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**First Years 2013-2014**
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Corvo Attano wrote: »When ever we find out where your gaff is :pac:
I don't know where it is yet
If I dont make it, have one..without me :rolleyes: 0 -
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Corvo Attano wrote: »When does computer science start anyway
And what is this Corrib village RA programme?
Here's the timetable for first year anyway. Ye may start the Monday, ye may not. On our first week we showed up to lectures but most of them weren't on. The nicer lecturers will actually give you notice of when they will start.
If any Computer Science folks have anything to ask about the course, shoot me a PM - just finished the course in May
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reap-a-rat wrote: »If any Computer Science folks have anything to ask about the course, shoot me a PM - just finished the course in May
I will hold you to that :P0 -
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Yeah I don't have any of my first year assignments anymore, if that's what you be after... :P Ah no seriously though, I was full of stuff I wanted to ask but felt was too stupid to express when I was in first year - if there's anything at all that you want to know about the course or about the college or whatever, I'll do my best to help you out!
Just a mention too - as I said, I finished up the course in May and I left with a bunch a classmates who I'd consider better friends than almost everyone I went to school with - dunno were we lucky with the group or what but such a sound bunch of people and I'm delighted I had the pleasure of meeting all of them and knowing them all now. Make the most of it
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reap-a-rat wrote: »
If any Computer Science folks have anything to ask about the course, shoot me a PM - just finished the course in May
I thank thee for your kind assistance!
Is it worth actually buying the textbooks? I'm debating with myself at present.
What parts of the course did you enjoy the most?0 -
The RA's organise like, event's and stuff and in return they get money off the accommodation.
I lived there last year and didn't go to one event, like movie nights and all that but sure, meh. Why do that when you can drink
So I can't really tell ye much about it other then that you have to organise stuff and you get money off in return.
If ye want craic but aren't in Corrib don't worry. You will meet loads of people in your course (unless your in Arts, it's meant to be hella hard to meet people) or places like Gort na Coribe, Dunaras, Cuirt, Dun etc etc, plenty of student accom to choose.
The thing is that Corrib is more or less exclusively first years whereas the likes of Gort will have 2nd and 3rd years. I'll be in Gort next year (2nd Year)
Anyone doing Civil Law by the way?0 -
Corvo Attano wrote: »Well lets see:
Whats the books situation?
How much is programming/maths work/ so on
Whats the Male:Female ratio :pac:
There's no need to buy a book for anything. I have one book from my whole time there, and that was given to me in third year by one of the lecturers who was only delighted to offload books to us. In final year I did loan a few books out of the library but there's always plenty available if you happen to need them. In general, the best thing for Computer Science is the StackOverflow website, to be honest! The internet in general is the biggest help you'll have.
The course seems to have loads of Maths in first and second year; there are a fair few modules but as you have the option of doing pass, if you feel weak at Maths its a great help. I'd highly recommend going to maths tutorials, even if you skip lectures here and there - it's where you'll actually figure out what the point of the modules is!
There's a bit of programming in first year, however its not too intensive and it starts with the assumption that everyone knows nothing. So that's good. I'm not sure how it's taught now, but in the past we used a crappy little program to get us used to the concepts down before we got stuck into a proper language (C at the time). Progress is fairly fast so I would try my best to keep up even if it seems simple at first - from one week to another you could end up completely lost just by missing out on one crucial concept. Again, StackOverflow will be your saviour for programming (and other stuff!)
Male:Femal - for our year, we started as 49 with 5 girls (myself included). Finished up with 23 people, 3 girls. 1 of those we picked up in third year, so 2 originals. Year behind me has 3 girls, too. Not sure after that. Girls always far outnumbered, though. Which may be good or bad news, depending...Found This Fork Sir wrote: »I thank thee for your kind assistance!
Is it worth actually buying the textbooks? I'm debating with myself at present.
What parts of the course did you enjoy the most?
I mentioned the book thing above
I loved the maths in first and second year, and algorithms in first year was good too. Logic in second year was very interesting. Really liked databases too. To be honest, I thought 4th year was the most interesting, but ya'll will have to get that far before I'll tell any more Some of the time you will be thinking, "What the feck are we doing this for?" but more often than not, it will actually raise it's head again in a far more important way. There's links everywhere. I realised a lot of them when I went on placement in third year.
Why did ye pick Computer Science, can I ask?0 -
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reap-a-rat wrote: »There's no need to buy a book for anything.
