Uni - Second Year- Dilema....

azzerz · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:30

I'm looking to go to Uni after I finnish these last two years of college... is it really all group work?

So far in this course at college we seem to do everything in groups... and I can't stand it

Psyk · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:36

azzerz said:
I'm looking to go to Uni after I finnish these last two years of college... is it really all group work?

So far in this course at college we seem to do everything in groups... and I can't stand it

Well a lot of comp sci courses involve some group work, because it's very good practice for the real world. In the real world you can't really avoid working in teams, in any sort of software development anyway. Can't really comment on any other courses.

azzerz · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:40

I would probably be signing on for a programming course... I'm not really sure what is available

jcb33 · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:41

furnace said:
Programming's not a natural ability, it's learnt. I reckon I could teach anyone to program, unless they had learning disabilities. It's just a state of mind, but far too many people just can't be bothered to learn or understand and their eyes glaze over when people start explaining things to them.

[a comment whilst proof reading; the following bit sounds more harsh than I meant it to sound, sorry!!]

No offence but, to me, it seems like you're approaching this with the completely wrong attitude. The whole "Eww" and "But I suck at math" etc... I wouldn't want to employ someone who's ever had an attitude to learning like that. Frankly I get the feeling you just can't be bothered to learn them and you're using being bad at maths as an excuse... programming isn't so much about being good at maths - you write the programs to do the maths for you - but it's more about being able to think logically. It does involve understands maths, though.

If I were in your position I would be ecstatic - I'd love to have the opportunity to be properly taught C and its variants. But unfortunately I won't be going into uni due to the way things have panned out for me. As a matter of fact, I'm jealous that you have the opportunity to be taught how to program a game in C using OpenGL - I wouldn't pass that up for anything.

You need to have a good attitude about it. You should want to learn, but I think you are just trying to take the easy option rather than actually put some effort in. If you are honestly not interested in programming, then change course, but don't just opt for one option because it's easier or you can't be bothered to do more work.

I feel like you like the idea of game programming, but don't want to do it the hard way - you'd rather do the easy route of getting into game programming.

The fact I love to program properly (proper programming is much more fun that all this php/web stuff I do at the moment) probably gives me a pretty biased point of view.

While I would say your point is valid, I would disagree with it, I can do programing, and I can learn it, but I find it boring, and the thought of being stuck in a career doing it does my head in. I want to learn to create models, maps etc much more.

I admit the thought of programing in theory could be interesting, but still Its not what I want my life to be!

I have already proven, at least to myself that I am willing to learn, and I am able to do so, by going from knowing nothing, to winning an ward in Java programing.

I realy enjoy web design, I learnt HTML, CSS and basic PHP this year, and I think this is much more enjoyable than creating a program.

I do have a passion for learning, but it has to be something I enjoy for that spark to ignite, for example web deisgn I taught myself much more than was required and got a very good grade because of it.

I was the same when doing photoshop, and movie projects. I also realy enjoyed games design this year, creating my own small game using game maker. As well as taking up a part time french course as this is something I have wanted to do for a long time. etc etc

TheCoder · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:43

jcb33 said:
While I would say your point is valid, I would disagree with it, I can do programing, and I can learn it, but I find it boring, and the thought of being stuck in a career doing it does my head in. I want to learn to create models, maps etc much more.

I admit the thought of programing in theory could be interesting, but still Its not what I want my life to be!

I have already proven, at least to myself that I am willing to learn, and I am able to do so, by going from knowing nothing, to winning an ward in Java programing.

I realy enjoy web design, I learnt HTML, CSS and basic PHP this year, and I think this is much more enjoyable than creating a program.

Sounds to me you want to be an artist. May some sort of computer art course would be better. One where you get to use 3d studio max, maya, photoshop etc.

jcb33 · 28 Sep 2007 at 16:46

TheCoder said:
Sounds to me you want to be an artist. May some sort of computer art course would be better. One where you get to use 3d studio max, maya, photoshop etc.

Well I do get to use 3DsMax and Maya this year, and I enjoy teaching myself about photoshop anyway. My only real bug bear here, is while I love to be creative, I cannot draw any better than a 10 year old... Which would cause problems on a computer art course!

But is the reason I am thinking of changing course, as it is more about creativity and asset design, over programing