Hi to all!
No we haven't all been abducted by aliens or started to eat Swiss cheese.
The course sort of takes over your life and having done a 30 point course last year this 60 point course keeps you on your toes.
There have been a number of complaints mostly about mistakes occurring with computerised online ongoing tests (iCMA's) and TMA's (Tutor Marked Assignments) and that it seems that the course team are writing the course up as they go along or so it seems.
You can't just sit back and relax with this course and time management is very important. There is a combination of online material and printed word and use of the senseboard, which looks like a printed circuit.
Its all good fun so dont be put off in any way.
Looking at later programming skills you will acquire using sense and the senseboard looks quite daunting but working through the exercises it all becomes clear and absolute beginners who were cautious about their ability to cope are now more confident in their learning abilities.
I'm finding the course challenging not in its intellectual sense but in the material you have to wade through and undertstand in a set timescale.
All in all and so far its very enjoyable and one I would recommend to everybody.
Cheers
-rob