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; ENEL111 __Introduction to Electronics__ : Good paper, was a year long paper but now compressed into A semester.
!!Level 2 (Second Year) Papers
-; COMP201Y __Computer Systems__ : an introduction to assesmbly language, tought
using a full custom CPU and reference board. Used to use [MIPS] but was replaced to eliminate some nasties. Also covers basic compilation, [OS] principals, Memory Managment, Comms. Can be sat in 1st year by scholarship students. People doing graphics & multimedia wonder why they have to do this. Second best course you'll do behind 317 if you actually like computers.%%%
+; COMP201Y __Computer Systems__ : an introduction to assesmbly language, taught
using a full custom CPU and reference board. Used to use [MIPS] but was replaced to eliminate some nasties. Also covers basic compilation, [OS] principals, Memory Managment, Comms. Can be sat in 1st year by scholarship students. People doing graphics & multimedia wonder why they have to do this. Second best course you'll do behind 317 if you actually like computers.%%%
''[Geeks] love this paper, the other students hate it. If you've just done COMP103/104 then you might be in for a bit of a shock ;^)'' -- MarcelVanDeSteeg%%%
; COMP20{8A,9B} __Programming with Data Structures/Object Oriented Programming__ : These are the second year programming courses and carry-on from 103/104. You'll learn all sorts of disgusting things about pointers in 208, and see Java for the first time in 209.
; COMP219 __Database Practise and Experience__ : A course about Databases and VisualBasic. While this course focuses on databases and [SQL] it relied too much on your VisualBasic programming for it's assesment. Unfortunately, this course presents MS-SQL as the standard and fails to present any alternatives. 2001 was a bad year for this course (bad organization, theoretically impossible exam questions), it's probably changed since. (Second opinion: mainly obvious if you can program and have a sound understand of [SetTheory])
; COMP222 __Logic and Programming__ : This course (if it hasn't changed from 2002) comprises of two disjoint parts, they run at the same time, but don't appear to link up with each other at all. Part 1 is learning about logic, you spend your lectures listening to Edwin Hung's Philosopy with a bit of logic thrown in. Part 2 is prolog, during lectures I was able to observe the lecturer read out of the course book, and write some code fragments on the blackboard. Occasionally when you turn up for a lecture it is actually a test, so it pays to attend, or read your course outline. (Note: The [Prolog] part has a new lecturer so this may all be crap)
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Above and beyond these courses are the [MSc] and [PhD], which are viewed by the university as single course degrees.
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-Any other CS students feel free to add descriptions / experiences ADDToMe
+Any other CS students feel free to add descriptions / experiences AddToMe
