Report of Week 1

The first week of the second semester has started and the feeling of being back is pretty exhilarating in itself but to be honest I wouldn’t have minded a few more days off.
This semester includes a module ‘Personal Development for Computing’ which specializes to further develop our personality as computer students and also as general human beings. I think this subject will spice up this semester and add diversity to the course of study due to its uniqueness in course material.
 The first lecture was basically about the introductory part on what we will be doing and trying to achieve for the rest of semester for this particular subject.
In the tutorial, we were given an exciting task to discuss, what abilities a graduate should have to develop better applications and programs. The points given had to be analyzed and the one we thought important had to be presented in front of the class in our workshop.
Going through the 17 points put forth for discussion, I felt that the ability to demonstrate computational thinking and its relevance to everyday life, including redundancy and the diversity for developing safe and critical system is a must for a graduate.
In the past decade alone electronic technologies have come a long way, in the form of tablets and smart phones. These advanced technologies have been able to change the everyday lives of millions of people around the world. So, a graduate must be able to develop applications as per the needs and demands avoiding redundancy and creating diversity and uniqueness.
In the lab session, few students had the opportunity to discuss the point they thought were important and showcase their thoughts and opinions on the particular matter. I did not get my chance to go forward on this occasion but I am looking forward for to the day I will it. 
The presentations given were all quite good. It seemed everyone had done their homework and practiced on the topic they had chosen. However I did feel some examples given were a bit irrelevant as they were pretty far-fetched.If I was given the opportunity I would have been more precise on the way I presented
To summarize, first week of this second semester has been pretty awesome.