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Computer Science Alternatives?

  • 18-10-2012 10:33pm
    #1
    fontdor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 531 ✭✭✭


    Hello everyone. OK So I am planning on doing Computer Science. My Guidance teacher said that to do pharmacy for example you can first do a 3 year course in science which need less points then do pharmacy. (As I wanted to do pharmacy before but now I find out that I have more interest in Computers). So just wondering is their any alternatives for getting into college/university for Computer Science?


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  • #2
    bain_triail_as
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭bain_triail_as


    The competition for CS not as stiff as for Pharmacy so why not in 1st Year at Uni go straight onto CS?
    Example of points needed at Trinity in 2012: Pharmacy = 570; CS = 450.


  • #3
    fontdor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 531 ✭✭✭fontdor


    bain_triail_as wrote: »
    The competition for CS not as stiff as for Pharmacy so why not in 1st Year at Uni go straight onto CS?
    Example of points needed at Trinity in 2012: Pharmacy = 570; CS = 450.

    I know yes . But I was just wondering out of curiosity whether there was other routes.


  • #4
    user.name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭user.name


    Most computer courses gone up like 50 points, so I'm guessing next year they will all go up to 500. I done a computer programming course in the summer, its a good course to get into but too many people think if they can work a computer they can do programming.
    A good route would be a plc if you aren't sure what to do.


  • #5
    fontdor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 531 ✭✭✭fontdor


    user.name wrote: »
    Most computer courses gone up like 50 points, so I'm guessing next year they will all go up to 500. I done a computer programming course in the summer, its a good course to get into but too many people think if they can work a computer they can do programming.
    A good route would be a plc if you aren't sure what to do.

    PLC? What exactly is PLC?


  • #6
    LostBoy101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭LostBoy101


    fontdor wrote: »
    PLC? What exactly is PLC?
    Post Leaving Cert courses which is a "back door" route to University.


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  • #7
    user.name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭user.name


    Its a post leaving cert course that you do for a year if you don't get the points for your college course


  • #8
    fontdor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 531 ✭✭✭fontdor


    Thank you guys and also do you have to do any end of the year exams or anything?


  • #9
    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    If the possible high points for CS in Trinity and UCD are a bit off putting, Computer Applications in DCU is every bit as good or perhaps even better than the CS courses at the "big" colleges. Points last year were 390 final round and shouldnt rise by more than 20 or 25 with the high number of places


  • #10
    areyawell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭areyawell


    There's plenty of computing courses, software engineering, general IT, Forensics, Computer Science,Applied computing, Computer engineering along with many many more.
    Don't be put off by level 7 courses either as they are great courses in computing and then can go onto level 8. Do not do a PLC course!.


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