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I have 2 final exams this period.

First is for my OOP (object oriented programing ) aka C++ class on the 11th of June and a second exam for Developing Web apps with XML on the 17 of June.

I have been giving some though to a study plan for both Classes

• Arrange reference materials
• Search for past papers
• Make notes and review.

I have borrowed out an O'rielly text XML in a Nutshell 3rd edition from the Penrith library, for my OOP class I believe the supplied text 'Thinking in C++'  As well as the  lecture notes will be sufficient for the exam.

I have checked the UWS library past exam papers , but both classes do not have any contained in the database. This was not unexpected and is usual for the school of Information and Technology.

Now for the Study plan for XML, I will need to cover the following sections.

1. XML fundamentals

2. DTD's

3. Schemas

4. XSLT

5. XPath

6. XForms

7. XML DOM

Study Plan for C++(OOP)

1. Inheritance

2. Virtual functions

3. Constants

4. Class Declarations

5. Data-Types, pointers and references

6. STL and collections

I will have to review the code from the lecture as it will play an important role in the exam questions. 

Its that time again, I purchased these titles from www.mobipocket.com/.

Orion's Hounds (Star Trek: Titan, Book 3)

[http://www.amazon.com/Orions-Hounds-Star-Trek-Titan/dp/141650950X]

Stardust Movie Tie-in

[Neil Gaiman, http://www.amazon.com/Stardust-Movie-Tie-Teen-Gaiman/dp/0061240486/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211777921&sr=1-1]

The Sigma Protocol

[Robert Ludlum, http://www.amazon.com/Sigma-Protocol-Robert-Ludlum/dp/0312982518]

From My normal book store Dymocks Aus.

VSTO For Mere Mortals

[Kathleen McGrath,Paul Stubbs ,http://www.dymocks.com.au/ProductDetails/ProductDetail.aspx?R=9780321426710]

I have just finished some CSS mockups of the interfaces that I previously mentioned here.

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I found the Chapter 5 Forms in "The Art & Science of CSS, to be very helpful and I recommend the book to any designer and especially to code developers like me who need that extra help in designing nice looking forms.

I have been doing some design work for a university class. Creating a web application code is the fun part, well for me anyway, but I know from past expereince the value of a story-board and CSS mockups before starting to build dynamic code. (especially in ASP).

I have to that end being doing some design work, I last year used http://www.mockupscreens.com/ to story board a project web site and had positive response to the models so, here we go again. The software has some easy to use interfaces for creating models and already after a quick paper job transferring them rendered the following:

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I am very happy with the result, and still have a few more to do but it is looking good.

Update 06/05/08:

I have finished the remainder of the interfaces now just have to do the CSS mockups now