MSc in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

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Hi. Does anybody have any experience of this course? I have been accepted into it starting this year. What can I expect workload wise and what do you reckon I should know before I go in? Also how many hours per week should I be expecting to spend in College?

snappieT

I did Networks and Distributed Systems this year, which shares a few modules with MUC. The workload, as for any masters, is extremely high. There are about 20 hours of lectures each week, but you will constantly have several assignments (often group assignments) on the go, so you'll constantly be working to meet those deadline. Week-by-week, the hours you need to spend will change, but I would expect at least a few late nights over the coming year.,

One of the modules is an individual project to develop some distributed software in Java over the course of one semester. If you know and have practiced Java, including the networking aspects of Java, that would be a good start.

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How many people do you reckon will be in the lectures and on the course in general? Also what age do the students tend to be? How much knowledge of hardware is ideal?

snappieT

NDS had about 25, UBC was a bit smaller, maybe 15-20. I don't know too much about the hardware prerequisites, but there is assembly programming involved, so a basic understanding of how CPUs, memory and I/O work would probably be worthwhile.