Computer Science....

JackKelly

It seems like there are quite a few CS students on this board, and was wondering what the general feeling towards the coure was.
I'm not doing it myself, but im thinking more and more about changing couse(if its possible) and CS would probably be what i'd change to if it were posssible.
I'm doing TP at the moment, and tbh i'm not at all interested in the topics. The only class i actually like doing things for is the computation class. Obviously i'm going to give it time, maybe even the year, but if i havent picked up interest by then, im out of here. So was wondering how the CS'ers find the course.

fade

monkeys with calculators,




















VIVA LA PHYSICS!!!!!! (and to a lesser extent chemistry... but never geography)

Crash

Go away fly :P

(aimed at fade btw, not OP )

Nietzschean

bah CS, its fer gurls...(like crash).... And gets him laughed at by women.....

edibility

I like it tbh, it's interesting and varied.

fade

well sir, without us "advanced materialists" your precious machines would never have been created!

ah ha!!!!!!

and dont even get me started on engineers.......

Nietzschean

without us mathematicians none of your professions would exist

Skitbra

Without any fags like you there'd be no sound people like me.

air_vent

Monkeys with calc is right!!!!

And lets not get into this who's course is better jive cause we all need each other in a way, except engineers cause the monkeys can do all that stuff, i can give them my brothers old yellow cash register that goes ping , you know the ones. the monkeys will probably regin supreme with their engineer slaves with them,


THE END IS NIGH

Edwardius

without us mathematicians none of your professions would exist

Bah. we thought an inability to get laid would kill off this unfortunate geeky race!

air_vent

Skitbra wrote:

Without any fags like you there'd be no sound people like me.

I would like to second this but a ban my insue so I condem this act of defiance in defence of my own

fade

Skitbra wrote:

Without any fags like you there'd be no sound people like me.

yea buddy your real sound, about as sound a f*ckin serious case of the clap, now **** off to somehwere your wanted, like back into your mothers c*nt, hey after all, it is where you got that horrible horrible disease, isnt it? pikey

Skitbra

Another one

Crash

I love fades angry posts. Skitbra - I can assume from your nick that you

1) Have a severe case of the ****s.

2)Need a bit of support from somewhere, almost in a brassiere manner, so as to feel cool - even if its people being mean to you.

How Cute

fade

Skitbra wrote:

Another one

lets al stand around in a cirlce in awe of this mans intellect!

/me claps hands

but really, is that all i have to say? i told you to f*ck off back up your mothers c*nt, after all it is quite loose considering the amount of cock she taken in her lifetime, a lifetime that ive been assured has been full of dissapointments, namely you, and your sexually transmitted disease. dont forget, the best part of you ran down your mothers leg

AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

fade

im bored now so im goin home, someone take care of this clown for me.

masteroftherealm

Nietzschean

bannage...

masteroftherealm

Gun Plus Clown Plus Serenity=A good night out ;p

Nietzschean

Señor Juárez

Whoa, it took a whole 2 posts for this thread to go off topic.

Anyway, its a rough enough course.. though I guess some are enjoying it. If you are going to change for this year, do it soon, and even then, you'll have a fair bit of catching up to do!

nosmo

Parts kick ass, other parts suck. The maths is fun, nothing too challenging, but still fun.
Computing is deadly. asm.
Programming - Don't get me started. WHERE'S THE DAMN CODE?!
Electrotech - zzzzz.
DLD - Sometimes confusing, but generally fun.
Computers and society - err... yeah. Huh? yes. Much like Descartes who.... huh?

Jim_No.6

nosmo is in TCD CS?!

Jim_No.6

Jim_No.6 wrote:

nosmo is in TCD CS?!

Yes. And he's behind you.

Mystic Fibrosis

It gets me up in the morning. I don't know whether that's good or not but meh.

davork

nosmo wrote:

Parts kick ass, other parts suck. The maths is fun, nothing too challenging, but still fun.
Computing is deadly. asm.
Programming - Don't get me started. WHERE'S THE DAMN CODE?!
Electrotech - zzzzz.
DLD - Sometimes confusing, but generally fun.
Computers and society - err... yeah. Huh? yes. Much like Descartes who.... huh?

Wow... sounds like some things don't change in Comp Sci degrees...

I did mine (cough) 20 years ago (cough) and we had a 'software engineering' module... those of us who had coded (shock, horror) for money knew we were kurfukled when the lecturer told us that no module should have more than 30 lines in it. Including comments. Turned out later that the lecturer had never worked in the real world... yeah, I flucked that course badly. Really badly.

Back to Corporate Finance... someone pass the whiskey...

JackKelly

any more opinions?

Also, what is the general thought behind doing an Electrical Engineering degreee over CS?

exiztone

CS would be great if it weren't for the electrotechnology class.

Can you drop in year 2?

bbrazil

exiztone wrote:

CS would be great if it weren't for the electrotechnology class.

