Short Semester 6

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Generally, we have a semester of 21 to 23 weeks, but this semester contains only 8 weeks, 6 weeks out of 8 weeks are lectures. The rest of the 2 weeks are dedicated to revision and exams. I chose around 4 subjects in this semester.

I chose digital photography as a humanities subject. It was filled with lectures with presentations and photo descriptions, along with practicals of photoshoots during the weekends. It was quite an interesting subject and I was able to understand the basics of photography skills and how to take a photograph :P.

Next, I chose Formal Methods in Software Engineering, a subject I loved the most in this semester. It explains formally specifying systems, especially safety-critical systems, and also does formal analysis (proving the specification) for the validity of the system.

Then the next choice was Human Computer Interaction; it covers how to define a UI that ensures better user experience. It is also quite an interesting subject.

With these three interesting subjects, I also took research and report writing and professional practice which are compulsory for us.

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