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    Thankyou!! I finished my trials today though :).
    It was the most intensive/stressful 2 weeks of my life. I'm so glad I NEVER have to go through that again. Except for when the HSC comes. That's going to suck.....
    Good luck with your trials!! Study hard and remember to manage your time properly :).
    J
    Aren't you just a lovely person!
    I am stressed out, depressed and burnt out, but I'm still alive :)

    What about you my Spiralflex?
    brent012
    The "new" syllabus has quite small changes afaik anyway. I'm talking about all subjects, not just sdd baha. It's the reason i barely past or just failed each maths exam and only got a band 4 for 2u - just watching maths online the night before does not work lol.
    brent012
    Sounds like you are set then! I think you would be horrified if you saw my study habits in year 12, even during the HSC haha.
    brent012
    LOL i thought you were "last minute studying" on friday =P Geez you have plenty of time haha. Good luck anyway!
    RishBonjour
    Haha, I don't believe that man. I'm pretty sure you are killing your trials (I hope you are :))

    Me on the other hand - started off good - finishing badly
    I have 8 days till my first trail exam (eco)
    - still didn't do one eco past paper fully.. or my notes
    So today will be the last time I go out for the next few weeks. Need to start preparing for trials.
    brent012
    Then there are also IT courses and Information Systems but they are far removed from Software Engineering/Comp Sci in my mind because they basically do no maths and are more geared towards management and analyst positions. Ironically, they can get jobs as "Software Engineers" though if programming is what they want to get into. I just looked it up and they are probably eligible to do a Masters in Comp Sci too o_O Did that kind of answer your question? Theres an introductory computing course on youtube which is recorded lectures from UNSW, its the first Comp Sci subject you'd do and engineers do it too afaik. It's definitely worth a watch (after your trials!), want me to find the link?
    brent012
    A lot of Comp Sci students end up just getting a job as a programmer or something but there is potential for masters and phds in Comp Sci and getting into academic stuff - but im not sure that is neccesarily for me. But like i mentioned early Comp Sci Vs Software Engineering is very loosely defined so you can get very similiar graduate jobs and transferring between the two at uni shouldn't be too much of a problem, as far as i know with a degree in Software Engineering i would still be able to do a Masters in Comp Sci and go that route if i wished.
    brent012
    Haha, you have stumbled across a pecularity in current computing/IT courses offered at unis! Bassically there are many courses and they don't seem to be defined or regulated too well. Comp Science is a course/field and not a subject and it's not offered at UTS anymore, some people say Bachelor of Science in IT/Bachelor of IT is like it but it definitely isnt! Computer Science is a bit like Software Engineering (essentially what i am doing now) except it is much more theoretical and you dont do the more engineering related subjects. It's easy to branch off into more Software Engineering-style career afaik (and vice versa) but from my understanding people who stick with more computer science are concerned with computation theory and stuff. I wouldn't be able to explain any more but apparently there are "uncomputable problems" and stuff lol, from what i understand it can get pretty math heavy.
    brent012
    I see, might be worth having a go at the easier problems in the UNSW ProgComp and similiar competitions. Even in pseudocode.
    brent012
    Lol i've been "tutoring" at my old school's homework centre, students are really lazy and hardly anyone shows up =S. Coding for your major/something for SDD or just for fun?
    brent012
    Lol for software? Yeah. Never ended up selling it to any of the people who contacted me, even had a price and meet up spot planned with someone =P. I'm thinking of keeping it now though, looking at starting to tutor SDD soon.
    brent012
    You can get some really good, or really bad lecturers and tutors and i've found marking in tutes can be ridiculously inconsistent among classes. My tutor for Engineering Communications for example was quite a harsh marker and she did something really stupid in a group presentation, two people and I got 13/15 but the other three members only got 9/15 so she averaged it and gave us all 11/15. On the marking sheet 10 marks was supposed to be for our individual part and 5 for the team as a whole so idk what she was doing lol. In the end i missed out on a HD by 2 marks... There was a lot of other marks and half marks here and there throughout the semester i might have gotten with another tutor.
    brent012
    Lol, im sure you will do well in trials! Obviously social life at uni is completely different. But even on the learning/education side uni is quite different, i like it though. One downside is quite a bit of extra travel. Timetable depends entirely on the course you are doing and uni you are at, mine have been pretty good but for example if i did engineering at UNSW instead i probably would have had 5 days a week of full days lol. I once read that uni is like having the HSC twice a year, and it's kind of true in a way but theres not as much time building up for exams, not as many subjects etc. but on the other hand if you fail an exam you have to repeat it which wastes time and money.
    brent012
    Nice! I might still have my trials somewhere but im not very organised so its probably just sitting in a huge pile somewhere in the garage =S, so i'd have no idea where to look sorry. My teacher made kind of weird exams though, the short questions and multiple choice was largely selected from various independant/catholic trials (of that year and older) but then algorithms were heavily tested and above the usual level for hsc.
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