Saturday, April 14, 2007

The second book is more specific

The second book was published more specific memabahas about Component (called PHPNuke Module) some powerful components that are not contained in the standard package Mambo discussed thoroughly.

Make a book to be quite an impressive experience. far more difficult than making an article for a magazine or newspaper. far longer than write a paper; o)

mengigat if the process .. hm many steps that must be passed. publishers only accept manuscripts that interesting. not in the market (if there is already have to have an advantage over other books), can be directly used by readers. Another step is to wait a long queue of printing. booked this will take about nine months since the script paid until later in the bookstore.

The struggle has not quite got here. in front had to wait a few ideas to make a more 'difficult'. TEAMS which may involve my form ... pray for ya ......

Mambo CMS Book was Released

Being a writer of books became my desire since the last three years. maybe because I was a big environment of academia, many involved in the discussions about IT in campus organizations, to build a computer club (forum-dcc@yahoogorups.com), worked at several national companies in the last part of the EDP and became a lecturer at several universities IT.

This desire is finally a reality after I get the opportunity from one of the largest book publishers in jakarta. Year 2003 when it was no big change in the technique of making website. from static to dynamic, from techniques that require programming expertise into easy-to-use-only with a few clicks and a bit of technical knowledge, websites can already formed and terpublish on the internet.

happened at that time there has been no book that discusses the Mambo CMS and there are opportunities from the publisher to make this a reality. finally after a long penance, the first book published and can be found at the nearest tokobuku Gramedia. The next challenge to make the books 2, 3 etc ...

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Assessing Semester Exams

As a lecturer, it is a headache enough when checking students' semester examination. many methods that are usually used to determine the final value of the student subjects. lecturer at the initial meeting usually offer a learning contract in the form of assessment components attendance, assignments, mid semester and final exams. There are only judging from the mid and final exam without a care of his attendance. There is also the rate of major tasks, responses, etc. Lab exam.
so can any real value there that students take an average distribution. This means that in a class taken the lowest and highest values and then take the benchmarks with the lowest E value and the highest value of A. This model is less favored by students. Happen what ever there must be a valuable error. value of the benchmark model numbers 000-100 are usually preferred.
there are no standard benchmarks are the same perception of all the lecturers to give a rating. eg lecturer lecturer A and B may give a different value on a single exam students. Anyone have different experiences ...?