a question for all u computer scientists

daithimacgroin

can you remember,in your first programming module in college,
what did your lecturer have u do for a final exam?

was it all theory or did u have to write a program? e.g a web crawler

Reamer Fanny

daithimacgroin wrote: »

can you remember,in your first programming module in college,
what did your lecturer have u do for a final exam?

was it all theory or did u have to write a program? e.g a web crawler

A calculator in C or in Visual Basic we created software for a petrol station

Cork24

VB

Make you have a Video Store, Array of DVD's and a shopping Cart for buying

C++
Random Access Student Reg Form,

And C++ Year 2

A Link List with pointers for an AirLine, and a Stack, Quick Sort/Bubble Sort & Merge sorting the Array and then place them into a Random Access File,

Deliverance XXV

BSc in IT rather than Comp Science:

Java

• Invoice Software wih support for adding/managing invoices, suppliers and products etc.
  
• Calculator

Advanced Databases

• PHP/MYSQL frontend/backend of our choice. I went with an events management website that took in events and categorised them etc. Full management control, login system and main focus on security.

All fun learning projects - shame we didn't touch any C#/C++ languages though.

Edit: These were third year projects.

Creamy Goodness

ATM in C, i still believe it was better than the majority of ATMs out there today. it even didn't offer you £20 if there were no 20's left which can't be said for ATMs of these days

Steve

Ah, I'm too old to have learned this computery stuff in college...

First real app I wrote was a system for drawing electrical symbols in autolisp (AutoCad based script) shortly followed by a customer quote generation system that ran in interpreted basic in MSDOS 3 :eek:

It worked though.

Anyone remember GOSUB 100??

daithimacgroin

bump!

butts

It was written in Pascal on a VAX but no memory of what it was about

AwayWithFaries

It was Java anyway. Think it was something to do with Karl the robot and some general java. Written exam but not theory. Stuff like code snippets given then explain what they do and some question and we write a snippet of code.

Merrion

A "Zieman's catastrophe model" demo - basically the maths behind one of the reasons people can suffer heart attacks. I have no idea why we coded this - I think it was to show iterative programming?

srsly78

In compsci they like to give out lots of assignments involving dates (blah blah calculate if a year is a leapyear or not), and chess (knight's journey etc).

daithimacgroin

cheers lads,i'm studying python with udacity at the moment and and will soon do a conversion masters and was wondering how tough programming is in a introductory module in a uni here

WolfgangWeisen

Fairly sure it was a calculator in C.

Jim2007

Payroll calculations on a DEC PDP-11 in Basic (BASIC PLUS I think it was called), this was in 1981

conor.hogan.2

Ongoing programming assignments in C and then a written exam that was all code based, so writing C by hand or answering what this piece of code does etc

fcrossen

Detecting if a year is a leap year in FORTRAN77.
Pretty grim stuff.

Mmmm_Lemony

daithimacgroin wrote: »

cheers lads,i'm studying python with udacity at the moment and and will soon do a conversion masters and was wondering how tough programming is in a introductory module in a uni here

You'll be well able for an introductory module if you can get through CS101. In fact you will feel its going too slow tbh. As for a conversion masters I havent a clue, but for 1st year BSc Comp, everything is covered by CS101.

Skrynesaver

Stock control, order management and invoicing system in Pascal on a ICL machine running VME (horrible horrible OS), this was the project, the exam was mostly theory, with a "sum the area under the curve" problem to be written in Pascal as well.

Thinking back Pascal was a useful learning language...

chakotha

Linked lists in Pascal in 1989 - a written exam. Something to do with the college library data structure.

amen

Well I didn't do Comp Sci (Applied Physics) but my final year project was a basic neural net that was taught on known gas quantities in an atmosphere and then was presented with unknown quantities and it read the inputs from a gas sensor to determine the gas quantities. Also graphed the output and some other bits.

Written in C on a 386.

The_B_Man

Game of SNAP in C. It was multiplayer and all.
Then second year was VB and I made some sort of online networked card game, possibly snap again but I think it might have been some other basic game. It had a chatroom in it as well, and in the end I ditched the game part, and just gave me mates the chat client so we could chat on the sly in college, whether we were in class or the library. Handy for "Would ya look at the arse on that one??" type messages!!

Sparks

About the only exercise I remember from first year (Computer engineering, not Computer science) was writing a connect-four game (player -v- computer) in Pascal for the Mac and spending most of easter digging through the Apple manuals and style guides. Spent more time learning the boilerplate than working on the algorithm in the end. Learnt a lot though - like how until OS/X Mac system code was absolutely atrocious.

komodosp

I can't at all remember what it had to do but it was written Modula-2. (Or is it Modulo-2 ?)

SilverScreen

As far as I can remember from my end of year exam in first year (in Computer and Software Engineering) we had a written exam where we had to write basic programs and code segments in Java on paper. I can't remember what exactly we had to write. We had a little mini-project as well for the end of the year where we had to write a basic Yahtzee game. It was pretty much the same for second year too but third and fourth year was nearly all theory.