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CAO: Where in Dublin for a computer programming degree?

  • 27-01-2009 09:19PM
    #1
    runswithascript
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,846 ✭✭✭


    I'm filling out my CAO at the moment and I have TCD as my first choice and UCD as my second but I've only really put them in that order because I heard they were good.

    Can anyone recommend any other colleges in Dublin or Maynooth for that matter to study computer programming and which order would you put them?

    I'm going through the CAO handbook and I can see courses in DCU, DIT and BIT among others but I don't know in which order to put them.

    Help please!


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  • #2
    Teferi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Teferi


    ITT has quite a good course. Maynooth's course is meant to be good and DCU's Computer Engineering (it's the same thing) is meant to be brilliant.

    This is only what I have heard from industry heads so Trinners and UCD folk don't jump me but people with CS degrees from IT's find it far easier to get a job because the courses in Trinners and UCD are more theory then practice and it costs the companies money to completely retrain a graduate from one of them.


  • #3
    Steve Higginson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Steve Higginson


    Teferi wrote: »
    This is only what I have heard from industry heads so Trinners and UCD folk don't jump me but people with CS degrees from IT's find it far easier to get a job because the courses in Trinners and UCD are more theory then practice and it costs the companies money to completely retrain a graduate from one of them.

    As someone who has a Computer Science degree from Trinity I can assure you it's not all "theory". I'm not even sure what exactly this distinction is that people make when they give out about CS and Engineering courses in Trinity. What I got out of 4 years was a well-****ing-rounded course in all aspects of Computer Science.

    So to the OP, I may seem somewhat biased when I suggest you go with the BA (Mod) Computer Science course in Trinity, but it's good. UCD's CS department don't seem that good from what my friends there have said, but I've heard good things about DCU so they might be a good second choice.


  • #4
    Teferi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Teferi


    Easy tiger.


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