Student Views and Reviews: Sun on Campus

Carlitos is a student at the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, UNICEN, Tandil, and a member of the OSUM community.  He has written a very thorough blog -- in English and Spanish -- recounting his experience using the NetBeans profiler as part of a project at his University.  

Carlitos thoroughly details his project and the goals in the blog, but in summary, it was a project built with NetBeans IDE with a GA framework that was designed and implemented to provide the settings to test the approach.  He used MySQL as a database engine and modeled objects related to the context of the problem, finally testing the desktop application in swing.

Carlitos writes that the development process was great because he saved the testing to the very end.  Initially, Carlitos reports, "everything seemed to go well, the program responded correctly for small projects...but the goal was to support larger projects, so I started testing with the PSPLIB...and as expected, something went wrong." 

The initial problem with larger projects was that the VM ran out of memory, so he increased the memory, which Carlitos discovered just meant "it takes longer to run out of memory." After doing some profiling and getting some sleep, Carlitos returned to the project and realized he had left an empty try/catch block -- which was the only error with no treatment.  He happily reported that after correcting the error "everything worked wonderful." 

I want to thank Carlitos for going to such great lengths to describe his project, which really sounded like a great learning process. I encourage everyone else to continue to blog about your student experiences -- you never know how it may help someone else, and often you will find that it helps you learn just by describing the process.  

Please check out Carlitos' blog for all the details on his project, and e-mail links to your blogs at maijaliisa[dot]burkert[@]sun[dot]com, or by dropping it on my OSUM page.