Computing

ForTheLoveOf_Fi

Hi everyone

If anyone on here has done the computing course could you give me an insight to it please? Or PM me.
Have it on the CAO, looks good to me, would just like a bit of insight first hand.
Cheers!

Macca07

Which computing course are you planning on doing?

There's numerous ones in CIT.

Well no, there is one called "computing".


I have a friend that did it and hated it and dropped out. So ask someone other than me!

ForTheLoveOf_Fi

yes the "computing" one
may i ask what he/she hated about it? its all relevant :cool:

mossy464

I just finished the software development and computer networking course.

It is a good course but you may get a shock when you go into first year as I did.

It wasnt what I was expecting at all. A lot of the material is hard to get your head around at first, like programming.

There is also a lot of maths in the course I did which is pretty painful imo. Iv always just scraped past maths in each year but did pretty well in everything else.

Broken Strings

ForTheLoveOf_Fi wrote: »

yes the "computing" one
may i ask what he/she hated about it? its all relevant :cool:

I'm in computing at the moment.

First year was ok, again if you don't come from a computer background then it will be hard for you to get your head around some of the stuff.

I found programming the hardest.

Second year was much more difficult. We started out with about 42 students in first year and were down to about 10. You have to work hard all year round, and you might think that little tests and assignments are not worth working hard on if they are only worth 5 or 10 percent, but you'll realise by end of the semester that in your harder subjects, the little assignments are the things that helped you get your pass.

I enjoy my course, I will say though that it is hard work, missing lectures in some other courses might be ok but the theory of comuting can sometimes be difficult and your practical assignments will be based on your understanding of the theory. If you're cool with working hard and you have an interest in programming I'd say go for it

PM me if you have any more questions. Hope I helped

mossy464

We also started out with a big number in first year then by 4th year there was only 10 of us.

Plus that includes a few people that came from other years to repeat etc. From my first year class, there was only 6 of us made it to 4th year.

It does take a lot of work but computing is a very interesting area.

Bores.ie

I hear the computers have all been recently upgraded from Windows 95 to 98.

What more could you want?

suppafly

I did the Info Tech support course. I liked it. Its good if you like a practical course with lots of hands on. Most of my modules were a 100% continuous assessment, so you had to work through out the year which i prefered to an exam at the end of the year. Out on placement at the moment

D'Agger

Has anybody here done the IT support course?? It's a BSC course that can be done in one year or two if you do it part-time.

Really interested in going into Tech Support so wondering if this would benefit me in getting a job

D'Agger

suppafly wrote: »

I did the Info Tech support course. I liked it. Its good if you like a practical course with lots of hands on. Most of my modules were a 100% continuous assessment, so you had to work through out the year which i prefered to an exam at the end of the year. Out on placement at the moment

Can it be done as a postgrad course do you know? I came across it on the CIT website as being a 2year part time course, I'd probably aim to do it full time, I like the sound of it though and would def prefer practical work

String

PaulieC wrote: »

Can it be done as a postgrad course do you know? I came across it on the CIT website as being a 2year part time course, I'd probably aim to do it full time, I like the sound of it though and would def prefer practical work

I just finished 3rd yr in CIT in ITS. As far as I know you have to get the Higher Certificate in ITS first before you can do the ordinary BSC course unless there is a way you can skip the higher certificate from pervious learning etc. The higher certificate is a 2yr full time course so probably 4 years part time. The ordinary BSC is 1 year.

Higher Certificate - http://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/course/courseId/258
Ordinary BSC - http://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/course/courseId/259
Honours BSC add on - http://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/course/courseId/251

D'Agger

DrMorphine wrote: »

I just finished 3rd yr in CIT in ITS. As far as I know you have to get the Higher Certificate in ITS first before you can do the ordinary BSC course unless there is a way you can skip the higher certificate from pervious learning etc. The higher certificate is a 2yr full time course so probably 4 years part time. The ordinary BSC is 1 year.

Higher Certificate - http://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/course/courseId/258
Ordinary BSC - http://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/course/courseId/259
Honours BSC add on - http://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/course/courseId/251

Thanks for the info that's great. I'm after finishing BIS so I'll be graduated in September...not sure if that'll allow me to skip the higher certificate, although I'm fairly certain I came across the course looking for postgrad courses and the pre-requisite was having a BSC degree so I think I should be ok.

I've emailed it@cit.ie so waiting for a reply from them, hopefully they'll get back to me soon as I really want to know what I'm doing/what I qualify to do. Uncertainty is killing me!

Do you know of any lecturers/yearheads I could contact. I was talking to another lecturer about a different course and he told me to contact Marie Gubbins, have yet to hear back from her and it's been over a week, I know it's summer and all but if you know of anybody I'd appreciate it - thanks in advance

String

PaulieC wrote: »

Thanks for the info that's great. I'm after finishing BIS so I'll be graduated in September...not sure if that'll allow me to skip the higher certificate, although I'm fairly certain I came across the course looking for postgrad courses and the pre-requisite was having a BSC degree so I think I should be ok.

I've emailed it@cit.ie so waiting for a reply from them, hopefully they'll get back to me soon as I really want to know what I'm doing/what I qualify to do. Uncertainty is killing me!

Do you know of any lecturers/yearheads I could contact. I was talking to another lecturer about a different course and he told me to contact Marie Gubbins, have yet to hear back from her and it's been over a week, I know it's summer and all but if you know of anybody I'd appreciate it - thanks in advance

I would use one of the emails in this link - http://www.cit.ie/computing/. CIT is known for being very bad for communicating to students etc so dont stop emailing them till you get a reply. As far as I know there is always a secretary for the computing department on and you should get a reply. I think there is usually an open day in August or early September where you can ask questions etc

D'Agger

DrMorphine wrote: »

I would use one of the emails in this link - http://www.cit.ie/computing/. CIT is known for being very bad for communicating to students etc so dont stop emailing them till you get a reply. As far as I know there is always a secretary for the computing department on and you should get a reply. I think there is usually an open day in August or early September where you can ask questions etc

Great thanks again man

Murts-Rig

Bores.ie wrote: »

I hear the computers have all been recently upgraded from Windows 95 to 98.

What more could you want?

Ya but it took the boys a few months to get used to it. I heard their after reinstalling 95 on some of them.