FIT2014

In my 4 years at this University so far, FIT2014 stands out as one of the best units in terms of both content and teaching. When I first started it I thought it was a bunch of baloney after we were told we'd be effectively learning about strings for 12 weeks. When I finished it though, god I started to miss it quickly. I even ended up spending a weekend building a better (and also open source) Turing machine simulator because I wasn't a fan of Tuatara. You can find that at tursim.lachlanmacphee.com

Initial 6 weeks of content were quite complex + assessments were poorly structured. Was feeling quite overwhelmed. However, everything started coming together with the introduction of Turing Machines which were a lot of fun to play around with. Exam was fairly challenging, definitely not a unit you can cruise through. Also, very proof heavy. Which can be a pro or con depending on your strengths and weaknesses. Content was a little bit too abstract for my personal interests. However, I can still see its application and importance. Also the requirement of bash CLI knowledge was very strange and an outright hindrance to some less familiar students.

i cant say fit2014 is a easy unit to get pass but indeed it is really hard for those student poor at the delivering messages or context on actual content or understanding knowlegde and trying to convert into their own language. As a international student, for me , it is very hard because my first language is not English I am struggling at the really start of the unit but afer all, i pass this unit with an overall score 74/100 which is really good.

The content in this unit initially was both quite difficult and poorly taught. This unit introduces Linux poorly. The first assignment in Linux was highly difficult and poorly explained. However, the content and teaching did improve; I enjoyed many of the proofs and lemmas. Overall the unit is quite challenging but interesting also.