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Former Bsc in Software Dev student here (graduated in 2007). Just wondering what the course content is like now?
When I was there it was like so:
Two year Cert in Computing
• Java basics (loops, if statements etc.)
• VB6 (same stuff as in Java)
• Web Development
• Databases
• Digital Media
• Communications
• Computer Applications
• Maths
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Java Programming
• Networks
Add on degree;
• Graphic User Interfaces
• Software Engineering
• Databases
• Networks
• Maths
• Object Oriented Programming
• Project
Final year Hons degree;
• Artificial Intelligence
• Software Component Engineering
• Digital Image Processing
• Object Oriented Databases
• Project Management
• Software Quality Management
• Project in Java
• Networks & Distributed Systems
• Work Experience
It's probably changed around a fair bit? Is there much .NET in the course now?There was very little when I was there, I actually ended up working in .NET after despite not writing a line of it in college
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Big thanks to JFlah who helped us out with our usability testing today. When we finally got going!:D
Protip: Some of the lab printers have been contracted out to the IBS print booth to refill now, takes a little bit longer to get them refilled now than when the technicians used to do it.Former Bsc in Software Dev student here (graduated in 2007). Just wondering what the course content is like now?
It's probably changed around a fair bit? Is there much .NET in the course now?There was very little when I was there, I actually ended up working in .NET after despite not writing a line of it in college
Hey lukin, 3rd year SWdev student here. The majority of the course is the same.
There is a focus on OOP right from first year, through Java. A lot of the modules are probably just retitled i.e. Graphical User Interfaces => Human Computer Interaction etc.
Very little VB.net, we did our 2nd year project in it, just a simple add/amend/delete app.
.NET => we do 2 modules in 3rd year through C#.net and it's not that different from Java, although not much emphasis has really been placed on the framework really. There is a lot to take in and a lot of overhead with the tools available through VS2010/TFS, you could spend a nice bit of time just concentrating on them alone.
The course is a straight 3 year degree now followed by a one year addon for the honours. Any tips for a prospective future developer? Any advice regarding what I should maybe concentrate on learning in my own time? Feel free to pm me if you want.0 -
Was my pleasure , Thanks for the coffeesBig thanks to JFlah who helped us out with our usability testing today. When we finally got going!:D
Protip: Some of the lab printers have been contracted out to the IBS print booth to refill now, takes a little bit longer to get them refilled now than when the technicians used to do it.
Hey lukin, 3rd year SWdev student here. The majority of the course is the same.
There is a focus on OOP right from first year, through Java. A lot of the modules are probably just retitled i.e. Graphical User Interfaces => Human Computer Interaction etc.
Very little VB.net, we did our 2nd year project in it, just a simple add/amend/delete app.
.NET => we do 2 modules in 3rd year through C#.net and it's not that different from Java, although not much emphasis has really been placed on the framework really. There is a lot to take in and a lot of overhead with the tools available through VS2010/TFS, you could spend a nice bit of time just concentrating on them alone.
The course is a straight 3 year degree now followed by a one year addon for the honours. Any tips for a prospective future developer? Any advice regarding what I should maybe concentrate on learning in my own time? Feel free to pm me if you want. 0 -
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Dear God ...... I have Java coming out my eyeballs!!!
No word of a lie but I'm dreaming in Java. Dead serious. I'm having if and else dreams.
Concentrate on validation guys. 90% of your time will be taken up on this. The PPS number has already been given on group's A question so anything from date of birth to ISBN to the unimaginable palidrome could surface. Best of luck guys
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No word of a lie but I'm dreaming in Java. Dead serious. I'm having if and else dreams.
Concentrate on validation guys. 90% of your time will be taken up on this. The PPS number has already been given on group's A question so anything from date of birth to ISBN to the unimaginable palidrome could surface. Best of luck guys
Palindrome !!! NOOooooooooooooooo.... although if you do get a palindrome check out StringBuffer method helps to read strings backwards!0 -
No word of a lie but I'm dreaming in Java. Dead serious. I'm having if and else dreams.
Concentrate on validation guys. 90% of your time will be taken up on this. The PPS number has already been given on group's A question so anything from date of birth to ISBN to the unimaginable palidrome could surface. Best of luck guys
Not come across any Palindrome questions unless Im missing something.
We had a question where we had to generate 20 random numbers, then the users had to guess 20 times, the output display had to show the 20 random numbersm, the 20 user numbers, how many times the user matched the random numbers and finally you had to show whether or not you had ESP abilities (if you got so many matches correct you had ESP abilities). Hard out but I gave it a fair aul bash and now I can relax and concentrate on the lovely 3 exams for next week. WOHOO.
I imagine ye will get a question based on the animal one from last year.0 -
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lads, these computer courses sound down right difficult, are their many left in your classes from what had started with you guys?
Fair play for the hard-work btw, I'm reading your messages here going :eek: 'ah what are they doing in these courses like!'
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lads, these computer courses sound down right difficult, are their many left in your classes from what had started with you guys?
Fair play for the hard-work btw, I'm reading your messages here going :eek: 'ah what are they doing in these courses like!'
In my particular group only one person has left. I think a few have failed maths and just basic last semester and are finding Java difficult alright. Saw a couple of fairly empty monitors when I was leaving the CA.
It's only difficult if you don't put the work in. I'm a (very)mature student with kids and all the responsibilities of home life and I also work my ass off. Spent all week last week 12 hour days studying Java and other subjects and am doing well. I guess when you're older, you are a lot more focused. I really want a good career out of this and have only one chance to do it.
