Monday, November 7, 2011
Computer Science Modules A Bit Weird?
Hi I'm doing a computer science course, and I'm concerned about some of these modules. For example, there's technology and change - all about philosophy and ethics. Then there's ICT, where we write out a spec. sheets for building our own computer (but not actually putting it together ourselves bizarrely). And there's systems ysis and design which is going to be taught every semester for the first two years and it's about drawing UML diagrams a lot. We have Java and C programming too but since I've done loads of it in my spare time there's no challenge at all. I'm now in semester two (first year) - the thing that concerns me most is that cles are often disruptive and people keep heckling the lecturer. They are huge cles too, so I'm wondering if I've made the right choice here - although it would be a shame to leave and go to another university as I've made friends here... I don't know what to do I have 400 UCAS points and the course accepts just over 200 but around half the cl here have come here straight out of school! Is that normal? Do you think it's worth looking at other universities or are they mostly all the same (except Oxford or Cambridge or whatever, maybe I expected too much from my course?) Anyway, if anyone is on or has done a computer science course let me know what you think about this, I like it here it's just that it seems to me this is going to be easy and boring, it's satisfying looking at A*s but will employers be turned against my qualification if it's from a university a little bit low on the league table? btw I'm trying to be a games programmer so obviously it's very competitive! It's actually a course in Computer Science with Games Programming and at least the games programming side of it is well taught and well funded.
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