Guy's and Girl's In Uni

[Ianpbaker]

Hi every one.

From the posts i've been reading, i've noticed that alot of you are at university. I graduated From Brighton university in the UK in Software engineering and now I am out working as A contractor.

Whilst at Uni, I found the course to be quite boring and not really anything to do with what I am doing professionally. I gained alot of the theory stuff, but apart from that not much else.

I was wondering what the rest of you think of your courses, if you think there any good.

Cheers and good luck


Ian

[Sam Finch]

My Course Sucks so far, I'm just finishing my first year Maths at Leeds, So Far it's all A level stuff, but It means I can do It and spend more time not doing it.

[Ianpbaker]

Hi Sam.

I had exactly the same problem when I did mine. I spent 90% of the time doing theory like SSADM(database building) and things like that, and 10% doing simple app work in Java and C++. Ok the theory was Important and it does occasionally help me now, but I wish they gave you more up to date programmimg skills.

But I suppose in this ever changing IT world, they teach you some thing that is Current, and by the time you finally get out, it's History.

Cheers Ian

Mine was pretty boring. It was too easy.

[Iain17]

I am on the placement year of my course, which is also Software Engineering.

The thing is that they have to teach you a lot of theory becuase of the fact the computing industry is moving so quickly. It is figured that as long as you know one language and the theory, you should be able to put this into practice in any language.

Though i wished my Uni had picked any language except F@#*ing Java.

[Ianpbaker]

Hello Iain17

I had To do F@#*ing Java As well, and it does suck Arse. Have you used Borland Jbuilder, I had to and to be Honest it was absolute shite. It tried to Look like a VB program interface but was Just plain crap.

All the best Ian

[Iain17]

I am afraid we were limited to F@#*ing Linux, so our deveolpment envirnment looked like notepad with a few colours, and a sort of Dos Based compiler. That F$%&ing compiler. Please don't get me started on that Fu@~'~ piece of sh$&* mutter mutter.

Comes up with 100 error, becuse you have forgot to Fu@~'~ put one little "}" somewhere.

[Ianpbaker]

Or One F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing missing ; that causes 100's of F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing errors. It makes me F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing ,F@#*ing mad.

[Ianpbaker]

22 F' Words. That Got to be some sort of record for this Forum. Sorry if I offended any one but java really does suck, especially Javascript that needs to be coded twice. One for IE and One For NS

I'm Off now to wash My Mouth with Soap and water like mum used to always say.

Ian

[Sam Finch]

Ian, You swear too much.

If you think java sucks, try F*~king Maple a language so bad it gets 5 out of the 7 naughty letters, it's great for solving maths problems, it can solve just about any equation in one step but the syntax is like a cross between Pascal and Cobol and it's 10 times slower than java and you can't do f&*£ing anything with it.

It's not like a real programming language it's actually a tool for doing maths but it's damn frustrating having to learn the syntax of a language that can't do anything exept solve equations and you can't compile and export it to other languages so all that power is wasted.

[Ianpbaker]

Sorry about the language Sam.
it's Just that I'm on my last week of my current contract with nothing to do and I am really starting to become bored and frustrated. And my boss has come up to me and had a go at me saying I should be doing this,that ans the other when I can't until some one else pulls his finger out his backside.

Once again sorry about the language, I was going a bit OTT.

[Iain17]

I warned you lot not to get me started. Especially on F&*^ing maths languages. I had to do a module last year called Formal F@£$ing Specification Using Z. Z is a formal mathematical modelling language and it is offically a royal pain in the arse To write up a piece of coursework in Z i had to learn another language similar to HTML. God i hate you Z.

If you think Z is bad though, my vote for the worst language ever, apart from F&@#ing assembler and binary, goes to Perl. I don't even want to talk about that.

[Ianpbaker]

My vote goes For worst Language goes to (with only one missing letter) F@cking ADA. It tries To be a Object Oriented Program Like C or java, But is even worse. I has to do a Semester's worth of work on it and My Goddam tree-loving hippee of a lecturer said it would be all the rage. Since finishing Uni, I have not seen one single job advertised for it.

How could you hate C??? C is the most powerful and flexiable language. Without C, you wouldn't even have VB to use because VB was made using C.

[Sam Finch]

I was actually addressing the 2 Ians issue rather that the swearing issue I swear Loads.

Does anyone actually subscribe to that theory that people only swear because they don't know enough words? I think that is the biggest F@#$%ng pile of Cr@p I've ever Heard.

I quite Like the Idea Of Assembler, I'd like to be able to use the _ASM Macro in VC++, I'm just learning C++ and being able to define your own data types is great, but ASM would be usefull for speeding things up doing the operators. Trouble is I don't want to start moving the stuff in the registers in case it changes thread or I don't put them back right.

[Ianpbaker]

Hi Megatron. I don't hate C, it was the first language I ever learn't and enjoyed it alot. I was saying that I hate F@cking ADA, which was trying to be a OOP like C But failing miserably.

Ian

[Icky Icky Goo]

Go get 'em tiger! :grrr: baby!

[Zaei]

Originally posted by
How could you hate C??? C is the most powerful and flexiable language. Without C, you wouldn't even have VB to use because VB was made using C.

I like C++ more then C, because C++ is teh c00l3st!

Z.

[Icky Icky Goo]