UCD SCIENCE!!

BlandKitten

Then suddenly computer science!

'Tis a great course, but a lot of it is the same stuff just worded differently (plus so far not a lot of coding in second year).
Anyone else doing computer science in here?

Healium

BlandKitten wrote: »

Then suddenly computer science!

'Tis a great course, but a lot of it is the same stuff just worded differently (plus so far not a lot of coding in second year).
Anyone else doing computer science in here?

1st year, so much maths

desdman

Healium wrote: »

1st year, so much maths

Yeah,i know,but in 2nd year there isn't too much maths involved unless you pick a few of the tricky options in second year,so don't worry about it:)

Fad

BlandKitten wrote: »

Then suddenly computer science!

'Tis a great course, but a lot of it is the same stuff just worded differently (plus so far not a lot of coding in second year).
Anyone else doing computer science in here?

Datastructures is just the craic!....... >_<

I think we're just about to start into some actual coding stuff though!

rainbow kirby

Fad wrote: »

I think we're just about to start into some actual coding stuff though!

This is where people who barely passed CS in first year get destroyed. :pac:

Fad

rainbow kirby wrote: »

This is where people who barely passed CS in first year get destroyed. :pac:

YAY

Signed a student in Year X......

>_<

rainbow kirby

Fad wrote: »

YAY

Signed a student in Year X......

>_<

You're a decent coder though, half your class isn't at this point.

bigred100

BlandKitten wrote: »

Then suddenly computer science!

'Tis a great course, but a lot of it is the same stuff just worded differently (plus so far not a lot of coding in second year).
Anyone else doing computer science in here?

I "C", that's interesting.

ya-ba-da-ba-doo

anyone doin biology shtuff??

Physiology and microbiology here! 2nd year

**Timbuk2**

1st year BAFS - it's part of the science department, I swear!

Finding MATH10040 enjoyable and love Osburn's personality and style of teaching, but the problem sheet he gave us was very difficult, or at least in my opinion anyway.

MATH10050 is difficult. What we're doing at the moment is ok, but at the very beginning for the first week and a half or so, I was lost - I still don't understand anything about sets/maps/groups but homework has to be handed in on Monday! Unger explains things well though, and he's hilarious really!

It's early days yet, but I'm loving statistics so far. We haven't got into the real Mathsy element of it yet though, so I'm not basing my opinion on a full view of the subject.

Algorithmic Problem Solving is a lot of fun but I don't find it as easy as it's made out to be by some people - some people just seem to have a knack for solving problems easily. Hopefully I'll get better at them anyway. Henry is a legend!

Fad

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

1st year BAFS - it's part of the science department, I swear!

Finding MATH10040 enjoyable and love Osburn's personality and style of teaching, but the problem sheet he gave us was very difficult, or at least in my opinion anyway.

MATH10050 is difficult. What we're doing at the moment is ok, but at the very beginning for the first week and a half or so, I was lost - I still don't understand anything about sets/maps/groups but homework has to be handed in on Monday! Unger explains things well though, and he's hilarious really!

It's early days yet, but I'm loving statistics so far. We haven't got into the real Mathsy element of it yet though, so I'm not basing my opinion on a full view of the subject.

Algorithmic Problem Solving is a lot of fun but I don't find it as easy as it's made out to be by some people - some people just seem to have a knack for solving problems easily. Hopefully I'll get better at them anyway. Henry is a legend!

Fúck off back to Quinn :P

Improbable

Science - an enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the natural world.

Thank you wikipedia.

bigred100

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

1st year BAFS - it's part of the science department, I swear!

Finding MATH10040 enjoyable and love Osburn's personality and style of teaching, but the problem sheet he gave us was very difficult, or at least in my opinion anyway.

MATH10050 is difficult. What we're doing at the moment is ok, but at the very beginning for the first week and a half or so, I was lost - I still don't understand anything about sets/maps/groups but homework has to be handed in on Monday! Unger explains things well though, and he's hilarious really!

It's early days yet, but I'm loving statistics so far. We haven't got into the real Mathsy element of it yet though, so I'm not basing my opinion on a full view of the subject.

Algorithmic Problem Solving is a lot of fun but I don't find it as easy as it's made out to be by some people - some people just seem to have a knack for solving problems easily. Hopefully I'll get better at them anyway. Henry is a legend!

I will have a snickers one day!!!

**Timbuk2**

Fad wrote: »

Fúck off back to Quinn :P

The only time I've ever been in the Quinn building was during the open day. BAFS is mainly Maths so it's in the science centre. There's an odd bit of Computer Programming and Economics thrown in though.

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

The only time I've ever been in the Quinn building was during the open day. BAFS is mainly Maths so it's in the science centre. There's an odd bit of Computer Programming and Economics thrown in though.

One of my friends has already gotten two since the start of the module. It is so unfair - he's doing CompSci though and it's a core module for them. I'm just doing it as an elective and although I find it difficult, I secretly look forward to it all the time! It's a fun break from all the Maths!!

bigred100

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

The only time I've ever been in the Quinn building was during the open day. BAFS is mainly Maths so it's in the science centre. There's an odd bit of Computer Programming and Economics thrown in though.



One of my friends has already gotten two since the start of the module. It is so unfair - he's doing CompSci though and it's a core module for them. I'm just doing it as an elective and although I find it difficult, I secretly look forward to it all the time! It's a fun break from all the Maths!!

Your friends initials wouldnt happen to be AK would they...taking all the snickers in that class. Im in compsci too.

