DCU Computer Applications!! Any1 doing it?

StickyMcGinty · 23-08-2004 2:31pm

count me in...

Smellyirishman · 23-08-2004 2:44pm

lol we have been through this!, we all 6 something and skinny!!

im 6,1 , skinny, will have a leather jacket on, got a thingy on my chin made of hair, you know one of those things,and will be standing beside black wizard!

But shouting out the nicks could be more fun

"I there a smelly irish man here?" then the fists come flying (but they are fat nerd fists and so we are cushioned :rolleyes: )

Anyway, Im Andy , Wizard is Dara.

Maybe a game night before we go to DCU?

What do redbrick do exactly, seems that they have a LOAD of members but only a handfull do anything other than chat in Hey! or whatever its called.

You gotta come back to my house after first day and set me up linux style!

Whats ages are people too?? im 17 dara`s 18, Sar your 17 correct?

Sarunas · 23-08-2004 3:22pm

Unofficial list of the people who will be starting Computer Applications (DC121) in DCU in 2004 are:

1. "CULT", Ross
2. "-oRnein9-"
3. "Sarunas", Sarunas
4. "Blackwizard", Darragh
5. "SmellyIrishMan", Andy
6. "napalm@night", Kev
7. "VinnyL", Vinny L.
8. Paul (a friend of mine who i is joining us too)
9. "Patrick"
10. "The Butcher", Kev (a friend of SmellyIrishMan/Andy)
11. "adjodlo" (repeating first year)

Note: a name between double quotes is a boards nick, if the poster revealed his/hers real name, its followed after the boards nick.

Sarunas · 23-08-2004 3:27pm

An yeah, im 17 thats

and

. Lets just say i will be 18 after a first year of dcu.

Draupnir · 23-08-2004 3:38pm

Well done lads, Id say orientation week will start around the 25th of September give or take a few days. So save a few quid and head along to the Orientation Ball that week, get chat to some of the first year nurses or business students. Thats where the best women can be found.

Registration will start in early October or very late September.

Vinny: Congrats man

napalm@night · 23-08-2004 3:49pm

feeling like the oldy at a grand old age of 19.....

Smellyirishman · 23-08-2004 3:50pm

Sweet, another month off!
Ye, im not 18 till January.
Ye, we make up 12% of first year CA

Oh and there is at least one other mate of mine going

The Butcher , Kev , 18

And a guy I knew in school but dont talk to much.

adjodlo · 23-08-2004 3:57pm

AFAIK, I'll be repeating first year CA. go me.

adjodlo · 23-08-2004 3:59pm

Smellyirishman wrote:

Sweet, another month off!
Ye, im not 18 till January.
Ye, we make up 12% of first year CA

Oh and there is at least one other mate of mine going

The Butcher , Kev , 18

And a guy I knew in school but dont talk to much.

Not being 18 in first year is a pain in the hole. One of my mates was only 18 in March a few years ago and it was his first year in DCU and he couldn't go into the bar or any of that shít. If you have a decent fake id then you can still go out on nights out but it really is a hassle having to sign people in and the like.

Patrick · 23-08-2004 5:33pm

i've accepted aswell

Trebor · 23-08-2004 6:17pm

i had CA down as my first choice but i failed maths somehow

so am getting it rechecked but it doesn't matter got a letter from ucas today and i'm off to Scotland!!!

CuLT · 23-08-2004 7:12pm

Oh well Trebor, gues I won't be seeing YOU again

, heh, I got a D3 in classics, after all the A's yer man gave me during the year

.

I too feel slightly old at 19 now 0_o . Crap, and I've been the spritely youth at all the boards beers before!

Trebor · 23-08-2004 7:30pm

CuLT wrote:

Oh well Trebor, gues I won't be seeing YOU again , heh, I got a D3 in classics, after all the A's yer man gave me during the year .

I too feel slightly old at 19 now 0_o . Crap, and I've been the spritely youth at all the boards beers before!

damn you youngn's, come back to me when you've been surrounded by 17/18 year olds for a year at 23 then you can feel slightly old

haha i got a C1 in clasics

CuLT · 23-08-2004 7:37pm

Trebor wrote:

damn you youngn's, come back to me when you've been surrounded by 17/18 year olds for a year at 23 then you can feel slightly old

haha i got a C1 in clasics

Aye, but the important thing is you ACTED like a 17/18 year old :P .

Trebor · 23-08-2004 7:46pm

CuLT wrote:

Aye, but the important thing is you ACTED like a 17/18 year old :P .

and that will never change

btw am looking into the details, but i should be renting out my granny flat which is 10min walk from dcu, if anyones interested i will have a post in the accommodation board when its been finalised

drane2 · 23-08-2004 8:30pm

damnyanks wrote:

Usually getting a laptop for college is pointless especially for first year. The machines in whatever college you are will suffice for whatever needs you have in college. Its highly unlikely that you are going to get any difficult projects that take up a lot of times and need a decent setup in first year. Save your cash for 2nd or 3rd year laptops.

