COMP715/815GB:2015 Joshua


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 * Planned Meeting Times:
 * Wednesday 8:30-9:30pm


 * Group leader:
 * Joshua
 * Students:
 * Seth
 * Taylor
 * Weston

Week of Sept 14th
Meeting Time Met 9/16 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Seth, Weston

Agenda Introductions, Lab 1 Review and Continuation

Discussion We discussed the class in general and what we expect to get from it and how it will go. We revied last weeks lab and worked on the followup of creating a function for doing the fibonacci sequence. We then reviewed this weeks lab, and went into the next part of decrypting the message. Prof. Jonas assisted us in augmenting the shift to reverse the process and decrypt, the encrypted message. Finally, we discussed the text, getting it, and the reading.

Week of Sept 21st
Meeting Time Met 9/23 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Taylor, Seth

Agenda: Lab 3 Review Locks and Decrypting and Homework 1 discussion

Discussion We discussed general thoughts about locks and the differences with lock picking and locks bumping. We reviewed the lab assignment and the decrypt. We discussed the limitations and policies of this study group, and what is best to steer clear of and what is free game to work on together. We ended by discussing computer malware and virus removal and what tools we each prefer to use, in reference to homework question #4.

Week of Sept 28th
Meeting Time Met 9/30 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Weston

Agenda: Homework 1 Review and Lab Week 5 Review

Discussion We went over how each of us implemented the lab section of homework #1, and shared our thoughts about the discussion questions. Lab Week 5 discussed how we're removing the HTML calls from the main encrypt and decrypt functions and create new functions that include the HTML calls and pass them to the main functions.

Talked about juggling classes and homework while working fulltime.

Week of Oct 5th
Meeting Time Met 10/7 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Weston, Seth, Taylor

Agenda: Week 5 Catchup, Lecture and Lab Week 6 Review

Discussion We went over week 5's lecture as two of our members missed that class as well as the lab for week 5 and the purpose for the changes. We discussed Lab week 6 and the outcomes. Including: Stream vs Block Cyphers and their strengths and weaknesses. We went over the weeks readings regarding malware. We ended with a broad discussion of the homework and our general thoughts about the discussion questions.

Week of Oct 12th
Meeting Time 10/14 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Seth, Weston

Agenda: Homework 2 review, Study for Midterm Exam

Discussion We went over Lab week 7 and our thoughts, to make sure we fully understood the task. We discussed homework 2 question number 2 and our approach, and as well as the formal answer sheet. We also discussed how we solved the code segments and what type of loops we used as well as an appending issue with our return values. Midterm review- we talked about the expectations and what we need prepare for, as well as the possibility of analyzing code and our comfort level. We talked about prep and how we will use the note cards. We feel confident with material and will review how it went next week.

Week of 19th
Meeting Time 10/21 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Weston

Agenda: Midterm review and Homework 3 discussion

Discussion We went over the Midterm exam and what we thought about the questions and how we figured out certain stuff and how we answered things differently. We then briefly talked about our progress 3rd homework and how it's going. We wrapped up with an outlook of what's to come in the class, and how to get ready for it.

Week of Oct 26th
Meeting Time 10/28 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Weston, Seth

Agenda: Homework 2 Review and Homework 3 discussion

Discussion We went over the answers from Homework 2 and how we each tried to calculate the number of lock attempts, as well as how we each implemented the coding portion. Then we transitioned into Homework 3 and to check up on how we're all progressing and if there are any difficulties. We finished up with our thoughts about the midterm and how it went.

Week of 2nd
Meeting Time 11/4 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Seth

Agenda: Homework 3 Review and Homework 4 Discussion

Discussion We went over our coding implementation for Homework, then discussed how we did on the Midterms and what to takeaway for the final. After that we discussed Lab Week 9 and how it prepped us for Homework 4 and how we're going to figure out the passwords. We wrapped up with an introduction about the Projects, potentials groups, and how to start and then break up the work.

Week of 9th
Meeting Time No Meeting 11/11 - UNH Holiday

Week of Nov 16th
Meeting Time 11/18 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Seth, Weston

Agenda: Homework 4 Review, Homework 5 Discussion, Project Topics

Discussion We started by discussing our project topics, the background information behind them, and why we picked them. Seth and Weston coordinated on their project and the division of labor. We then transitioned into Homework 4 reviews, and if we were able to crack our router passwords, and how our password cracking went and which regular expressions we tried. We then moved on to a discussion on homework 5 and how best to attack the lab section. We finished with talking about our plans for the holiday.

Week of Nov 23rd
Meeting Time No Meeting 11/25 - UNH Holiday

Week of Nov 30th
Meeting Time 12/2 at 8:30pm

Attendees Josh, Seth, Weston

Agenda: Homework 5 LAB Review, Project Checkin, and Final Exam prep

Discussion We talked about the Lab assignment, how its in current events, and how its security levels ties into our project topics. We went over how we cracked the Lab portion of homework 5. We finished with discussing what we expect from the Final Exam and if there will be any difference from the Midterm. We ended early due to two lab members (one being myself) feeling under the weather tonight.

Week of Dec 7th
Meeting Time 12/9 8:30pm

Attendees Josh

Agenda: Final Exam Review, Project Prep and Discussion

Discussion We ended up not meeting tonight as it was the Final and group members ended up finishing at different times, and as its the end of the semester there's not a lot left to discuss or study.

Overall the group was a success, we were able to review material we didn't get, go over the in class labs, ask questions about the others, vent about things we didn't like, and better prepare ourselves for the homework.