Re: The smartest band in the world?


"White Spirit" <wspirit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Grinner wrote:

Some business degrees allow an extra year for top students to attain
first class honours if they come close in their final year, the b. sci I
did was four years, no extra year. I got through with a 69% weighted
average, just scraped 2nd class :-). Back then in the olden days, Sun was
the next big thing and the web was in it's infancy and COBOL a core
subject, so I've had to do post grad subjects to keep up in some areas,
don't know if I'll finish a master's. Too long in the tooth, now.

I'm glad C and C++ are still in use as not many people graduating today
have done these subjects. I picked it up along the way as everything is
pretty much Java taught now, although I did my final year project in C#
using an open source .Net environment.


It's surprising C wasn't taught considering everything from the Unix shell
to Java has connections with C. I'd imagine anyone looking a for a web
programming career would need a rudimentary unserdtanding of C, the shell
and Unix/Linux environments. I've written CGI's in the Bourne shell. C++ as
far as an OO language is concerned was eclipsed by small talk there for a
while, there was another language called Eiffel - but it too died in the
arse - like Sybase when Oracle took market share. Eiffel wasn't a bad
introduction to OO though - no pointers and headers files like C++, I dont
think an understnding of pointers is a necessity for OO design and
prototyping, which that language was particularly useful for.

I doubt a lot of the functionality of Vb (VB .net now?) is used by a lot of
programmers other than the interface classes. Java as a derivative of C++
is easier, again no headers and pointers and you only use single
inheritance, which doesn't mean any OO client/suppiler relationships won't
tie your head in knots as a programmer, though.

Did you touch upon Perl, pattern matching or regular expression?

People who have to retake an exam have their maximum grade for that
module capped at the bare minimum pass mark. People who fail more than
two individual exams in a single year are subject to expulsion.

Geez that's harsh, I think they'd only be on probation here.

I don't think the university follows through with it. You really need to
pull something big off to get chucked out :) People at another university
not too far from me have been caught cheating and completely got away with
it because the university didn't want the legal action and any possible
publicity.
We have campuses packed with full fee paying overseas students, who cheat
like crazy and pay up front. A lot land here unable to speak a word of
English, enough said.

Going to do a master's? I'd recommend working and doing it part time, and
getting your employer to pay for it, though it takes a huge chunk out of
your social life and all you seem to do is eat sleep and drink IT and
assignments.

I was thinking about it, or perhaps a PhD, but I'm not looking for a
research based career so I'm not sure it will help me in the field I want
to go into (software development).

It's good to have C under your belt then, the key to them all really, like a
sound knowledge of SQL.


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