There is also the added hassle of having to carry a piece of hardware worth over 1k around with you all day. What if you end up going out for a few drinks unannounced (Happens quite often in college )

Dunno if this has been mentioned elsewhere but in DCU having a laptop is not a bad idea. Sometimes, free PCs can be hard to come by and the whole DCU campus (pretty much) is covered by wireless access points.

adjodlo · 23-08-2004 9:26pm

Theres about a million computers. In all my times in DCU, even in the height of people studying for exams, there was always about 20-30 free computers per lab. no joke.

StickyMcGinty · 23-08-2004 11:09pm

napalm@night wrote:

feeling like the oldy at a grand old age of 19.....

hey napalm, do we get O.A.P. discounts cause i'm 19 too. we might get on the bus for free now we're soooo old!

i did common entry science last year, thats why i'm soooo old.

by the way, any of you who havnt managed to crack the code yet, my name is VINNY L

back to the simplex crosswords lads....

its gonna be this much fun this year <

>

i cant wait!

and cheers draupnier!

napalm@night · 24-08-2004 9:03am

yeah somewhow an oap on his way to ca...cant see it working much as id like to...could always try using using a walking stick and getting the bus driver to use cool rampie thing.....either way names Kev

CuLT · 25-08-2004 12:15am

Oh yeah, I'm Ross.

banquo · 25-08-2004 11:42pm

my name is ROb and im going into first year of dc121.

also going is "Winters", aka 'graham'.

see ye there.

Winters · 25-08-2004 11:49pm

banquo wrote:

also going is "Winters"

Going again is the word your looking for.

Smellyirishman · 25-08-2004 11:51pm

Get editing Saranus!

Cool, looks like there will be a good droup of us there, looking forward to it now , got my definite acceptance letter from CAO today

Sarunas · 26-08-2004 9:52am

Smellyirishman wrote:

Get editing Saranus!

Cool, looks like there will be a good droup of us there, looking forward to it now , got my definite acceptance letter from CAO today

For some reason I cannot edit any of my posts on this thread, so im just gonna put the list online: http://homepage.eircom.net/~sarunas/dc121_list so bookmark it!

Yeah I got a notification from cao yesterday that i accepted the course.

Smellyirishman · 26-08-2004 11:17am

Ye, usually after a certain amount of time your not allowed to edit your posts any more.

BlackWizard · 26-08-2004 1:07pm

So when we find out when DCU accept us into dc121? Another 6 weeks off or something crazy like that! Its great, im never leaving college....better wait till i get in before i jinx myself by saying that

Draupnir · 26-08-2004 9:27pm

DCU lectures, Computing school anyway, are back on the 27th of September so expect orientation to be around the 15th to the 20th. Then you get a week long tour which isnt particularly useful but no harm.

Plus the orientation ball. A good way to meet other first years.

Ill be away until at the end of september till early october but again, anyone needs a hand or some info gimme a shout and ill try to help.

Winters · 26-08-2004 9:32pm

Sarunas wrote:

For some reason I cannot edit any of my posts on this thread, so im just gonna put the list online: http://homepage.eircom.net/~sarunas/dc121_list so bookmark it!

You can change me to "repeating" aswell .. for I shall not need to attend many of the lectures.

I do reccomend you bring a pillow to Maths lectures though, and do go to the maths tutorials or your screwed. Also on behalf of Moduls, take "Topics in Computing" for the first semester. Its a hour and a half [usually] on a friday morning but its a very simple exam and a gurantee pass.

steviec · 26-08-2004 9:39pm

Winters wrote:

You can change me to "repeating" aswell .. for I shall not need to attend many of the lectures.

I do reccomend you bring a pillow to Maths lectures though, and do go to the maths tutorials or your screwed. Also on behalf of Moduls, take "Topics in Computing" for the first semester. Its a hour and a half [usually] on a friday morning but its a very simple exam and a gurantee pass.

If you did honours maths I'd recommend not going to the Maths lectures at all, the exam is easy by Leaving Cert standards but the lectures really beat all knowledge out of you.

banquo · 26-08-2004 11:36pm

can we get another list of dc121 attendants?

phreak · 27-08-2004 6:54pm

for any of you that use quakenet, #dcu might interest you. bit dead during the summer though.

