College Notes or Past/Sample Exams

Cork Boy

Hi Folks,

As a self studier of programming, I'm eager to find out what I need to know to put myself at least on an equal footing as a college grad.

In Jan 2013 I made the conscious decision that my current career wasn't for me as I had always regretted the .com bust of the millenium swaying me away from CS Courses on my CAO form (notably BIS at UCC).

Anyway, like a gob****e I chose BBS and then confounded that decision by choosing marketing as a major.

So as of Jan 2013 I've been self studying via Coursera & Udacity amongst others as I am not in a position to return to full time education.

I know without the certificate I'll need a good portfolio but I don't even know what kind of level of competence would need to be on show...

So... would I be completely taking the mick to ask anyone if they have access to sample papers or past papers to pm them to me?

a fat guy

If you're just talking about programming, then you should know that the college I go to doesn't have programming tests, we do Continuous Assessment for those modules instead.

CA is usually based on a book, and our first three years of Java were based on Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 days. Ironic title!

In fourth year, we learned Rails with Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial 3 (A brilliant book by the way, I genuinely enjoyed it) and it gave us an easy introduction into Rails.

I personally think you'd benefit a lot more from books and trying out some courses on codeacademy, you don't really need exam papers. We only had exam papers for database and business-style modules.

amen

Which college are you at?

deconduo

All of trinity's exam papers are available here:

http://www.tcd.ie/Local/Exam_Papers/summer_nonTSM.html

Just look for the Computer Science course.

Cork Boy

Thanks everyone!