Showing posts with label OSD 600 Lab Tab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OSD 600 Lab Tab. Show all posts

Friday, October 31, 2008

Dive into Mozilla Modifying Firefox Lab

This lab felt like another "Search and Destroy" task. Well...not really "destroy", but change.

I found the searching to be the more difficult part of this lab as we're to look for some old changes that's different from the current MXR. I kind of wished the MXR kept multiple version so we can actually look up stuff in the version we want. But of course, that's asking for too much as there are sooooooo many code that it'll be a hassle to keep different versions for all the code.

After the "target" has been found, the code wasn't hard to change, as it is pretty much given in the lab.

Thoughts about Labs
Labs are very helpful for computer courses as they give you the hands on experience with doing the actual work. However, in my case in this course, I find the labs a little annoying to do since they don't really contribute too much to what I have to do in the course. I'd wish the labs aren't mandatory and are just counted as bonus marks or some how incorporate into our marks to help lighten the mark weight of our other work.
I have nothing against the labs in this course. They're great for helping us understand Mozilla. But when we have to do something that's not really helping with what we're suppose to do, it does get annoying at times.