Trebor · 31-08-2004 12:46am

anyone looking for accomodation, i have an ensuite room suitable for one person available 10 min walk from DCU, if interested send me a pm and i will send you the details.

the butcher · 31-08-2004 9:44pm

hey im kev, i'll be joining this family :eek:

StickyMcGinty · 31-08-2004 11:12pm

Trebor wrote:

anyone looking for accomodation, i have an ensuite room suitable for one person available 10 min walk from DCU, if interested send me a pm and i will send you the details.

yea lads i have a single room available in a 4 bed gaff with me and 2 other dcu lads for €75 a week, 10 mins walk from dcu, and on the 19a bus route. one other lad dropped out so there is 1 room available

BlackWizard · 14-09-2004 2:56pm

Could someone tell me what RedBrick in DCU is all about? Like what happens when u join? What events go on etc

Suaimhneach · 15-09-2004 12:29am

Afaik, there is loads of comp facilities etc, it should be in the thingy they send out to you in the post.

BlackWizard · 21-09-2004 6:43pm

More than one girl

Im looking forward to gettin our time table tomorrow, to see how early ive to get up out of bed:(

steviec · 21-09-2004 9:11pm

CA1 Timetable:
http://www.dcu.ie/timetables/feed.php3?prog=CA&per=1&week1=1&week2=12&hour=1-20&template=student

Subject to change but that should be mostly correct. Remember a lot of those subjects are options so you wont be doing all of them.

If you wanna know what redbrick is about go to www.redbrick.dcu.ie, think of it as a bit of an online community(boards, chats, instant messaging), very techie and they run a lot of tutorials on networking things(but you dont have to be into that side, I know nothing about Linux or most of the technical stuff they do but I still get a lot out of the society), they also run a fair few events throughout the year, if your in CA you should definitely join. Its worth your 4 euro.

Sarunas · 21-09-2004 9:46pm

BlackWizard wrote:

More than one girl Im looking forward to gettin our time table tomorrow, to see how early ive to get up out of bed:(

Thats true, there were few nice girls in there. And how many people are in the course? Looked alot to me when we were all together in the nursing building....

Have to get up early tomorrow (something like 6:30).... sleep...

Howdo · 21-09-2004 9:54pm

What is the point of doing CA. Loads of Development is going to India.

Smellyirishman · 21-09-2004 10:08pm

Please leave this thread FOREVER howdo

You sure the timetable is the same every year? I saw that one before but I was under the impression that it would changed.

Ye despite the ratio beinging like 1 girl to every 10 guys if not worse! im actually surprised by the amount of girls! (is that sexist, or just being real!)

Howdo · 22-09-2004 2:35pm

Smellyirishman wrote:

Please leave this thread FOREVER howdo

Stick you head in the sand then

Smellyirishman · 22-09-2004 5:47pm

Im not sticking my head in the sand, your being stupid about it!

There is more business over in america, does that mean that you should not do business if your not living over there? Just because some companies choose to move to another cheaper location does not mean that ALL will and we will be useless! This is a highly universal degree and we can easily follow the market ( if we want to )

Just because some of the industry is moving does not been that we should not bother doing CA! that is possible the stupidiest thing I have heard in a while.

Im not sticking my head in the sand your just thinking like a fool

BlackWizard · 22-09-2004 8:00pm

It seems like about 10-15 girls wud be my guess which is good i suppose for CA. Im not worried about getting a job after the degree for basically the same reason smellyirishman explained + id have no problem traveling to GB or even USA for a few years, as it is a internationally recognised degree

Ferror · 23-09-2004 12:20am

Sigh.. Yet another CA student here, i'm Colm btw

Smellyirishman · 25-09-2004 7:45pm

Welcome to the clic colm!

Anyone here doing the physics module? cause I saw that on the timetable there is a physics practical friday afternoon but there is also CA165 Tutorial!

Or am I just reading it wrong? and when do we find out whos tutorial we are in for CA165 and a tuesday? I saw some sort of list thing on the site but it isnt made up yet

steviec · 25-09-2004 9:20pm

If you do physics then you won't be in that tutorial group for CA165 you'll be in one at a different time. Physics is dead easy if you did it for the leaving cert by the way, just hideously boring.

Smellyirishman · 27-09-2004 12:25am

Got a B2 in the LC so

Jiggy · 19-08-2009 3:02pm

Im doing C.A !
Finally woop

Ill be easily recognized by glasses and my mop hair and maybe a humorous t-shirt

Just wondering if the old Macbook i use is fine for the course ?
Its nothing fancy and a basic enough model (cause I had to pay)

Its uses Version 10.4.11 Mac OS X

Stev_o · 19-08-2009 6:18pm

Jiggy wrote: »

Im doing C.A !
Finally woop

Ill be easily recognized by glasses and my mop hair and maybe a humorous t-shirt

Just wondering if the old Macbook i use is fine for the course ?
Its nothing fancy and a basic enough model (cause I had to pay)

Its uses Version 10.4.11 Mac OS X

You ll be using the pc's in there most of the times and eww Mac prepare for abuse come September from the elitists

But yeah it'll do ill end up getting myself a cheap netbook for assignments and stuff.

DCU Computer Applications!! Any1 doing it?

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