Computer Application Students!

Nanaki

Hey, just rang Julie Ann Ennis, the marketing officer for DC121, to ask about some stuff.

She said that there are no optional modules anymore on the course.
Apparently that was in the letter we got from the CAO a few months back can't say I remember it!

Oh, and the timetable should be up by the 7th, I'm assuming thats for all courses (but even that will still be provisional for the first while)

And here was me worrying about whether I was gonna do physics or electronics!! :pac:

Diarmaid07

ah piss! >=/

Matthewthebig

There was 2 before in first year. They are now gone with the course restructuring.

You get choices in 4th year though.

cognos

Did you find out what the modules are anyhow? Are there any non computing topics any more?

And FYI its CA rather than DC121 now that you're in

Septico

Matthewthebig wrote: »

You get choices in 4th year though.

They're really nice aren't they.

Patricide

http://www.dcu.ie/timetables/feed.php3?prog=CA&per=1&week1=1&week2=12&hour=1-28&template=student

Wait im confused, according then to the timetable they have posted up looks like all of us are then doing both french and german. This CANT be right can it? I mean i havent done any language since first year and if i wanted t do a language course in college i woulda applied for one.

Matthewthebig

1. That's last years
2. The key word is OPTIONS

Patricide

Thank the lord. Im very confused at this stage regarding the course, every piece of information im getting seems to be conflicting, even from dcu themselves.

Diarmaid07

We'll have the full lowdown this day week anyway (registration)

Patricide

Looking forward to it .

irish_boy90

yeah this is the first time i've heard this. :rolleyes:

Will find out eventually anyway.:p

mocks!?!

yup, cant wait, should be a great course!

The woman rang, julie ann is it? about the course and she was very helpful and friendly.

the new layout seems good. more computer orientated and with a choice for second year.

anyone have any more opinions on this course?

when is the final timetable arranged?

cognos

mocks!?! wrote: »

anyone have any more opinions on this course?

don't get me started!

mocks!?! wrote: »

The woman rang, julie ann is it? about the course and she was very helpful and friendly.

aye, either her or shiofra - they're the most helpful staff you'll find in the school, they actually listen to students!

mocks!?! wrote: »

when is the final timetable arranged?

it will be changing a lot until the 2nd or 3rd week of the semester

Nanaki

^ yeah she was alot more helpful than when I had to ring the registry!

btw I was still half alseep when I wrote "DC121" :P

Diarmaid07

New timetable meant to be out today, but no change...


Word on that?

cooker3

They try to keep pretty consistent but no matter what it says, things will change in first few weeks of the semester.

barnacle

Patricide wrote: »

every piece of information im getting seems to be conflicting, even from dcu themselves.

You have 4 years of this to look forward to.

TomCo

barnacle wrote: »

You have 4 years of this to look forward to.

And 4 years is being optimistic.

Phillylad

Starting to get a bit worried about the time table now myself... Would like to know exactly what it'l look like but how and and ever... Anyone else in my position...

mocks!?!

Phillylad wrote: »

Starting to get a bit worried about the time table now myself... Would like to know exactly what it'l look like but how and and ever... Anyone else in my position...

well this timetable has been up for a while , says its the draft one for 08-09 and god do i hope it changes- look at the evening finishes.:eek:

friday is a good day and monday start at 10 seems ok..
24 hours a week, suppose i shouldnt complain.

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

cooker3

24 hours a week seems like torture.
By the time you get to 4th year you will be down to 6 hours a week.
Anyway most of you will not reach double figures for hours a week and when most notes are on moodle there is really no need to either

irish_boy90

cooker3 wrote: »

24 hours a week seems like torture.
By the time you get to 4th year you will be down to 6 hours a week.
Anyway most of you will not reach double figures for hours a week and when most notes are on moodle there is really no need to either

still find this hard to believe its fine to miss so much time

Patricide

Believe me, college missing time isnt that big a deal. Well in my english and media course last year it wasnt anyway. As long as you go to labs and tutorials and the notes are online theres not much point in lectures IMO. Dunno how its gonna be in this course though so il go to lectures for a few weeks to sus it out.

