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CS4801 - Programming in Python

  • 11-09-2011 04:40PM
    #1
    weebelweebel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Anybody done this module that can give some feedback? For someone with no programming experience how difficult do you think it would be?

    Any information welcomed, thanks.


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  • #2
    Bloody Nipples
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Bloody Nipples


    4th year micro? :P I haven't done it but it's not supposed to be great. Just supposed to be irritating and irrelevant to anything else you do. I'd avoid it and do food safety or food biotech, guaranteed 1Hs.


  • #3
    weebelweebel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭weebelweebel


    Bloody Nipples wrote: »
    4th year micro? :P I haven't done it but it's not supposed to be great. Just supposed to be irritating and irrelevant to anything else you do. I'd avoid it and do food safety or food biotech, guaranteed 1Hs.

    Yeh. Food biotech meant to be hard enough? Doing food safety i'd say


  • #4
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    It's not an easy language to learn at first, but its probably one of the easiest to learn compared to Java. If you pick it up well and learn it by self learning as well as taking part in classes and assignments then it be no bother to you. If you find it hard to understand it, best to self learn and practise the programming on your own in your own time outside of lectures and labs.

    You probably study the theory side of it too as well as the programming side. One tip is to know the 'Towers of Hanoi' method, if statements and the differences of a function. Can be a bit of a pest and an an irrelevant language compared to others but its worth knowing.


  • #5
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Python, I found fairly easy to learn but I'd Perl experience first so there was an amount of cross-over in the skill sets. It is a handly scripting and data manipulation language to have, but in the IT industry it is more a tick-box on a job spec then a language that would land one a job, such as C++/Jaba.


  • #6
    Bloody Nipples
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Bloody Nipples


    weebelweebel wrote: »
    Yeh. Food biotech meant to be hard enough? Doing food safety i'd say

    Nah food biotech is piss easy but food safety is traditionally the exam people get their highest results in. If you want my advice do both, they're taught by the same guy, only differences are course content. Nice easy marks.


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