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Well, finally a new section!

We should celebrate and hopefully many of our compsci students or professional can bring thoughts into this section. =P
 
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Brief intro... im doing BscIT at UTS and im currently in my 4th year.
 

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BCompSc/B Arts at UOW. Second year.
My CompSc majors are Digital Systems Security and Distributed Systems.

Hi everybody. :)
 

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Me too.

Just followin suit. :cool:

B. Comp Sc / B. Creative Arts

That is, if you didnt see in my lovely sig. haha.

Hope to be asking lots of stupid (but related) questions here.

Cheers, Jerome
 

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yay a forum for the uni people who get accused of "playing computer games all day" :) I did CS, didn't like it, switched to IT, go IT yay!

On a different note, anyone notice how the universities are starting to deliver more practical/vocational CS and IT rather than academic theory? Especially vendor specific stuff.
 

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LeftrightOut said:
yOn a different note, anyone notice how the universities are starting to deliver more practical/vocational CS and IT rather than academic theory? Especially vendor specific stuff.
yep. it will end in tears. academics should not try to teach practical skills. companies who can hire graduate IT people and pay them less than brickies labourers should be able to commit to 3 to 6 months of practical training, which is all that is required. better than some pie in the sky academic teaching a dumbed down, incorrect and out of date version of whatever they guess is relevant to industry.

another reason is vendors often pay large sums of money to computing departments, which leads to bias. i know microsoft sponsor one or two staff members at macquarie and a research group, and have heard of similar dealings at usyd.
 

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i'm prolly counted as IT, but why no engineering section?

EDIT: no science either :s
 
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LeftrightOut said:
On a different note, anyone notice how the universities are starting to deliver more practical/vocational CS and IT rather than academic theory? Especially vendor specific stuff.
Note that this depends on the uni. Although this seems to be the case at UTS and USyd (based on conversations with friends), UNSW is still very much acedimic, not bowing to the hype of new stuff (no .net taught for instance)
 

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McLake said:
Note that this depends on the uni. Although this seems to be the case at UTS and USyd (based on conversations with friends), UNSW is still very much acedimic, not bowing to the hype of new stuff (no .net taught for instance)
UOW has .NET users group that sends spam :D
 

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LeftrightOut said:
yay a forum for the uni people who get accused of "playing computer games all day" :) I did CS, didn't like it, switched to IT, go IT yay!

On a different note, anyone notice how the universities are starting to deliver more practical/vocational CS and IT rather than academic theory? Especially vendor specific stuff.
UOW is starting to do this. In the past 5 years they have removed 2 subjects considered core by IEEE and ACM: computer organisation (CSCI131) and computer architecture (CSCI234).

I have only seen 3 unis in Australia maintain the original CS curriculum: Curtin (WA), UNSW and Adelaide.
 

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Bachelor of Science in Information Technology / Diploma in Information Technology Professional Practice

4th Year.


I have absolutely no idea who would want to employ me with my degree.
 

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fatmuscle said:
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology / Diploma in Information Technology Professional Practice

4th Year.


I have absolutely no idea who would want to employ me with my degree.
go work for google
 

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