I am spending the next two days doing the NetBeans Platform Certified Training at the TU Braunschweig in Germany with Sun’s Geertjan Wielenga and NetBeans Dream Team member Aljoscha Rittner.
If you would also like to have a training on the NetBeans Platform at your university or company, just drop Geertjan an email or leave a comment at his blog.
For more information about the Certified Training, visit the official course website.
Today, I took the ISTQB certification exam for the foundation level and some things struck me that might be of some interest for future examinees. As one has to sign a formal obligation saying that you’re not allowed to give information about exam questions, I cannot be very specific. However, here are some hints:
- The standard textbook for the exam, “Software Testing Foundations – A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam” written by Spillner and Linz, is suitable for giving a survey and it prepares you very well for the chapters “Tool support for testing”, “Fundamentals of testing” and some other. Learn them by heart!
- Still, even if you know the whole book literally by heart, there is only a not-so-good chance to pass! In order to be really good prepared, you should also learn the Syllabus, which can be downloaded from the ISTQB website. You should learn the Syllabus really good, otherwise a lot of questions are unanswerable, because they do not depend on understanding but the wording of the Syllabus.
- Some questions are really incomprehensible, even if you are well prepared. At least one question in my exam didn’t make any sense, so you better anticipate that some questions are like gambling.
- The word is that some people offer sample papers / sample exams / sample solutions on the web. If you like, use them to a impression of how questions are asked, but better be careful with the solutions–they often are wrong! So, don’t rely on things on the web, but on the Syllabus.
The examination results are send via email one week after the exam, at the latest. Of course, I’m gonna post my results as soon as I get them.
[UPDATE]
Just got my results: PASSED with 85%! 
Today, after 4 months’ work, we completed our team project software 3DScanner. The project’s goal was to capture real-world objects of any size and recreate them as 3D models in a virtual environment.
3DScanner has a lot of advantages compared to other (even commercial) products. Firstly, only one camera is needed. Any off-the-shelf digital camera can be used. It does not have to be stabilized in any way (i.e. no tripod necessary), neither does it have to be calibrated. Camera calibration takes place automatically after downloading the images to a computer.
The process is fully automatic, only silhouette images have to be created manually. We propose using GIMP to cut out the objects and and fill the background with black. Then, 3DScanner is able to create a mesh in the obj file format.
For further information, please visit the project website.
For I have only found few explanations about how to use the GLUT library for OpenGL programming with Visual Studio 2008, I’ll give it a try myself:
- Download the GLUT library from
- Unzip it
- glut.h – needs to be copied to the include/gl directory within the Microsoft SDK installation dir.
- glut32.lib – at the same place, but in the lib subdir
- glut32.dll – put this in the System32 dir.
Now, in Visual Studio create a new project as console application. Then, open the project properties, go to the Linker tab. Under Object/Library modules add
opengl32.lib glut32.lib glu32.lib
Finally, include <gl\glut.h></gl> in your source and your ready to go!
Lindsystems creates computer graphics, especially fractals based on Lindenmayer formal grammars. It can also model quite realistic plant growth.
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