Phillylad

really cant wait to start now just bored waiting for it...anyone else commuting from in or around the wicklow area???? i cant be the only one!!!! ha cheers

mickmickh

Phillylad wrote: »

really cant wait to start now just bored waiting for it...anyone else commuting from in or around the wicklow area???? i cant be the only one!!!! ha cheers

ah d phillylad!!!...gis a lift home in d audi on friday like a gud lad!?!:D

cooker3

irish_boy90 wrote: »

still find this hard to believe its fine to miss so much time

Everyone has such good intentions going in but the same pattern always repeat itself. The majority don't attend more then half I'd say

I am sure that people who tend to attend most lectures actually do better on average then those who don't but in my opinion has not much to do with the lectures and learning from the content but down to a demonstration of the motivation levels behind doing what is required. If they are willing to go to a 9am lecture even though it's raining etc then they are likely to put hours into doing a good assignment, not just studying for an exam the night before. It's all about motivation

Zyox

Look to your left. Look to your right. Next year none of you will be there.

Will

FREE ZYOX :pac:

Oh ray walshe, how you crushed my dreams with those 3 sentences

StiLL-TrAiNinG

Zyox wrote: »

Look to your left. Look to your right. Next year none of you will be there.

We didn't get that speech this (well, last now) year.

cooker3

StiLL-TrAiNinG wrote: »

We didn't get that speech this (well, last now) year.

That's not right. everyone should get it, it's like an rite of passage for CA

Will

yeah you need the fear of ray in your life!

Will

Saw this on reddit today and thought it might come in handy for some first years doing CA, basically another version of robot world

http://www.gameroo.nl/games/light-bot

give it a whirl, it's fun'ish :pac:

Carri

I'm doing CA!

^_^

(and I just joined boards.ie... )

irish_boy90

Carri wrote: »

I'm doing CA!

^_^

(and I just joined boards.ie... )

*High Five* welcome to the club so :pac:

Carri

Thank you!

Lectures start monday! How eeexxcellent! :P

irish_boy90

Maths whooo :rolleyes: O well The first day will be funny (this is a keyboard, its the bit with all the buttons)

At least they made Tuesdays better. 7 hours without a break didn't look like a great day lol

Carri

My debs is on Tuesday.. I nearly cried when I seen the timetable! :P

It's not the best timetable at all.. Although now we only have one workshop a week, it's ALOT better

irish_boy90

Carri wrote: »

My debs is on Tuesday.. I nearly cried when I seen the timetable! :P

It's not the best timetable at all.. Although now we only have one workshop a week, it's ALOT better

yeah I might be able to go out on a Monday now :cool:
since we have one less class on Wednesday this Tuesday night looks like a great night to head out
...what will I do for the rest of the day though, will only be in for an hour ^^

Carri

SLEEP,

Or make a costume and go to freshers ball...

..... Or study.. (HAHAHA)

irish_boy90

Carri wrote: »

SLEEP,

Or make a costume and go to freshers ball...

..... Or study.. (HAHAHA)

Don't think we will need to do that too much in the first week, maybe go over and read through a few things but not full out study. (yet)

I have no idea how i would make a costume, where would i get materials? what would i do with them

....will the bar be open? (sure why not 10:00am is late enough to start)

Nanaki

stilll a pretty long day.
Going by the talk with yearheads etc, it's gonna be an important day given all that programming

Carri

Pfft.. Programming's reasonably easy..

Although I don't know C and I think thats what we start on.

Nanaki

Can't say I know a thing about programming =P

Carri

We'll all learn together!

Then we shall party together! Wooo..

irish_boy90

I don't know a thing except for a little bit of html I looked up when i was bored one day :pac:

Nanaki

doin well with the partin so far then /o/
carri - who gave you the campus tour?

Carri

I know html, some PHP, some Java, some Ruby...

I'm not very good at it though, but I try.

HTML is simple and quite straight forward, but some web designs require you to combine it with some other language for certain things.

Anywho, I can't wait!

irish_boy90

Carri wrote: »

I know html, some PHP, some Java, some Ruby...

I'm not very good at it though, but I try.

HTML is simple and quite straight forward, but some web designs require you to combine it with some other language for certain things.

Anywho, I can't wait!

So your miles ahead of me lol:pac:

Nanaki

anyone have Robin for the tour?

Carri

Yup! ^_^ He knows nothing about OS's!

Nanaki

I was thinking "unix...unix...ffs!"
So were you one of the people with music clothes and/or long hair? =]
I'm the guy with slightly curly light brown hair :P