3rd Year Options

ktulu123

Heading into 3rd year Computer Science and just wondering what past 3rd year students thought of the 3 modules that we have to select 2 from?

Cheers

LadyJ

Eh...what course are you on?

mufc4lfe

LadyJ wrote: »

Eh...what course are you on?

Ah I think thats fairly obvious...:rolleyes:

ktulu123

LadyJ wrote: »

Eh...what course are you on?

haha, oops sorry! Im doing Computer Science!

Sir Molle

The games stream is good because there's a lot of programming and it gives you a chance to put some of your software engineering skills to use. I also did the seke stream and kind of regretted it. There is a lot of theory in SEKE, but it's useful for developing an understanding for the use of methodologies in the work place I suppose. From what I've heard from people working in IT, J-unit testing is next to useless, but learning about automated testing was pretty useful I guess. That's the one thing I'm glad I learned. It came in handy for the team project. CSAA is pretty useful from what I've heard. It's also quite practical. If I were to do it all again, I'd take this route in place of the SEKE route. But that's just me.

Creamy Goodness

SEKE route is a pile of ****e in my opinion.

it's nice and important to know about agile methods, methodologies etc.etc. and you should know about them but they need to be learned by doing them in an working environment but the basics of them can be learned on the internet in a couple of hours, no need for a whole semester on them again my opinion. it wasn't popular last year with only one student wanting to take it for 4th year and it didn't run.

CSAA is a piss easy subject in third year, if you know basic unix command line you can basically skip the first half of the semester. this stream has no programming in it bar tiny bit of scripting, in 4th year it's a lot of programming, scripting and algorithms (cryptography). 7 students took this for 4th year.

Games is the best steam for improving your programming as it's solely based on programming. if you've no interest in games, then give it a miss, if you play more than the casual gamer, give it a shot. 4 students took this.

SDIS which is internet and distributed programming in a nutshell is the fallback one if you don't specialise in any of the above and in my opinion should be introduced a bit earlier, distributed programming is a HUGE section of computer science and for it to be jammed into one year is really a bit much. also the internet side of it focusses way too much on java technologies like jsp, servlets,jsf etc. where's the php one of the most popular web development languages out there, also web servers like apache and apache tomcat needed a bit more in depth looking at again in my opinion judging by how many students scratched their heads. 30+ took this module.

ktulu123

Cheers lads, im hoping they will give us a shot of each one before we pick! Was thinking of games programming and CSAA.

Creamy Goodness

you do all three up until the end of october, you then choose.

realistically if you slow choosing you have until the first project is due one of the options until you choose.