Reflections for day2 lecture3

Impressed with the feature/functions? Maybe not. Also partially bacause I've been using it for a long time.
Well, I shall view it from a view point of a total noob.[which i may not be able to to it that well..]
I'm sure i would be impressed with the search functions of Google. Because it provides me with many information. Links to many information can be found.
Well, today, the advanced search function. It was appealing to me. Either i think that i was being retarded coz the search results were the same lump amount when i 1st searched. Imagine having to add in the extra search words so as to allow the search to be more effective due to some slang or different wordes used for the links.
I was more or less satisfied because the results were reduced to 30 after 2-3 pages of viewing the results. More or less it was quite effective. But i may have missed out some results and will have to search through the other words or an alternative word to search for more accurate results.


Discussion in forums are quite difficult, from my knowledge. Beacuse I've not started posting on the forum of my research topic yet, so i shall use my knowledge of experience in another foum.
Depending on the size of the community and the passion of the users there. No doubt that the post may become stagnant and may be deleted due to inactivity or spam or repeated same thread subjects. I still find that people are more or less willing to engage in similar kind or threads of interests. Looking through a forum always helps me to find out more about some things.
Sometimes talking to a completely new person is very difficult. But on these forums, it's easy to connect with people of the similar interests. Well, if one is doig a project and using that forum, some users would gladly welcome you into the forum and start sharing. On the other hand, Some will just ignore newbies or researchers. But on the whole, forums are a good place to share information and to discuss about subjects of interests.


Citation and bibliography is important because we have to give credit for the resources which we used for our project. Those resources are done by other researches and they should at least deserve some credit for their works. And also if some people were to read our research project, they could at least determine and check back on our basis of our point and where it came from, wether if it came from a reliable source or person.
I feel that it is a form of respect to the other party who provided/shared the resources with us. Even if it's uploaded on the net for free. It's part of their labour and pride.


PS. Today's lesson is soo dry!! ARRGH!! Well, at least i learnt and managed to understand most of the things put across and do some of the work in class... And we're all still trying to do it!!