| thatgraemeguy | mornings | 06:35 |
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| dlPhreak | Greets | 06:46 |
| Kilos | morning everyone | 07:38 |
| pieter2627 | morning all | 08:01 |
| barrydk | Morning everyone | 08:02 |
| Kilos | hi pieter2627 barrydk Cryterion and inetpro | 09:21 |
| Kilos | and thatgraemeguy | 09:21 |
| Cryterion | Hiya | 09:21 |
| thatgraemeguy | 'lo | 09:22 |
| pieter2627 | anyone have any experience of studying at Unisa? | 09:37 |
| MaNI | yes - though its probably somewhat outdated by now | 09:58 |
| MaNI | I mean I last studied there in 2008 - is there something specific you wanted to know? :p | 10:00 |
| pieter2627 | mainly opinion on their CS course and service | 10:04 |
| MaNI | there service is not the greatest, though ideally you probably shouldn't have to deal with them much | 10:06 |
| * pieter2627 observes that they may not know email has a reply feature | 10:09 | |
| MaNI | I found the CS course decent, in that it had a lot of the right subjects etc. - though I think what you get from it depends a lot on how much you put in as a person - I think if you focus on the exams and assignments only it is possible to come out without learning as much as you should have, if you 'play around' a lot with doing your own stuff on the side you can do well | 10:09 |
| pieter2627 | MaNI: overall did the material seem up-to-date? | 10:09 |
| MaNI | at the time mostly, though its been a while | 10:10 |
| MaNI | the syllabus was busy geting changed when I left so I imagine its changed quite a bit | 10:10 |
| pieter2627 | so you used the modules with 3 char codes? | 10:12 |
| MaNI | yeah | 10:12 |
| MaNI | well COS416-D etc. | 10:13 |
| MaNI | depends I guess what you want to do in future as well, I enjoyed that they still had C++, while others in the industry will argue that everyone should be learning python now | 10:14 |
| pieter2627 | MaNI: were you able to do the assignments on Linux? | 10:14 |
| * pieter2627 just happy that it is not java | 10:15 | |
| pieter2627 | or delphi | 10:15 |
| MaNI | depends somewhat on the subject, for some subjects yes, others no | 10:15 |
| MaNI | at the time they used bloodshed dev-c++ for quite a few subjects and wanted assignments that worked with that - but I imagine they've probably moved on to something else by now | 10:16 |
| MaNI | at least I hope so | 10:16 |
| pieter2627 | but atleast they did not have an issue if you didn't use Win? | 10:17 |
| MaNI | well generally as long as it can compile on win when they get it | 10:17 |
| MaNI | I can suggest the SOC forums to ask for recent experiences perhaps http://osprey.unisa.ac.za/phorum/list.php?668 | 10:18 |
| MaNI | they aren't overly active but the people who do respond there are usually helpful | 10:18 |
| pieter2627 | thanks MaNI | 10:19 |
| MaNI | but yeah the not replying to email thing is I'm afraid the norm, especially for registrations they aren't great with that | 10:23 |
| pieter2627 | yeah, also got that yesterday... "you will only be helped once registered" | 10:24 |
| MaNI | once you are registered there is 'myunisa' with subject forums and stuff - and individual lecturers are a bit more responsive | 10:24 |
| MaNI | in their defense they do have basically the largest number of registrations in the world to deal with, but yeah :( | 10:25 |
| pieter2627 | guess so | 10:25 |
| MaNI | I always found it easier to get help in person for registration stuff | 10:26 |
| MaNI | if you happen to be in driving range from one of the main campuses | 10:26 |
| MaNI | though they may have done away with that and gone online only - hmm | 10:27 |
| pieter2627 | was there yesterday and got helped on questions that is not too advanced | 10:28 |
| MaNI | what other unis you considering? | 10:42 |
| pieter2627 | tuks, but not really interested in it | 10:42 |
| * mazal peaks in | 10:43 | |
| mazal | Afternoon everyone | 10:43 |
| MaNI | http://wikistudent.ws/Unisa/Category:Computer_Science < you may find that slightly helpful to get a glimpse into some of the subjects | 10:44 |
| barrydk | Afternoon mazal | 10:44 |
| mazal | Gaanit oom barry ? | 10:44 |
| barrydk | Sleg man baie besig nie eers tyd vir minecraft vandag nie | 10:45 |
| mazal | :( ook so die kant | 10:45 |
| pieter2627 | thanks MaNI, wish some of the wiki entries had more info while also being very excited by others | 10:46 |
| MaNI | yeah :( | 10:46 |
| MaNI | there used to be this URL where you could get all the TUT letters for the previous years | 10:47 |
| MaNI | so I used to trawl those to make my subject choices - but it seems that they took it down | 10:47 |
| MaNI | dodging the crap subjects is probably key no matter what university :p | 10:49 |
| pieter2627 | that wiki, two others that are also floating around and the module brochure atleast helped to gain inside to all the modules | 10:58 |
| * pieter2627 knows that he wants to dodge the visual modules | 10:59 | |
| MaNI | heh | 11:02 |
| MaNI | personally I hated most of the INF subjects | 11:02 |
| MaNI | I did a dual COS/INF major (don't know if they still offer that) and the INF stuff was mind numbingly boring | 11:03 |
| pieter2627 | yeah, mostly looking forward to only the HCI and planning INF stuff | 11:10 |
| MaNI | the various database subjects are a snore fest | 11:11 |
| MaNI | though I suppose at the end of the day they have aided me in life a little | 11:11 |
| pieter2627 | speaking of which, was stored procedures handled when you did it? | 11:12 |
| * pieter2627 knows he wants to cover that thoroughly | 11:13 | |
| MaNI | yeah, pretty sure they were | 11:17 |
| stickyboy | unisa.ac.za is running a phorum? | 11:44 |
| stickyboy | I'm not that into message boards anymore, but I kinda thought this was nice: http://flarum.org/ | 11:44 |
| stickyboy | Hipsters as F*** though. | 11:45 |
| stickyboy | Right, Kilos? | 11:45 |
| gremble | Good afternoon | 17:50 |
| Kilos | hi gremble Cryterion | 17:51 |
| gremble | How arey ou Kilos ? | 17:52 |
| Kilos | fine ty lad and you? | 17:52 |
| gremble | I am well thank you | 17:52 |
| Kilos | hmm... | 17:56 |
| === Kilos- is now known as Kilos | ||
| * Cryterion thinks Kilos is confused on devices logging in ;) | 18:22 | |
| Kilos | hahaha | 18:25 |
| Kilos | went to lappy | 18:25 |
| Kilos | easier and closer when lying down | 18:26 |
| Kilos | hehe | 18:26 |
| Kilos | grumbles ping | 18:32 |
| Kilos | did you get the mail in our list from karl? | 18:33 |
| gremble | Yup. I will send him a message tomorrow | 18:34 |
| Kilos | ok | 18:37 |
| Kilos | ohi superfly | 18:40 |
| superfly | o/ | 18:49 |
| Kilos | night all. sleep tight | 19:42 |
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