Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Martin Keates" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Uni's.. again Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:27:38 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-4065.orangutan.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > I have to say the southampton course does look quite nice although all the > talk on different modules confuses me, do you get to choose say 3 from each > year or do you do all of them? > > I was looking at Manchester before alot.. still waiting for the prospectus > to come through tho! I went to Manchester (a few years back now...) and it was pretty good. I see they managed to get their 5* rating, at any rate. Back then the emphasis was on coding style rather than languages (they didn't teach C, for example) - I don't know how much that might have changed. Although I actually think I got the most benefit from the final year courses (which were pretty much all theory) in terms of applying them to real world coding (3D graphics, parallel programming, object oriented programming in particular). They have a good 3D graphics groups there (AIG) wot I used to work for, so get in with them if you want to do interactive VR and other game-like stuff. (um... they have a web page somewhere - probably http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk ). Mind you, if you pick Manchester you have to be aware that it's (the city) a bit smelly... :S Loads going on though... (I still live 'ere). Martin.