I thank thee greatly!reap-a-rat wrote: »The course seems to have loads of Maths in first and second year
What's the story with higher maths vs pass maths do you know? Like, do many go for higher? Are the maths classes linked in with the classes for those doing maths degrees?reap-a-rat wrote: »I realised a lot of them when I went on placement in third year.
Where did you go? What other places were there?reap-a-rat wrote: »Why did ye pick Computer Science, can I ask?
I've always liked maths as a subject and how it's very logical, and I just have an interest in computers really and I'd like to learn how programming works. That said, I know absolutely nothing at present really
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Corvo Attano wrote: »Cause I always envisaged my self doing something computer based and I want to know how we have come from DoS to what we are at today. And maths is cool as fúck.
I wanted CS originally but stupidly put down Law 1st because of Suits.
Turns out I LOVE law 0 -
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iamanengine wrote: »I wanted CS originally but stupidly put down Law 1st because of Suits.
Turns out I LOVE law
It's funny how many people actually put law down because of suits!0 -
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Found This Fork Sir wrote: »I thank thee greatly!
What's the story with higher maths vs pass maths do you know? Like, do many go for higher? Are the maths classes linked in with the classes for those doing maths degrees?
The maths for comp sci is the same as Science maths for first year and there's some crossover with both science and arts then for second year. They've changed the structure of the degree slightly from my time - if you choose higher maths, you have an option in third year of choosing a more maths focused stream. If you choose pass, you can't do those maths in third year. So that's the benefit of higher - more options in third year.Found This Fork Sir wrote: »Where did you go? What other places were there?
I went to Deloitte (my anonymity on this is already shot from years back, so I don't care if folks know who I am!). They're known as Big 4 accounting firm, but they have a fast growing Technology Integration department - basically they do a lot of consulting work, i.e. a company will hire Deloitte to build a new system for them or upgrade something or whatever, because they lack the skills themselves. There were loads of places - IBM, Fidelity Investments, Storm Technology, Cisco, ESB, Attachmate, Bank of America etc etc - it's not just your big name IT companies that need IT people.Found This Fork Sir wrote: »I've always liked maths as a subject and how it's very logical, and I just have an interest in computers really and I'd like to learn how programming works. That said, I know absolutely nothing at present really
No need to know anything - a willingness to learn is the most important attribute, in my opinion. Logical mind is a good thing to have. Noble reasons - I'm delighted you didn't say "I want a job after college, so I picked CS". I would have lynched you.Corvo Attano wrote: »Hows the transition of secondary school maths to college?
We didn't have a maths stream option when we started, so there was no benefit to picking higher level over pass except probably a tougher exam. So I did pass in college. I had done HL up til Feb of LC - I only dropped it because it was taking up way too much time and I didn't need it for the course I wanted, so I dropped to pass. I did breeze through pass, got an A1 - left the exam hall as soon as we were allowed to coz I had it done so quickly, so I was fairly good at maths and I still really like maths. Pass maths in college I found easy. However, a lot of folks in my class weren't strong at maths and struggled a lot; it was the most thing that people failed on in first and second year. I think the two of you should be OK with maths though, seeing as ye like it. Some madmen lecture in it, too. Great craic! (second year, I think).
I hope all this stuff is coming out OK. I'm still asleep. Work won't be happy when they find out
Oh yeah, that's another thing actually; I'm doing a Masters next year so I wanted Summer work here in Galway (Deloitte would have had me back but I wanted to stay in Galway and they're in Dublin) - there's a lot of internships floating about if you look hard enough. I managed to get one pretty easily in the end, I got sorted by March in a software company so I was pretty much using my degree straight away when I finished - that really is a positive with the course. From about second year, try and get a few weeks experience - the department itself often offers a few weeks paid Summer work in some research area that would really help in getting placement in third year. Even helping out with Summer Camps is an option.
Are ye getting excited about starting? I can't wait to find out how many of ye there are - the 2008 intake was the lowest in years, but it's been on the rise since I started in 2009. Last year had over 60 I think.0 -
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Classmates!
I think we can register online from tomorrow, read it somewhere on the site and there meant to be posting out stuff too
Yep, information on registration for first years is here.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/registration/student/new_undergrad.html
And here,
http://content.yudu.com/A1os2c/Regengish/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=0 -
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Hey all, first year Arts student here. Stupidly didn't put down Psychology on my CAO, which means I'm now going to try and get in through Arts. Does anyone know people who have done this? I'm all aflutter.
Also, I'm living in Galway so if anyone needs a place to crash after a night out, gimme a pm. I'm harmless, I promise. 0 -
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