Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Rikki Prince" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Uni's.. again Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:10:54 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pc-62-31-230-115-ba.blueyonder.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 "Chris Wallace" wrote in message news:ag6gjv$20q25@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > Ok, if i want to go for a BSc COmputer Science course which uni's are good > for programming? Alot I've seen seem to cover absolutely everything on > computers which isnt neseseraly what i want! > Where did you lot go and did you like it? What did u have to do in each > year? plz help! In case you haven't seen it, here's the Times' table of top unis for Computer Science: http://www.times-archive.co.uk/onlinespecials/education/computersci.ht ml Your best bet is to pick a few (probably based on the grades you expect to get - maybe 2 you'll only be able to get into if you improve a lot, 3 you'll get into if you get your expected grades and 1 in case you drop below your grades - well pick more than 6 so you can whittle it down to 6. You could pick based on location and other aesthetic things like that, to start with) and look at the sites for the Computer Science departments, or the online prospectuses. They should tell you exactly what modules and lectures you can expect in each of the years. Look at them all and underline of highlight the bits you're interested in (3d computer graphis, AI, user interfaces, maybe even computer recognition etc) and see which one offers most of what you like. I can't offer you advice from experience of a course, as I'm going this October, hopefully to Southampton (if not, to Essex and their AIBO robots :) I mainly picked the top few unis on the list, as I expected to get AAA, then picked a few unis in case I got lower grades, but it turned out I didn't get any offers from the top unis (didn't even get an interview at most - only at Cambridge, where I got into the pool, but no further :( ), so I ended up with offers from Southampton and Essex. Southampton's improved even further from last year (from about 10th to 6th in Comp Sci) so hopefully I'll get into a good up and coming uni. Southampton was probably the only course I picked mainly based on the course content, as it was getting close to the Oxbridge deadline, and I had to pick my final 6, and I'd picked 4, and almost decided on Essex, and I was left with one place, and I was deciding out of Nottingham, Southampton and Exeter (and a few in the same league, though I didn't really like where they were located etc), and after looking at the course outlines, I picked Southampton. They seem quite code orientated there - the bloke who interviewed me had hundreds of Learn 'This-or-That Language' in 21 Days type of books and talked about how they operate a helpline for students to call if they need help with their coding (should be fun trying to bamboozle them with talk of PS2 Assembly... ;) I'll be able to tell you a little more in October, when I'll have a better idea of the course (though I won't know much more by that time), but that may be too late for you, depending on when your college/VIth form make you return your UCAS form (if you're applying to Oxbridge it has to be in by 15th October anyway, I think) Rikki