On the day back from my holidays there was a tutorial in the evening on how to complete TMA03, but it was mostly generic guidance followed by a bit of practicing of the more difficult bits of the integral calculus, which let's face it, is all of it. I sent TMA03 off at last because I just couldn't justifiably tinkering with it any more. The cut-off date was Wednesday 1st and I don't like to leave these things to the last minute in case of unexpected technical issues. It was actually marked on the cut-off date and returned to me the day afterwards, on Thursday July 2nd. I scored 100% so I think I did OK.
I also downloaded iCMA44 and made a start on it, the bits I could do anyway. Question 1 still refuses to load and hasn't been fixed. I submitted iCMA43 weeks ago but the results have been delayed. There's only one more TMA (TMA04) and iCMA (iCMA44) to go on this module now, so things are progressing quite nicely.
I've moved on from the calculus part of the module, and have started matrices. I vaguely remember studying these when doing O Level SMP Mathematics back in 1978. I knew that new-fangled maths would come in useful one day.
There's been a couple of things going on 'behind the scenes', as it were, as well. Firstly, I now have a new laptop. It's a lightweight LG gram with a 17" screen. This larger screen should make it easier for me to have two windows open at the same time, but my main reason for buying it was simply because my old laptop was literally falling apart. The hinge where the screen meets the keyboard had cracked the bezel and some electronics were exposed. It was very worrying when it appeared to be getting worse. Secondly, I've modified the backup scripts for my OU related computer files, such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and the like. The routines are now slightly more efficient at calculating the date, time and OU week number of the zipped backup files and now also include the weekday of the daily backups to make identifying and retrieving them easier. These improvements should also make the code easier to maintain and adapt in the future.
