Comp SCI college

Areq

What college in your opinion is the best one to study computer science in Dublin ?

Fad

DIT was supposed to be the best up until recently, but apparently the facilities are absolutely horrendous.

I do it in UCD, and it's pretty decent to begin with, and then they changed the course so you can only do denominated CS (As opposed to denominated or doing CS through general entry science). They changed all the maths modules for first year for the better and you're learning C instead of Java, couple of other minor changes. New course seems very good, I did it through general entry science with Chemistry and that was just awful until I dropped Chem. There are a few dodgy lecturers, but you will find that with all courses.

Cant talk for TCD, heard some very mixed things about it though.

bigred100

1st year in UCD here, there is a much more practical approach to programming now than I was lead to believe there was previously. You don't have to be brilliant at maths, but be willing to put in effort. The facilities for 1st year are brilliant btw, and I reckon next years 1st years will have a better course again due to us moaning a lot. Some lectures you will want to kill, shiny headed ****!!!!!

NotExactly

Fad wrote: »

DIT was supposed to be the best up until recently, but apparently the facilities are absolutely horrendous..

How was it supposed to be the best if the facilities are horrendous?

bigred100

NotExactly wrote: »

How was it supposed to be the best if the facilities are horrendous?

I heard the course itself was more hands on than some of the others

ThatShane

bigred100 wrote: »

1st year in UCD here, there is a much more practical approach to programming now than I was lead to believe there was previously. You don't have to be brilliant at maths, but be willing to put in effort. The facilities for 1st year are brilliant btw, and I reckon next years 1st years will have a better course again due to us moaning a lot. Some lectures you will want to kill, shiny headed ****!!!!!

Hey, will most likely be doing this course (computer science in UCD) this year and was wondering what's so great about the facilities? At the open day the active learning lab just seemed like a few tables and monitors lol, would really appreciate a response

~Shane

bigred100

ThatShane wrote: »

Hey, will most likely be doing this course (computer science in UCD) this year and was wondering what's so great about the facilities? At the open day the active learning lab just seemed like a few tables and monitors lol, would really appreciate a response

~Shane

That pretty much is the facilities for 1st years, you don't appreciate them until you move out of that room. All the tables have plugs on them for laptops, and everyone has an individual ethernet connection(only use it to download TV shows), when you move from that room you realise it's pretty much perfect for using laptops all day. Rest of the rooms are a bit more school-y, but by that stage you're locked in!!

ThatShane

bigred100 wrote: »

That pretty much is the facilities for 1st years, you don't appreciate them until you move out of that room. All the tables have plugs on them for laptops, and everyone has an individual ethernet connection(only use it to download TV shows), when you move from that room you realise it's pretty much perfect for using laptops all day. Rest of the rooms are a bit more school-y, but by that stage you're locked in!!

Thanks, appreciate the answer, what are the lecturers like? The one I was talking to was a bit monotone but they seem nice enough, can't wait to get started!

bigred100

ThatShane wrote: »

Thanks, appreciate the answer, what are the lecturers like? The one I was talking to was a bit monotone but they seem nice enough, can't wait to get started!

Any idea of the name? There's good and bad as with all things. What I've found is you get through the lectures, then in the tutorials you can actually learn how to do things by asking. The tutors I have are, for the most part, bang on.

ThatShane

bigred100 wrote: »

Any idea of the name? There's good and bad as with all things. What I've found is you get through the lectures, then in the tutorials you can actually learn how to do things by asking. The tutors I have are, for the most part, bang on.

That's great to hear, thanks for being so helpful Was the Dean of Comp Science who I was talking to I believe, nice guy but a bit boring to listen to, can't remember his name.

Aoifey!

I agree about DIT having horrible facilities. A friend of mine did the first year a computer course there and said the facitilies were not good at all.

Healium

bigred100 wrote: »

1st year in UCD here, there is a much more practical approach to programming now than I was lead to believe there was previously. You don't have to be brilliant at maths, but be willing to put in effort. The facilities for 1st year are brilliant btw, and I reckon next years 1st years will have a better course again due to us moaning a lot. Some lectures you will want to kill, shiny headed ****!!!!!

Pity some people lack this effort

I blame two years of despising my maths teacher.