Software Engineering / Computer Science+Honours / Software Engineering + Commerce (1 Viewer)

[Starcraftmazter]

I've read all the stuff everywhere, and I still can't decide

Halp.

Is the commence add-on for seng useful for anything other than making more money? What kind of jobs would follow?

What's so hard in the 3rd year seng workshops which makes people fail?

With compscience, it's possible to choose all electives to be computer subjects, right? (apart from general ed.)

 

[sunny]

What's so hard in the 3rd year seng workshops which makes people fail?

From what I understand:
- its group work, so you might have dodgy group members
- subject itself isn't all that exciting

With compscience, it's possible to choose all electives to be computer subjects, right? (apart from general ed.)

Yes you can, except in first year and maybe some of second year because there aren't any COMP electives you can do as a first year. And in second year you don't have the prerequisites to do most of the COMP subjects yet.

 

[Starcraftmazter]

Yes you can, except in first year and maybe some of second year because there aren't any COMP electives you can do as a first year. And in second year you don't have the prerequisites to do most of the COMP subjects yet.

So what can you pick instead? Any easy stuff?

PS. Are open days any good for anything?

 

[PoP 'n' Fresh]

you can pick any subject in any school as long as you meet the prereq's.
you do 1921 or 1927 in second sem 1st year. they allow you to do a lot of 3rd year subjects in 2nd year... pretty much what I did

Theres tons of easy stuff, but its not worth it; you end up so damn bored (i.e. don't do INFS. experience says its terrible)

open days = waste of time

 

[ace]

So what can you pick instead? Any easy stuff?

PS. Are open days any good for anything?

Just do what you wanted to do originally. i.e. Seng/Comm.

If it's not for you, you can easily transfer to CompSci/Comm after one semester. Or if your marks at Uni are high, maybe even transfer to CompSci/Law.

Just saying, try it out. You can always switch.

 

[chris_c28]

What's so hard in the 3rd year seng workshops which makes people fail?

Where did you hear this? I don't think people fail 3rd year SENG THAT easily. By 3rd year, if you survived your first 2 years of COMP and SENG and know how to program well, you will survive 3rd year SENG.
I have only one advice, i.e. get to know your cohorts, form a good team and work together.

 

[grimreaper]

Actually, the 3rd year first semester seng subject (SENG3010) has a very high fail rate. Of 12 teams last year, only 7 passed the subject. However, any teams that pass that will usually end up passing seng3020 as long as they put the same amount of work in

 

[Starcraftmazter]

Damn guys, forgot about this thread. Thanks for the replies,

Just do what you wanted to do originally. i.e. Seng/Comm.

Just saying, try it out. You can always switch.

Yes I could, however softeng and compsci are almost identical in the first year, and are in the first semester (if I remember right), so I'm not sure how I could decide to switch early on.

then again if you are contemplating commerce in the first place, it means your mindset is a total mystery to me so maybe you will like seng/commerce

The main reason I wanted to do commerce, is for $$$$$. Seeing as how I had the UAI for it, it seemed like a waste not to do it. I did a commerce elective in years 9-10, seemed alright, got good marks.

Where did you hear this? I don't think people fail 3rd year SENG THAT easily. By 3rd year, if you survived your first 2 years of COMP and SENG and know how to program well, you will survive 3rd year SENG.

Heard "horror stories" about people finding the workshops very difficult and such. However I've never failed at anything before, and it's doable, so I'm willing to give it a shot.

I have only one advice, i.e. get to know your cohorts, form a good team and work together.

Thank you.


After doing a lot more thinking, talking to people I know, and research, I decided to stick with software eng + commerce, and obviously got it, so yeh.

Thanks for all the replies.

 

[ace]

Good stuff.