Can you drop in year 2?

You have no choices until 4th year.

exiztone

During freshers' week, the Sci-fi soc told me that half of the Electrotech/Communications was difficult and the other half was easy. Which is the easy one and which is the difficult one?

Mystic Fibrosis

Electrotech = difficult, especially if you've never done physics before.
Apparently Communications is pretty easy.

wheresthebeef

Computers and society - err... yeah. Huh? yes. Much like Descartes who.... huh?

Trinity has gone sociology/society mad. Nearly every course has a module called "The Sociology of [insert course name]".

We have Sociology and its role in Health Care. Our lecturer is mad (in a nice way).

If CS won't take you, pop over to the School of Nursing and Midwifery. The more the merrier.

BrenC

hmmm...well i do CS....that is all

Crash

bbrazil wrote:

You have no choices until 4th year.

Incorrect, seeing as there are two choices in third year.

also telecomms is the piss easy part of electrotech/telecoms

The Shol'va

exiztone wrote:

During freshers' week, the Sci-fi soc told me that half of the Electrotech/Communications was difficult and the other half was easy. Which is the easy one and which is the difficult one?

Electrotech = first half dead easy if you did physics, second half ****ed if you didn't
Telecomms = read the book 2 hours before the exam and get a first

And no electrotech in second year, unless you count the odd circuit diagram while wiring up the robot that is sure to break soon... Also, no DLD. I love second year... well, I will as long as Neil keeps getting us extensions

FunkyChicken

Do you do regular expressions and finite automata in 1st year there? We are in maynooth and it's so god damn shít.

Crash

....i'm so tired, my C ****ed me over millions of times. having the worst luck with code this year....

(also i cant request an extension in 2ba1 or 2ba2 til next term at the earliest - and none in 2ba3 - and i doubt stefan would listen - and neither would manzke. i'd say we're bone dry on extensions until after christmas.

The Shol'va

crash_000 wrote:

....i'm so tired, my C ****ed me over millions of times. having the worst luck with code this year....

(also i cant request an extension in 2ba1 or 2ba2 til next term at the earliest - and none in 2ba3 - and i doubt stefan would listen - and neither would manzke. i'd say we're bone dry on extensions until after christmas.

What about BCPSY? :P

Crash

do your own dirty work, i only worry bout BCFILM

bbrazil

crash_000 wrote:

Incorrect, seeing as there are two choices in third year.

Back in my day...

Kopf

CS is a waste of a mind.

Señor Juárez

Mystic Fibrosis wrote:

It gets me up in the morning. I don't know whether that's good or not but meh.

morning wood?

Crash

Kopf wrote:

CS is a waste of a mind.

your post was a waste of my mind, try to be less retarded while posting, k?

Ron DMC

Kopf wrote:

CS is a waste of a mind.

Wow, this is the first time I think I've ever seen you post. Being banned from netsoc give you some free time?

edibility

Some of us have no morning wood to get us "up" marclar ;_; not that the course ever really does for me either.....

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Personally I think the course is well deadly...I would agree with Nosmo that the maths ain't too challenging..but otherwise it rocks.. 1BA2 is a bit of a joke, though we are actually starting on java now.....finally

Barry Aldwell

It's worrying that the JF engineers have done more programming than the CS students. But then again, just goes to show which course the faculty care about more..........

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

That may be because in 1E3 you just dive in and start writing ****e CPP programs. Also, a lot of CS students have extensive programming knowledge long before they start college.

The more I examine it, for a lot of people CS is almost a vocation like course - people who do it and take it seriously have been tinkering around with computers at one level or another for years. There are a lot less people doing it purely for the degree, more because it's what they enjoy.

Futher, ignoring faculty bias - the School of Computer Science and Statistics is the largest school in TCD and thus is one of the best choices for those wishing to do postgraduate study in Trinity.

Just my €0.02.

Crash

Barry - if you choose C or D stream in 3rd year, you will be dumped dead in the middle of assembly - have fun. They tend to dump engineers into coding without much introduction - whereas CS attempts to teach you good programming from teh start.

Nietzschean

haha, 'dump' isn't quite a good word, i've done the engineers assembly, was taught fine(tho didn't go much) and was by enlarge extreemly easy.....

'teach you good programming' what a larf......

Boston

Barry Aldwell wrote:

It's worrying that the JF engineers have done more programming than the CS students. But then again, just goes to show which course the faculty care about more..........

Don't make me laugh. You're about at the stage where you can write a while loop or maybe even a fuction. CS Do allot more programming then us, the gap becomes more apparent in second year.

Neil; They dump us into Java but thats only because we're allready very adapt at C++. Assembly is pretty much thought to the same level, if not abit higher, then it is to CS first years.

Ian; The course has got harder according to lads who are demostrating it now, but it's managable.

Sarah; Insert some comment about wood and dildo's