Lydia and update your blog. Remember, no blog entries will mean deduction in marks. I may check on your blogs while I am away. Any late submissions will not be allowed.

If you have any questions, please leave it in the comments box or email me. I will not be around from Tuesday 25/11/08 till 1st December.

So the only way we can keep in contact is through this blog or email me in MMU account.

Good luck and see you all soon.

Dr. Neo

Welcome back Computer Graphics students!

In this semester, we will be openning the doors and focussing on Bitmap images. We will be using Adobe Photoshop CS 2 as the tool to enhance your skills of computer graphics.

For the information of the course, please go to the MMLS and browse through the information.

You will be required to create 2 assignments and 6 in-class exercises. You will also be required to use the blogs that you had used in your previous computer graphics course to document your process of creation or development of your assignments.

Please note, if there is no BLOG entries, you will be severely penalised in the form of reduction of grades and marks. It may also result in you failing the course.

Therefore, please upgrade your blog entries. Any changes in blog URL, please inform me as well as your tutors. This will be your responsibility.

I have linked most of your blogs on the right of this page Please let me know if I am missing your blog, or you have changed your blog address or if I placed your blog address in the wrong faculty. Use the comment link below to let me know.

If you have any questions, please state it in the comments.

Good luck and all the best this semester!

Last but not least!

Attention students.

I have uploaded the list of students who have not submitted or did not submit the assignments for the semester. The link of the list is on the main page of the MMLS.

Please read the guidelines. If there are any mistakes or appeals, please see your group leader and myself as soon as possible.

As what I had stated in the review class on Week 13th, the following topics will be covered in the final exam.

Topics covered this semester:

Digital Technology
History of the Computer
Stages of the PC
Binary digits
Symbols
PC Components – Memory, Bus and Processor
Multimedia Features
File Formats
Internet

Notes can be found:

Class lectures
In textbook – The Mighty PC: Chapter 1-5
The Web module on Graphics (http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~tkneo/dimagemodule/)

So good luck to you all in your exam this Monday 13th October 2008 at 9 am. Please get enough rest and come into the exam fresh and alert.

Best wishes,
Dr. Ken Neo

PS: I will be putting up the tentative or possible marks for your assignments after the final exam for you to review. They will not be finalised until the final exams are full marked. So the marks will only be tentative to the finalised marks.

Attention Computer Graphics 1 students (FCM)

Submission is NOT OVER YET!

As of today I have yet to get ALL your work. Eventhough I have told everyone to submit to the specific representative of each groupk, not all of you submitted. Therefore, I have no choice but to do the following:

(a) I expect to receive ALL the assignment from ALL students by next week's class. NO EXCEPTIONS!

(b) The submission process for this class is not over yet. So please submit your work to me by next class as required.

Thank you