Interesting update to the LP software :)

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Heart and Soul (The Monkees)
Topic: LP Software
So, I bumped into Shannon and Joanna from Geography during lunch today and I was telling them about my research and the problem I was having with the students who are not recognising that some constraints are binding … i.e. for example when the labour hours [...]

Trying to figure out my design!

Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: the noises of the house and the housemates
Topic: LP Software
I’m trying to figure out why I made the glass-box the way it is … that is, why I don’t show all the steps rather than ask them to click iteration for each … and for the life of me I can’t remember [...]

Excel VBA Programming

Mood:  d’oh
Now Playing: Jab Tu Muskarati Hai (Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche)
Topic: LP Software
Well, I’m still working on the Excel spreadsheet programming – taking a bit longer than I expected. Technically speaking it is finished – however, need to make it attractive looking and easy for students to enter the data and prepare the sheets [...]

Lindo and its tableau

Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Kabhi Kabhi (one of my favorite songs!)
Topic: LP Software
I’m thinking that probably for the tableau when it comes to problems with excess and artificial variables, that the way to treat this is to first convert the problem into a two-phase problem, with the new objective function …
…Just did that … found out [...]

Supervisory meeting

Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: song from Mohabbatein
Topic: LP Software
I had my supervisory meeting on Monday, it seems as if my research might go somewhere yet … we are thinking about correlating lecturer’s view of software with that of the approaches to study view of students … seems like fun … but got to unpack my computational [...]