ACCEPTED into Georgia Tech's OMS Cybersecurity!

[armstrongsubero]

@jsd I dont know if it can still help you but it might help someone. The best way to learn ladder logic for PLCs is to buy some old CD4000 ICs and a 9 volt battery if you dont have a bench power supply, and play around with logic circuits for a few weeks.

Jameco Electronics has a valuepro CD4000 kit thats ideal for that purpose.

After that things like VHDL, Verilog and Ladder Logic will seem more intuitive and less abstract. Thats my experience anyway.

Keep up the good work!

[bugfree]

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[jsd]

@armstrongsubero thanks for the tip, but unfortunately the project is due Ina few days so I can't really make use of it. I made a ton of progress today though. I don't think there will be much more Ladder Logic coming up in the course either. But I appreciate the thought!

@bugfree Introduction to Cyber-Physical Systems Security. Think along the lines of smartgrids, factories, plants etc.

[jsd]

80% on my midterm, haha... good enough for me.

I've started the third project now and I'm about to just start shooting for a C in the course to ensure my employer grants me tuition reimbursement. I'm getting sick of trying to parse the TA's instructions and troubleshooting up their faulty VMs for 3 days before i can get to work on the actual projects within the VM. This has been the case with the last two projects. I think I probably got a mid-B on project 2, so hopefully i get that score back soon to confirm. If that is the case, even if i blow projects 3 and 4, i can get a decent grade on an easy paper presentation topic, then get about 80% on my final, and I'll still have a C in the course.

The disorganization of this course's projects has been very disappointing, and the TAs in the course all contradict each other.

The prof's lectures are very well produced, at least?

[bjcheung77]

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80% on my midterm, haha... good enough for me.

The disorganization of this course's projects has been very disappointing, and the TAs in the course all contradict each other.

The prof's lectures are very well produced, at least?

That's great progress! Wow, is it just this course that the TA's are contradicting each other? That's great about the lectures, I would hope other courses within their program would be produced equally as well. Three Cheers! JSD, keep on trucking along...

Oh, I have one question, I forget... are you doing this directly through Georgia Tech, or are you doing the Edx Partnership program, or is this the same thing? Sorry, I can't remember...

[jsd]

Got project 2 back, 87% which is more than I was expecting, and the TAs said there was possibly a problem with the script they used to test out programs so they're going to re-run everything to verify over the next week or so... so there's a slight possibility that my grade is even higher.

I also submitted project 3, after a lot of banging my head against a wall.

@bjcheung77: the two courses I took last term were nothing like this as far as disorganized projects and TAs. I think this course is just an outlier (hopefully).

This program is provided through their edX partnership, but I'm not really sure what the extent of that partnership is other than our lectures are hosted on the edx platform. there's not a separate version of the program online.

[gqbao01]

How are you overcoming the challenge of students who has never coded in C or Python or Java since most of the assignments requires coding in those language? Does the TA give enough hints/tips or do you just find a lot of help from some of the class forum? That is my only worry is the coding part of the assignments since I have never coded in those language before.

[jsd]

How are you overcoming the challenge of students who has never coded in C or Python or Java since most of the assignments requires coding in those language? Does the TA give enough hints/tips or do you just find a lot of help from some of the class forum? That is my only worry is the coding part of the assignments since I have never coded in those language before.

Apologies, just now seeing this.

I know a little bit of basic Python, which helped a bit in the IIS courses. TAs do't give much guidance to be honest, you're on your own mostly. Lot's of self-studying and googling like crazy for different ways to do things and adapting them for the project purposes. If you know any other languages you can probably apply the knowledge of that language and brush up on the syntax of the new languages you'll be using, but you're definitely fighting an uphill battle coming in without a strong CS background.

[Imbanewbie]

How are you overcoming the challenge of students who has never coded in C or Python or Java since most of the assignments requires coding in those language? Does the TA give enough hints/tips or do you just find a lot of help from some of the class forum? That is my only worry is the coding part of the assignments since I have never coded in those language before.

Apologies, just now seeing this.

I know a little bit of basic Python, which helped a bit in the IIS courses. TAs do't give much guidance to be honest, you're on your own mostly. Lot's of self-studying and googling like crazy for different ways to do things and adapting them for the project purposes. If you know any other languages you can probably apply the knowledge of that language and brush up on the syntax of the new languages you'll be using, but you're definitely fighting an uphill battle coming in without a strong CS background.

Do you know which website provide some understand programming python or Java or R? I may start my first cyber class next year. I want to review some basic understanding.

[jsd]

codecademy.com or any of the free MOOC sites like edX or udacity, etc