COS Department exam entrance allowance

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#35 Re:

2016-11-11 14:42

#2: Concerned CS Student -  

 Going out of their way? lol

They don't even give us indications as to what type of examples we should go through when it comes to application of theory. We're not paying one of the highest fees to guess what kind of examples will be asked. 

COS222 for example... They say we should focus on pplication rather than memorizing facts, yet we never have tutorials to apply anything and see what we really don't understand.

 

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#38 Re: Re:

2016-11-11 20:51:05

#35: A - Re:  

 If studying to you is memorizing examples, you clearly don't understand the concept of application. You need to understand the work thoroughly and be able to use your knowledge to *apply* it to a problem. Quite honestly, 222 has been pathetically easy this semester, especially when compared to previous years. The practicals were basically free exam entrance and then they even gave the opportunity of writing a third test if you failed the first test.

 

And people complaining about the 284 videos on chapter 4 only coming out the day before the test, if you actually watched the videos you would see that the majority of it's content was the prof saying go read the textbook, which is a wonderful source.

 

We're here to study and become professionals. If you need to be babied and can't learn something by yourself, good luck in industry. A lot of the things we will be working on in future don't even exist yet, but build on the foundation of things we learn today. How can one become the next Dijkstra with a mentality like some of the people in these comments? Challenge yourselves and never stop learning.