Programming Degree

[hyperian]

Lasy year and this year you can if you got 80%. But, I do not want to take the chance that they turn around after a few years and so sorry, typo error, you needed HG and no BSc for you.

When I first registered I had friends who got in the 90s for maths SG and were refused entry. Better to get 55% on HG. Although I think that the maths entry tests that you have to do when you apply might be able to count in your favour if you did SG maths but can still manage it at university level.

 

[Gnome]

That would almost always be the issue with most institutions.

Link

The link above is what the course is I did.

The subjects are vastly different to say, a BSc (IT)..

Looking at Tuks BSc(IT) it is strikingly similar except Tuks has more modules, if they covered more content I have no idea but the modules do look similar, they may have different names but it's the same work. If I had to do a quick comparison to SA universities I would classify it as follows:

* Business and Information Systems -> Informatics (INF @ Tuks)
* Computer Systems Architecture (Offered @ Tuks, called EOS)
* Computing Abstraction and Skills (Design Patterns? - COS121 @ Tuks)
* Discrete Mathematics (WTW115/WTW285 @ Tuks)
* Further Programming (COS110 @ Tuks)
* Introduction to Programming (COS130 @ Tuks)
* Problem Solving for IT (What that?)

* Communication Networks (COS 332 @ Tuks)
* Data Modelling and Database Systems (INF214 & INF261 @ Tuks)
* Object Oriented Analysis and Design (Covered in Multiple other COS modules @ Tuks)
* Operating Systems (COS 222 @ Tuks)
* Programming and Data Structures (COS212 @ Tuks)
* Structured Systems Analysis (Informatics, INF @ Tuks)

* Double Project (COS301 @ Tuks)
* Formal Methods of Specification (COS341 @ Tuks, also know as Compilers, Compilers is the introductory phase to Formal Methods)
* Network Management & Security (COS343 @ Tuks, AKA Security)

All these modules are mandatory @ Tuks for a BSc(IT), very similar. BSc(CS) won't have so much systems analysis (to the point of having nothing)

Overall I think the Universities only have a problem because there is no mandatory accreditation or professional body for Computer Science as there is for Engineering so it's near impossible to establish what has been covered and how well.

 

[iDenTiTy]

Looking at Tuks BSc(IT) it is strikingly similar except Tuks has more modules, if they covered more content I have no idea but the modules do look similar, they may have different names but it's the same work. If I had to do a quick comparison to SA universities I would classify it as follows:

* Business and Information Systems -> Informatics (INF @ Tuks)
* Computer Systems Architecture (Offered @ Tuks, called EOS)
* Computing Abstraction and Skills (Design Patterns? - COS121 @ Tuks)
* Discrete Mathematics (WTW115/WTW285 @ Tuks)
* Further Programming (COS110 @ Tuks)
* Introduction to Programming (COS130 @ Tuks)
* Problem Solving for IT (What that?)

* Communication Networks (COS 332 @ Tuks)
* Data Modelling and Database Systems (INF214 & INF261 @ Tuks)
* Object Oriented Analysis and Design (Covered in Multiple other COS modules @ Tuks)
* Operating Systems (COS 222 @ Tuks)
* Programming and Data Structures (COS212 @ Tuks)
* Structured Systems Analysis (Informatics, INF @ Tuks)

* Double Project (COS301 @ Tuks)
* Formal Methods of Specification (COS341 @ Tuks, also know as Compilers, Compilers is the introductory phase to Formal Methods)
* Network Management & Security (COS343 @ Tuks, AKA Security)

All these modules are mandatory @ Tuks for a BSc(IT), very similar. BSc(CS) won't have so much systems analysis (to the point of having nothing)

Overall I think the Universities only have a problem because there is no mandatory accreditation or professional body for Computer Science as there is for Engineering so it's near impossible to establish what has been covered and how well.

Decision Support Systems



I just wish there was one such standard accreditation.
Saves me having to travel +- 8000km to study.

 

[Swift-wp]

With regards to UWC winning that MS competition....lol...its an MS competition....enough said

Ya kick my degree to the curb. Regardless whether it is a MS competition or not, all the top Universities in SA usually take part and projects undertaken by there students are judged.

I competed in the Standard Bank IT challenge this year and Stellenbosch beat UCT by far and Stellenbosch wins it every year.

Actually I would have to disagree with that. UCT has won it thrice and then Wits. To my knowledge Maties has never won it, but come in second. The winners for this year have also not yet been decided as the final round is only on Thursday. I also took part this year and my team and I being flown up to Jozi on Wednesday for the next round of heats. Are you going to be there?

Either way I've heard the other Universities have training sessions and stuff for these competitions @ Tuks we just showed up for the competition.

That would be Stellenbosch and UCT. They always have programming practice sessions for these competitions, something that we don't really do. The Maties teams came to us this year and last as the competition was being hosted by us. I remember spending my Friday afternoon installing Java, Eclipse and all the other compilers for the various languages.

It's a old ass P4, campus internet is pathetically slow and we had to use our OWN bandwidth (Tuks only provides 200mb's for the ENTIRE YEAR per student) in the competition.

Serious? I would expect Tuks to have better PCs in there labs. In the lab we used for the competition (which is used to teach computer literacy to some of the 1st year B.Sc students) we have quad core Sun machines. 200mb? That's like nothing. We have unrestricted internet usage on campus, which explains the abuse by students. LOL

They should seriously provide a standard platform specification for these competitions, down to what operating system you have to have and exact configuration.

They do. Standard Bank forwards the Universities that are taking part a list of what should be installed, eg. Java, VB, Eclipse, C/C++.

 

[semaphore]

woah this feels like a geek fest in here, im starting to feel all dirty.