Sunday, April 18, 2010

The Tools

Mostly in other course aside from FCM, we need to study a lot and need to memorize many things. Especially on the day of the final exam.

But we in the Faculty of Creative Multimedia do not need a lot of books to study. We really need to have skills in doing our assignments which have more marks than the final exam. We need to face computers rather than papers since a lot of our assignments need to be done by using softwares.

Apart from skills, we need a powerful and expensive hardware in order to get our assignments to be done easily. This is because the softwares that we use is quite heavy and might cause a PC to crash if it's not compatible enough with the hardware. For example, we need to render a 3D model which might take some hours to be done if the processor and the graphic card is not powerful enough. It might even crashed halfway through the rendering process.


The softwares like Adobe and Autodesk products is what we mostly used in the faculty. Those were also a kind of expensive softwares and quite heavy for a certain computer to handle if it's not up-to-date. Because of the cost, many students find an alternative way by using a pirated software. Well, no software means no work will done; no work done, means no marks received which equals to fail.

To sum it up, FCM students need quite a lot of money to finish up all the assignments. Don't you agree?

6 comments:

ilif said...

I have never in my life buy a original software (so not to be proud of -_- ), but of course the only reason to it is money. Besides, the mentality of 'why paid for something when you can get it for free' really contribute to the factor.

No money no talk? Nevermind, I can download.

Ruslan Hariz said...

haha. same with me as well. but i think skills are more important than others. we must create our own portfolio because its very important and very usefull to get a job after graduate.

amenfeisal said...

I never buy the original software but still have to spent much money for completing the assignment given in matter of printing,creating a handmake product, spent for any trip arranged by each course, buy the hardware or tools like graphic card,camera and any tools that required in order to finish our assignment.

there are too many things to consider rather then original software,thats why i'm not using original software. So what we can say is our faculty (FCM) really need to spend much money not only for the fees but many more need to be concerned.

syra said...
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Hazim Abd Halim said...

Money?? Yeah FCM is a place to spend your money for assignment and tools like you spend your money for shopping...but this is reality that we need to sacrifice during our studies year, I don't mind to but original software but it so expensive..God , I find alternative way to get software and it's piracy

Sorry Autodesk and Sorry Adobe...

Fadhil said...

Well... Original or pirated, I agree that the most important thing is the skills. Even if we had all the expensive hardwares and the original softwares, but without our own skills to apply into it, it is useless. To have a very good skills is the most expensive thing that a student of FCM should have.