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| Midhir |
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| It is 'flavour of the month' in a way, it's a very large and bloated framework if you're building anything short of a full social networking app it's probably a bit over the top. But then if you learn Rails it's a synch to move over to Sinatra or a smaller framework for smaller apps. |
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| Decay |
| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:02 am |
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jazzer-pogrom wrote: here's a question for the graduates amongst ye. Is there much employment out there for coders in Ireland. I mean java, c# and c++, not web development as such.
What is the most used language at the moment, i.e what would be particularly beneficial to be experienced in when finishing college?
Currently in third year so not much left to go till work rears its vicious head again
I keep and eye on Jobs.ie to see what demand is like is different IT sectors. There always seems to be a few jobs floating around in Software Development and Programming. Biggest problem being that a few years experience on the job are needed for them.
I'm finishing my last year in WIT doing Multimedia Application Development, never have i seen course become so shit over the years! Feel like i've just learned the basics in everything. Course far far too broad and poorly constructed. Would like to call myself an expert in something by now. |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:19 pm |
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| 04325613 |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:42 am |
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Bane wrote: Any other programmers here? Day job or hobby? What languages/frameworks/processes do you use?
Doing my final year project at the mo in nuig; automatic content generation in games. Spending every waking hour java coding these days as its due end of march. Mainly just using collections for this. In some other projects this year i'm using/used CORBA, RMI, EJB/JDBC and a bit of VRML/Javascript, finding all those areas all very interesting, only really got stuck into it this year and 3rd yr after 6 months on placement mainly doing financial java programming with databases.
Enjoying what im doing now finally, although I'm predicting some near future sight-loss. 
Didn't realize there was so many programmers on here apart from all sirroco-jim's websites!
Bane wrote: A woman asks her husband, a programmer, to go shopping. "Dear, please go to the nearby grocery store to buy some bread. Also, if they have eggs, buy 6." The husband replied "O.K., hun". Twenty minutes later he comes back bringing 6 loaves of bread. His wife is flabbergasted. "Dear, why on
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| Hauk |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:56 pm |
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| Final year Computer Apps in DCU here. Hate the course. I'm writing a missile defence system in C++ for my final year project. It will probably not be as fancy as it sounds, but my project supervisor wrote some software for the European Space Agency satellites, so here's hoping. >_< |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:44 pm |
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My career advisor in secondary school kept at me to apply for the DCU B.Sc in Computer Applications. I was getting well hooked on Web design by that stage though, and there was a brand new honours B.Sc in Web Development starting up in Sligo I.T. so I bite the bullet and applied there instead. Best decision I ever made.
The DCU course, from what I've been told, has an extremely outdated syllabus with extremely outdated lecturers. That's one thing I admire about Institute of Technologies; they tend to keep more with the times. For example, the networking module I had in 3rd and 4th year wasn't just a networking module - it was a fully fledged CCNA certificate, and at no extra cost. I thought that was kinda neat. |
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| Hauk |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:49 pm |
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You're bang on the button. It's so outdated..
Lots and lots of theory, but hardly any practical stuff that would tie with industry(like the CCNA).
Just can't wait to finish at this stage.
Edit: And I was looking at the DIT final year modules. They look great  |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:51 pm |
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| Do you hate programming/networking/etc or just your college course?? Have you any idea what sorta career you want afterwards? |
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| Hauk |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:54 pm |
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Well, the title of the course is Computer Applications(Software Engineering), and there is not much actual software engineering involved. It's all compiler construction theory, and database theory. And I'm doing a module on operations research, and it's pure linear programming(which is pure maths) and markov chains.
I'm gonna move out of software engineering altogether after this. Looking at *possibly* doing a masters in astronautics and space technology. That's a big *if* though. |
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| Blizzard Beast |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:55 pm |
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| Keep an eye on EMC for IT Work.We only recently just took on a guy via ibec. |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:58 pm |
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| Now astronautics and space technology sounds cool. Where is that? A tiny, tiny part of me regrets not looking into the B.Sc in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics in Maynooth. Two of my biggest passions fused into one course - computers and biological science! I'm glad I stuck to Web Development though, even if I don't get to do much in the way of designing these days. |
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| Hauk |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:01 pm |
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Bane wrote: Now astronautics and space technology sounds cool. Where is that? A tiny, tiny part of me regrets not looking into the B.Sc in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics in Maynooth. Two of my biggest passions fused into one course - computers and biological science! I'm glad I stuck to Web Development though, even if I don't get to do much in the way of designing these days.
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/postgraduatestudy/astronautics/index.jsp
That's the one there. They have a pre-masters engineering year which sets you up for the masters, so I'm reading into that at the moment.
I'm sure there is a masters somewhere in computational biology somewhere! |
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| Bane |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:03 pm |
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| Aye, but I want my company to pay for my M.Sc and computational biology doesn't exactly fall into my job spec! I'm pretty confident I know what Masters I'll eventually get around to doing, but it won't be for another year or two anyway. I still don't miss college enough... |
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| Hauk |
| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:17 pm |
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Ah cool. College is alright at times  Definitely looking forward to getting out. |
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| 04325613 |
| Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:58 am |
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Hauk wrote: Definitely looking forward to getting out.
well sick of it at this stage too.. |
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