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RealistSpy

Hi all,

Does anyone know if the college is still using windows xp and if they are still using Visual Studios 2008 or if they have upgraded to 2010.

DrZeuss

As far as I know, very little has changed in your out year. Still xp.
In Unum lab ya can install anything you want on your machine, but we were not allowed change OS.
4th year is different tho I think.

RealistSpy

DrZeuss wrote: »

As far as I know, very little has changed in your out year. Still xp.
In Unum lab ya can install anything you want on your machine, but we were not allowed change OS.
4th year is different tho I think.

Thanks,
I just upgraded to VB2010 I guess I might as well install the VB2008 as well. Looking forward to using the unum lab

DrZeuss

RealistSpy wrote: »

Thanks,
I just upgraded to VB2010 I guess I might as well install the VB2008 as well. Looking forward to using the unum lab

Its very handy having your own machine, you will be able to install VB2010 on your machine in here anyway, nobody else will be using that computer.

What are ya using Visual Studio for anyway?

RealistSpy

DrZeuss wrote: »

Its very handy having your own machine, you will be able to install VB2010 on your machine in here anyway, nobody else will be using that computer.

What are ya using Visual Studio for anyway?

I love to develop my own software/Applications, that's actually the reason I toke a year out after my higher cert. I use Visual Studios 08/10 (.Net) & Netbeans(Java) at the moment.

I wanted to convert all my applications to VS2010.

DrZeuss

Very good. I was just hoping ya weren't using Visual Basic thats all.

You should consider thinking up of an idea for the project after xmas so, thats what I did last year.
It made the project easier having a real interest in it.

RealistSpy

DrZeuss wrote: »

Very good. I was just hoping ya weren't using Visual Basic thats all.

You should consider thinking up of an idea for the project after xmas so, thats what I did last year.
It made the project easier having a real interest in it.

What do you use for .Net Programming? or you hate .Net all together?

Hopefully I can think of more ideas for a project. I am hoping to get work experience though. I am guessing you did software development? What did you pick:

Data Structures & Algorithms
Digital Communications
Networks
Wide Area Networking

I am thinking:
Data Structures & Algorithms
Networks

DrZeuss

There were no options, it was WAN and Data Structures.
I presume it'll be the same this year also, the college used to run a 3rd year Networking course but they don't anymore, thats why the options were dropped.

Did very little on .net
I done my project on Android, learned a lot from it.

I never considered placement, I had decided to do project from the start.

RealistSpy

DrZeuss wrote: »

There were no options, it was WAN and Data Structures.
I presume it'll be the same this year also, the college used to run a 3rd year Networking course but they don't anymore, thats why the options were dropped.

Did very little on .net
I done my project on Android, learned a lot from it.

I never considered placement, I had decided to do project from the start.

Well they better have new options. I might import some of my java app to the android but I have never touched android side before. I am more of a windows app guy. I also love making java libraries(if you need a library let me know, I currently have an IO library) and dll.

DrZeuss

RealistSpy wrote: »

Well they better have new options. I might import some of my java app to the android but I have never touched android side before. I am more of a windows app guy. I also love making java libraries(if you need a library let me know, I currently have an IO library) and dll.

Ah Android isn't that much of a step on from Java.
If you do get a choice of electives, take Data Structures and Algo, personally I think it should be mandatory - its quite essential.

Sure I'll be chatting to ya in the Unum lab at some stage.

RealistSpy

DrZeuss wrote: »

Ah Android isn't that much of a step on from Java.
If you do get a choice of electives, take Data Structures and Algo, personally I think it should be mandatory - its quite essential.

Sure I'll be chatting to ya in the Unum lab at some stage.

You going 3rd year yourself?

DrZeuss

No 4th Year, the other side of the room.

RealistSpy

DrZeuss wrote: »

No 4th Year, the other side of the room.

That means you were in my second year class :O

DrZeuss

It does indeed