Post 6: CG1413 - My views

In this post, I will be explaining how I have changed throughout the semester and how these changes are related to CG1413.


At the start of the semester, I initially felt that this module was not important when reading the description. However, I had learnt this was not so, especially during the numerous projects where we had to work in teams to complete specified goals: CG1102 asked us to implement codes, CG1108 required us to design and build a robot while CG1413 had a problem-solving presentation.

I learnt of the various ways to help manage team projects, through the use of timetables and idea-sharing applications/websites such as Etherpad. These are important lessons to me since I have always had a bad habit of forgetting deadlines and these reminders helped me to focus and schedule my work better. In the future, working in teams will be much easier with these applications.

Acting as the leader for the CG1413 project, I learnt that the leader position is vital to the team. It is from this experience that I found that I am lacking in leadership skills such as people and time management to help encourage the members to work towards the goal. This is one area that I have to improve on in any future projects since this will affect the moral of the team and I would first have to improve on my own time management skills before focusing on a group setting.

I also learnt that various body gestures might be misunderstood by others. While I did know our gestures can have multiple meanings, it was only after watching the various presentations and meeting videos that I realised that I did numerous small gestures that distract or can cause misunderstandings to the viewers. This is one thing that I kept in mind for all future presentations and it can be seen when comparing the first oral presentation to the second, where I tried to keep in mind not to have conflicts between my gestures and my information.

Overall, I think I have improved on my communication skills throughout the semester. I was mainly ignorant of the various small details towards communication and had a slightly poor working attitude. It was through the various experiences of multiple projects that I have improved on these negative aspects. However, there is still much to learn and put into practise.