[thefoofighter]

Coincidentally enough i am in games too and the over all perception on the course is that of what your friend experienced. Although i expect to leave here with an Honors degree and to be recognised by the state as qualified, i feel like i dont even know a tenth of what Computer games development actually is. I would not feel confident looking for a job with what i was taught, or rather not taught as happens to be the case.
I dont want to start pointing fingers and resorting to the blame game but the sheer lack of enthusiasm and interest by the lecturers on the course is shocking and i can tell you that it goes beyond the lecturers right up to the top. Rotten to the core and with an unwillingness to change by keeping the same old hat's running the course is whats killing it!

Naturally i can only speak for my experience but i hope you dont make the mistake it did

Kind regards
Foo

[Dalmighty]

Well im in the engineering department.. which is a joke... timetabled for a 2 hour project class.. spends the first 20 minutes loading up the computer.. Spend the next 20 minutes trying to get autocad loaded..for some reason it has to reinstalled everytime you log on. spend the next hour getting blinded with bull****e thats "its all part of the learning curve" ..
For some reason it seems that the lecturers think that we are lucky that they show up 20 mins late.. unprepared and unwilling to expose us to upto date relevant information..

Its seems like all the information that i needed to do my project was top secret..i was not exposed to anything relevant to complete it... and any question i asked i was told to google it..

Think the lecturers notes were wrote 20 years ago with no attempt to update them.. or expose us to current information..It doesnt help either when lecturers keep assuring you that there will be no jobs in engineering in the next decade..

Finishing off third year now and the only thing i can say is that the place should be shut down.. and do not make the mistake i did in putting up with that place..

[walrusgumble]

Originally Posted by IPushButtons

Look, any quasi public organizations (ie publicly funded and privately operated) is not going to be customer focused. Take away accountability and responsibility and you have the Irish education system where you (the customer) are expected to be oh so grateful to have the opportunity to study and receive an education even tho you are the one paying for this privilege.

LYIT's attitude seems to be one of indignation aimed at anyone to challenges there cheque cashing culture where teachers and staff clearly dont give two ****s about the level of service they provide. My advice to the staff of LYIT is if they dont care about the job there doing then, dont do it leave and allow someone with a bit of passion to take a position at the college so that they might do some good. My advice to any perspective student would be to go somewhere else not because you'll get a better standard of education or better facilities or even a better level of service, but at least you'll have a better standard of living in a big city than you will in a very small town like Letterkenny.

The points for a lot of course in the college are fairly low think about why this is.

On the positives the there are a lot of clubs and if your sports orientated then you'll really enjoy these. It's cheep to live here and the facilities at least the ones i have been exposed to are good.

If you are from Sligo, Midlands, Galway, Dundalk, Dublin and further South, the chances are you can do any of the courses in those areas rather than track up to the other side of the country, to do them. That is why the points are low in LYIT! Donegal after 4-5 years is not a barrel of laughs

Can't see what is so great about being in a class of 150/200 and barely knowing any of the students , in order to get lecture notes etc (maybe Moodle ended those days) and getting damn all chance to speak to the lecturers.

Granted Letterkenny is a small town. But for many, so long as they have money and like booze, the town more than caters for them. You have your hospital , gyms and grocery stores and cinema, (sea side a few miles away) what else does a student need? Luxury apartments or crappy apartments costing €400-500? Hardly.

My experience, our lectures,(not IT, construction or engineering) bar maybe one , were brilliant and approachable and knew their stuff. We had access to all the books and journals we needed. It was up to you then to do the work.

[walrusgumble]

Originally Posted by CJC999

I was there was back in 88 on a two year NCEA course. I hated the place, it was just a continuation of secondary school without the uniform. We had a full timetable every single day and up until 4pm on Friday, no free classes anywhere. You were given a pile of 'homework' and i soon got bored. I done ok in my first year exams but in 2nd year i rarely went in in the afternoon, done none of the course work and had more or less left by march but done the exams in the summer anyway. Naturally i failed spectacularly, some papers i just re-wrote the questions and asked the persons who would be marking random unrelated questions and drew them little pictures...just to kill the time until i could get the hell out of there.

My experience is completely unrelated to what one can expect in the college now but i hated the place with a passion.

Should you have been bothered going to College? You realise that it is not all fun and games?

[eth0]

Originally Posted by walrusgumble

Should you have been bothered going to College? You realise that it is not all fun and games?

Jaysus you actually have to do work thats shocking I thought it was suffficient to spend the day on Facebook and marvelling at the latest iPad and blathering shoite about how games written in JavaScript/HTML5 are taking over and how in a few years 100% of all games will be made this way.

[gooch2k9]

Originally Posted by eth0

Jaysus you actually have to do work thats shocking I thought it was suffficient to spend the day on Facebook and marvelling at the latest iPad and blathering shoite about how games written in JavaScript/HTML5 are taking over and how in a few years 100% of all games will be made this way.

Thats all you did!

[eth0]

Originally Posted by gooch2k9

Thats all you did!

Didn't even bother sure pandaboard was doing enough o that on my behalf