reading courses
J/P/J
Is there certain subjects you must pick from or can you pick? I was
thinking Perl in the fall and/or Java in the winter.
Does anyone have any advise? Anyone done these as reading courses?
I don't really know how to go about this, so any feed back please.
Jeff, Peggyanne, & Jesse McLeod <jmc...@trentu.ca>
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Paul-André Beaulieu
> Is there certain subjects you must pick from or can you pick? I was
> thinking Perl in the fall and/or Java in the winter.
> Does anyone have any advise? Anyone done these as reading courses?
> I don't really know how to go about this, so any feed back please.
Talk to Bonnie (the person who runs the Comp Sci department, not the
president). She knows allllll about it.
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Jeff Kolesnikowicz
"J/P/J" <jmc...@trentu.ca> wrote in message
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> I was thinking of proposing for the 400 reading courses next year.
> Is there certain subjects you must pick from or can you pick? I was
> thinking Perl in the fall and/or Java in the winter.
> Does anyone have any advise? Anyone done these as reading courses?
> I don't really know how to go about this, so any feed back please.
a reading course could be really interesting - they allow you to cover
something that interests you in more detail than what is covered in a class.
You have to pick something that the available profs are knowlegable in - I
don't think you can pick a course that deals in openGL or anything like that
(although that could be interesting...it's not something you'd take at a
University.) - and it has to be relavent to a 4th year Computer Science
discipline. Learning Perl of Java doesn't really qualify. I'm thinking
about doing a course in advanced distributed systems during the summer. I
was told to go look at other universities crourse offerings at the graduate
fourth year levels. Remember that it is a *fourth* year credit and you are
expected to do moer than simply learn a language. At this level it is
assumed that you have enough skill to pick up a new language easily.
Perhaps if you had a project in mind which utilizes Perl .. some advanced
networking which requires Perl/Tk maybe ..... but simply learning Perl is
not sufficient.
--jeff
Paul-André Beaulieu
> something that interests you in more detail than what is covered in a
class.
> You have to pick something that the available profs are knowlegable in - I
> don't think you can pick a course that deals in openGL or anything like
that
> (although that could be interesting...it's not something you'd take at a
> University.) - and it has to be relavent to a 4th year Computer Science
> discipline. Learning Perl of Java doesn't really qualify. I'm thinking
> about doing a course in advanced distributed systems during the summer. I
> was told to go look at other universities crourse offerings at the
graduate
> fourth year levels. Remember that it is a *fourth* year credit and you
are
> expected to do moer than simply learn a language. At this level it is
> assumed that you have enough skill to pick up a new language easily.
> Perhaps if you had a project in mind which utilizes Perl .. some advanced
> networking which requires Perl/Tk maybe ..... but simply learning Perl is
> not sufficient.
Although it doesn't necessarily have to be a project course. It can just
deal with advanced topics in computer science. I'm trying for a reading
course in network security protocols for next year, myself. Not a project
course, but a thorough learning course.
And if you want to get a credit for learning a language, get CO410...
comparative programming languages... You'll get exposed to plenty of bizarre
languages you've never heard of, and the final project deals with learning
about a new language and writing code in it. I chose Haskell myself, and boy
is it weird... Someone was doing Java, actually.