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[vi9ilante]

Hey guys, in lecture today, the guy pulled out that overhead and said 'if you're doing any of these courses, then u shouldnt be doing COMP115..." did i hear him right? i thought the opposite was sed yesterday?-ppl on that list was suppose to be in COMP115. i'm doing actst/eco

 

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aren't actuarials doing comp155 instead??

 

[Elo]

no, acst ppl are now doing the easy version comp115 course with a french dude or the harder comp125 (if u are really smart)

vi9ilante, i think u heard him right however if u are doing an acst subject and u are involved in comp115 and do prefer it over comp125 and u did go to the right lecture then don't bother about what is written there.

i think this should be valid since i did comp115 last yr.

 

[:: ck ::]

i wanna do 155 now cause it seems better than 115.. faster pace is the only difference right? but same times for exams/assessments and exactly the same exams as 115??

 

[vi9ilante]

yeh academic adviser told me to do 155, i know my comps, but didnt do any previous comp learning in high skool at all. thought 115 was easier, thats why i chose it, but if theyre saying its pretty much the same as u mention ryan.... *shrugs* plus i cant understand the lecturer -_-

 

[redruM]

you will be fine if you have done some sort of programming before.

 

[Supra]

yeh the lecturer is hard to understand in 115, the 125 ppl have the french guy...i guess im gonna have to teach myself programming, even tho ive neva done it b4

 

[redruM]

people seem to be confusing 125 and 155?

155 is the accelerated version of 115
and 125 is the subject you do after 115

comp115 is pretty easy. you just need someone who knows it to explain it to you. its a very logic based subject.

 

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i'll help you Supra if you want(like telling u the basics and tips&hints of passing the unit)

i did Comp115, can't say i aced it, but after doing 125, 115 is like easy

 

[kunny funt]

i got the older purple C++ book, has the new one got anything drastically upgraded and newer in it?

Can i use the purple + greenish one and get thru comp115 ??

it says published in 2002 for the purple one.

 

[flamin']

comp is prob one of the most useful things you will learn in your actuarial course. all actuaries use a comp - and most use some sort of program like profit, axis or moses, so its good to get a high level of comp knowledge i think.

 

[:: ck ::]

hmm im in comp155 now.. from fob indian to fob chinese

 

[Supra]

LOL u cant escape the fobs, curry in 115, chinese in 155....and a french guy in 125...ryan has sort of convinced me to do 155, but im a little worried coz ive neva done programming b4, but i study a lot and am finding 115 easy and sort of slow (plus i h8 hte lecturer)...do u guys think itd b too late to change? wud yall advise me to change to 155 even tho ive neva done computing b4?

 

[:: ck ::]

its never too late, your an actaurial student so he'll let you in instantly... i think minimum requirement for 155 is like 90 uai lol...

we didnt go through much, turst me this is heaps better it's like a classroom for our lectures and he goes at a reasonable pace (as opposed to comp115 talkin about history of computers for 1 hour which is like hwat? 5 slides? hahaha)

 

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the history of computers

hmm, i remember last yr's MC there was like 4questiosn of out 30 that was based on that topic

 

[:: ck ::]

fark i didn write any of the history stuff down cause he didn tell us that we dun get lecture notes until AFTER he changed the slides..... grrrrrrrrrr

 

[redruM]

dun worry about that stuff too much. start learning the actual programming.

hey jimmy, how was 125? compared to 115? do you learn a fair amount of new stuff, hard?

 

[:: ck ::]

yea ive started the programming already im ahead of class by heaps.. lol.. the 4-5 marks for the test on history of computers may be the difference between getting a D and Cr .. or D and HD .. lol.. so that's why ima worrying =)

 

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rahul: eh, the stuff you learn in 125 isn't that hard, i mean i got the hang of it pretty easily, the only worry was the assignment

compare to 115, 125 assignments seems a lot harder, i spend around 2wks doing them where as for 115 assignment i spend probably max. 4days doing them

 

[redruM]

i might do it for my elective next semester...i dunno.

how hard to D it?

i got 69 in 115 from just high school knowledge. hardly did much work, except when shit was due. i want to do 125 as an elective because i find it interesting. but still want to maximise gpa.