Fad

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

The only time I've ever been in the Quinn building was during the open day. BAFS is mainly Maths so it's in the science centre. There's an odd bit of Computer Programming and Economics thrown in though.

I know what actuarial science is :eek:

But yeah, soon, soon you will spend all (ie, you might have a class in there, and even if you dont, I will still tell you to fúck off back to quiinn just because I do science doesnt mean I have to make sense!)

**Timbuk2**

bigred100 wrote: »

Your friends initials wouldnt happen to be AK would they...taking all the snickers in that class. Im in compsci too.

Yes that's him! He gets them so quickly, damn him and his logic

Henry won't have any snickers for anyone else at that rate! Are you enjoying compsci?

Fad wrote: »

I know what actuarial science is :eek:

But yeah, soon, soon you will spend all (ie, you might have a class in there, and even if you dont, I will still tell you to fúck off back to quiinn just because I do science doesnt mean I have to make sense!)

Actually, in Semester 2 one of my lectures is in Quinn. So at least you have some justification in saying it :P - would be much closer to walk to than the science building. The place is like a maze with the construction! There was a chemical leak of some sort the other day and the lectures had to evacuated - mad alltogether!

BlandKitten

Fad wrote: »

Datastructures is just the craic!....... >_<

I think we're just about to start into some actual coding stuff though!

"Okay, here's a slide containing about 50 lines of code that you can't see because it's in such small font."
Four seconds later.
"So that's that, moving on..."

bigred100 wrote: »

I "C", that's interesting.

...Seriously? Seriously?! Ahh I've heard worse :pac:
Get ready for countless shi*tty jokes for the next few years, probably most by me :P

SmashingPilot

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Kinda shocked by the amount of physics students on here (including myself).

Might as well add myself into the mix. 3rd year Astrophysicist here. :cool:

Ruski

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

1st year BAFS - it's part of the science department, I swear!

Finding MATH10040 enjoyable and love Osburn's personality and style of teaching, but the problem sheet he gave us was very difficult, or at least in my opinion anyway.

MATH10050 is difficult. What we're doing at the moment is ok, but at the very beginning for the first week and a half or so, I was lost - I still don't understand anything about sets/maps/groups but homework has to be handed in on Monday! Unger explains things well though, and he's hilarious really!

I'm finding that Osburn started off very lightly with increasing difficulty while Unger went with the stuff nobody did in the start but now he's getting into familiar ground. I'm also glad to hear that I'm not the only person that finds Osburn's problem sheet impossible (bar first two questions). Also Unger's stuff is nearly all theory, and in turn the work that we have to do for him is theoretical while Osburn's stuff has computational examples, which makes the work that we have to do for him all computational.

Fad

BlandKitten wrote: »

"Okay, here's a slide containing about 50 lines of code that you can't see because it's in such small font."
Four seconds later.
"So that's that, moving on..."

Words fail me when it comes to her.

Ginja Ninja

So, uhm can I post in here? I'm a Ag. Science student and all >.>

Killer Pigeon

Ginja Ninja wrote: »

So, uhm can I post in here? I'm a Ag. Science student and all >.>

Well this is a science thread so it would be understandable if you didn't see many farmers around but seen as you in a course with 'science' in the title then you are allowed.

Killer Pigeon

I'm in the Ag building during the week for a Computational Science lab and there's always a crowd of feckless Ag-lads in there before the class watching bestiality porn, or whatever those farmers do, and it's so annoying. I'm there trying to figure out how to input a specific algorithm into Matlab to be prepared before class while they're there galavanting on about GAA, some new brand of tractor they saw in Farmers' Weekly or how they should utilise UCD's sewage system to make some sort of fantastic fertilising manure. Then during the class some of them burst in (even though there's a sign outside the door saying what time the computer lab is booked for), using some of the most unparliamentary language and carrying hurleys and sports bags and smelling as though they had just come out of a 'how to run a pig sty' lab.

/Unapologetic Rant

ya-ba-da-ba-doo

ugh.. why cant it be like first year again where u write up your labs in the lab!? Damn u 2nd year.. Grrrr

Killer Pigeon

ya-ba-da-ba-doo wrote: »

ugh.. why cant it be like first year again where u write up your labs in the lab!? Damn u 2nd year.. Grrrr

Grrr, I have to write a 1000 word essay every week. You swear it was Orts or something.

fillmore jive

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

I'm in the Ag building during the week for a Computational Science lab and there's always a crowd of feckless Ag-lads in there before the class watching bestiality porn, or whatever those farmers do, and it's so annoying. I'm there trying to figure out how to input a specific algorithm into Matlab to be prepared before class while they're there galavanting on about GAA, some new brand of tractor they saw in Farmers' Weekly or how they should utilise UCD's sewage system to make some sort of fantastic fertilising manure. Then during the class some of them burst in (even though there's a sign outside the door saying what time the computer lab is booked for), using some of the most unparliamentary language and carrying hurleys and sports bags and smelling as though they had just come out of a 'how to run a pig sty' lab.

/Unapologetic Rant

Its a bit weird that they have computational science in the ag building. All the matlab courses have been in the maths dept. computer labs up till now??

unknown13

I had a politics lectures in the science building, actually I have my constituional law lectures in the science building

Ginja Ninja

My only class in Ag is a business lecture, apart from that I live in the science hub.UCD timetables are just weird some times

Killer Pigeon

fillmore jive wrote: »

Its a bit weird that they have computational science in the ag building. All the matlab courses have been in the maths dept. computer labs up till now??

I know I think I should protest.