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Science in Computing (level 8 one)

  • 11-03-2014 10:52pm
    #1
    arcticthinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭


    Hey can anyone give any feedback as to how decent this coarse is?, how difficult it is? (i know the abstract parts of software engineering/programming are tough) and how are the lecturers? Whats the drop out rate? :D


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  • #2
    arcticthinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭arcticthinker


    "79 views" "0 replies" . Maybe just answer some of the questions ? or even one?


  • #3
    KonFusion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭KonFusion


    Try using the forum search functionality for similar threads


  • #4
    arcticthinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭arcticthinker


    You did not just noobify me.... Dammit ive been on forums for the better part of the last decade and I didnt think about that...


  • #5
    arcticthinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭arcticthinker


    Well now i have info about the itb scenario involving drop out rates, it turns it out around 170 students avg start off and then it slowly dwindles down to 110-120 by 4 year , this is from the computing professor i spoke to at the open day today, its mostly due to people coming in thinking the course is very easy and end up slacking off. The professor warned me that it can easily go up to 65 hours a week, with the overall course and work load and how/difficult or easy it is. According to the professor almost all grads find work in the field almost immediately.


  • #6
    KonFusion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭KonFusion


    arcticthinker wrote: »
    Well now i have info about the itb scenario involving drop out rates, it turns it out around 170 students avg start off and then it slowly dwindles down to 110-120 by 4 year

    I'd say even less.
    The professor warned me that it can easily go up to 65 hours a week, with the overall course and work load and how/difficult or easy it is. According to the professor almost all grads find work in the field almost immediately.

    True and true.


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  • #7
    arcticthinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭arcticthinker


    Konfusion did you do the computing coarse at itb? and you know the ITB merge next year, is it gonna be DUT? Dublin university of tech. I think thats what it is gonna be called but im not sure


  • #8
    micko4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭micko4


    Done the first year of the course this year..looks like there gonna be a massive dropout rate..
    its not hard though if you put the work in its easy..just a lot of kids straight from school not bothered..same as I was at that age..


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