I think everyone should go out and work for 10 years on a building site or general operative in a company after school and then go back to college. It would make a lot of people far more focused in what they want to do in their lives 0 -
I imagine ye will get a question based on the animal one from last year.
I wonder would JB be that predictable in his questions? PPS number I guess is similar to tnumber only that the validation for the letters are opposite. The random number question was similar enough to the dices question last year. Group B's CA isn't until Friday so I guess they are lucky at least we can rule out the random, tnumber/pps validation. They may get a scanner I suppose with user defined methods. 0 -
I guess when you're older, you are a lot more focused. I really want a good career out of this and have only one chance to do it.
I think everyone should go out and work for 10 years on a building site or general operative in a company after school and then go back to college. It would make a lot of people far more focused in what they want to do in their lives
Good point. Of the 7 left in 3rd year SW 4 of us are 25yo+0 -
In my particular group only one person has left. I think a few have failed maths and just basic last semester and are finding Java difficult alright. Saw a couple of fairly empty monitors when I was leaving the CA.
It's only difficult if you don't put the work in. I'm a (very)mature student with kids and all the responsibilities of home life and I also work my ass off. Spent all week last week 12 hour days studying Java and other subjects and am doing well. I guess when you're older, you are a lot more focused. I really want a good career out of this and have only one chance to do it.
I think everyone should go out and work for 10 years on a building site or general operative in a company after school and then go back to college. It would make a lot of people far more focused in what they want to do in their lives
Same as myself very mature with all the responsibilities and i am working my ass off as seems to be the case with all the mature students.I don,t think a lot of the youngsters realise the opportunity they have ... . Regarding drop outs we are missing 2 totally gone 2 or 3 hanging on and a few more strugglers that possibly are on the wrong course. I reckon we,ll have 10 - 12 back next semester , maths and programming main source of difficulty and then some laziness by a few in the "easier" subjects. I,m surprised by the failures in maths by younger students, as someone who has,nt done maths in a LONG time I found Maths fairly simple and of a basic enough standard. Quite a few of the people who struggled are straight out of Leaving Cert and would have just done Maths ..... !!!!0 -
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Just an ancient programming humour site:Definition:
program, n.: A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.
And the always excellent xkcd
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Boom 80% in Digital Imaging, delighted but feck all time to relax. Exam today, exam tomorrow, exam next week, 2 projects to work on over easter and 2 more exams when we get back, followed by the 3 final exams.
I'm fairly fecked for the aul web design, It seems a bit retarded that you are expected to try and remember the various bits of code, not like when you're designing a website that you will only be using code from memory.
We have'nt got our Digital Imaging results back yet , am hopeful though The aul workload is getting a little ridiculous alright now!! I,m same with Web Design in the Lab or at home have no problem getting pages to look identical to examples with minimal reference to notes ,but to remember every tag from memory!!! OUCH 0 -
We have'nt got our Digital Imaging results back yet , am hopeful though The aul workload is getting a little ridiculous alright now!! I,m same with Web Design in the Lab or at home have no problem getting pages to look identical to examples with minimal reference to notes ,but to remember every tag from memory!!! OUCH
The results for group C/D are up on the X-Drive under Grainne Stack (if that applies to you), I'm in the same boat as yourself with the web design, trying to study this tonight is just tedious, I just can't be fecked.0 -
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Funnily enough I found Web Design hard enough, even though Java is considered harder I have the full 35% in the bag.
I find it hard to judge the margin sizes, boarders etc. from the print off word document. I got it somewhat ok, not 100% though. Couldn't shift the body border even though I was adjusting the margins. It was very frustrating.
Was one hell of a tough week. Just relaxing this evening which is soooo good 0 -
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Doing this digital imaging assigment feels like an out of body experiene at this stage, bloody brainstorming is just beyond tedious . Was gonna do the movie poster option but I don't see how I could make my brainstorming any different from the first assigment and this American Football one i'm finding quite hard to research. Very hard tryign to find any posters that I can include in my research
Similar feelings to you , am doing the movie option but gotta say the creative juices are completely not flowing ..... was hoping to plough through it fairly quickly but .... looking bad:(
Finding the website hard to get to grips with too , have a bit done but frankly it looks ~****E~
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Im not gonna worry too much on Digital Imaging as I don't need much to pass but still want to do as well as possible, I'm dreading the web design, especially as the project itself is pretty rubbish. Like they say we are meant to include a page on special offers but on the website itself there are feck all special offers, there's very little info to go on to build the site.
Yeah, the website is killing me atm. Mine is slowly looking like the original one, I might as well copy the code!
We're given all the images of the original site, it's only a matter of placing the images in different locations around the page and giving the site a different theme. How many people will have the same theme judging from the logo and the colour of the van?
I would have rathered our own site tbh.
Digital Imaging is much the same. As I chose a movie poster for the first ca, this one is the exact same. I'm just changing the genre.
How's the rest of ye doing?0 -
Yeah, the website is killing me atm. Mine is slowly looking like the original one, I might as well copy the code!
We're given all the images of the original site, it's only a matter of placing the images in different locations around the page and giving the site a different theme. How many people will have the same theme judging from the logo and the colour of the van?
I would have rathered our own site tbh.
Digital Imaging is much the same. As I chose a movie poster for the first ca, this one is the exact same. I'm just changing the genre.
How's the rest of ye doing?
Yup a lot of repetiton coming up in the website , think nearly everyone will have the same color scheme for sure! Digital Imaging assignment is so close to the 1st one that it seems nearly pointless to be honest we could have been given something more interesting/challenging at this stage have the bulk of my photoshop stuff finished loads of time to add to research book then , cart before the horse but its worked well so far 0 -
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