; COMP10{3A,4B} : The two compulsory introduction to programming courses. Taught using a mangled heap of [C] and [C++]. Many people believe this course should be taught in [Java]. Also has a concept side where CS topics such as logical operations, binary, basic sorting etc etc are introduced. 

 ; COMP123 __The Computing Experience__ : Do not underestimate the workload of this first year bunny course. It is very popular with BA students. This is a good thing if you are a male [ComputerScience] student. 

 ; COMP1{30A, 34B} __Programming {1, 2}__ : Similar to COMP103/104 but the focus is on Software Enginering rather than computer science. The major difference is that these papers have a lightweight introduction to formal methods and refinement of specifications. This course is taken by people wanting a BE in software enginering and scholarship winners. The COMP130 code used to refer to the paper Special Topics in Programming which is no longer offered. 

 ; COMP140 __Foundations of Computer Science__ : A lot of stuff that sounds cool, but isn't. 140 is compulsory. Most of the smartest people I know failed it. It is __unbelievably__ boring. If you can help it, don't go to any of the lectures, but go to all the tutorials. (Second opinion: this stuff is the closest you get to computer science (rather than programming) in first year. Learn this stuff the easy way or learn it later the hard way.) %%% %%% ''Overall lecture attendance was low (10 out of 150+ students per lecture!). Those that did attend fell asleep, and even the cameraman who was filming the lecturer fell asleep at some stage! Hopefully this paper has improved in recent years. -- MarcelVanDeSteeg'' 

 ; ENEL111 __Introduction to Electronics__ : Good paper, was a year long paper but now compressed into A semester. 

  

 !!Level 2 (Second Year) Papers 

  

 ; COMP223 __Information Discovery__ : This is a great course if you have better things to do than attend lectures. It has less workload than 123 and it would have to be impossible to fail this course unless you forget to turn up to the lab to collect your stamp every couple of weeks. 

 ; COMP224 __Computer Graphic Design__ : This used to be a great course when Steve Franks was still teaching it. He is not teaching it anymore, but you might still learn something if you are interested in computer graphic design. At the very least you'll get a pretty portfolio out of it. Note that there is no pre-req. for this paper. If you can handle COMP123 then you can do this paper. 

 ; COMP233 __Internet Applications__ : This course used to be 333 a couple of years ago. Now it's about PHP and MySQL and stuff. Sample exam question: "Write JavaScript code to pop up an ad window when you load the page." Seriously. ''Note that this course is not COMP333, it was introduced I believe in order to move some material from COMP333 to second year and to introduce more content in COMP333 in 2003.'' 

 ; COMP240 __Mathematical Foundations of ComputerScience__ : Once you've done 140 you'll know why you don't want to do 240. As the name says, take 140 and add maths. Covers lots of fundamental algorithms and math that you'll need umm...somewhere. Pathfinding, fast fourier transforms, oh yeah, all the good stuff. 

 ; COMP258 __Engineering Usable Systems__ : A follow on from 153. More VB practical programming. 

 ; ENEL211 __Digital Technology: Theory and Design__ : Good paper. Digital electronics. Quite easy and more enjoyable for a CS student than 205. 

  

  

 ; COMP434 - __Software Design__ : Split into two parts. Covers writing reusable software components. In 2003 the first half involved developing [JavaBeans] that interacted with the Weka project. The second half is an introduction to Microsofts [COM] model and writing components using the [VisualStudio] [IDE]. (Yay, VisualBasic programming in 4th year - not!) 

  

 !!Higher level courses 

  

  

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