Is Computer Science boring ??

This is a bit of a weird question and responses will vary from person to person, but I'm interested in whether people who study computer science find it interesting, or if they picked CS thinking it would be good when it is actually boring. Give details with your reply.

Reply 1

Mustard-man

18

why don't you go on one of those taster courses? Like you said, it varies from people to people, so what other people find boring, you might not...

Reply 2

Zerox

where are these taster courses, how do you apply to them etc?

Reply 3

*Mike*

11

Personally i find computer science very interesting and enjoyable.

Reply 4

Mustard-man

18

Zerox

where are these taster courses, how do you apply to them etc?

well quite a few universities do them, they're in the summer holidays. Link

Reply 5

Cortez

17

Its boring at exeter - bit dissapointed in it really ...

Reply 6

Mustard-man

18

Cortez

Its boring at exeter - bit dissapointed in it really ...

In what ways is it boring? (I'm considering cs as well)

Reply 7

Cortez

17

Mustard-man

In what ways is it boring? (I'm considering cs as well)

Well it just all seems to be a repeat of what i did in computer at A Level and its just not keeping me interested. The programming module is good because thats what i like doing but things like "Information Systems" , "Introduction To Systems Level" and even AI were pretty much covered in A Level.

Media Computing is ok but it could be made a lot better with much more hands on work in the labs as apposed to boring lectures explaining how to code a website - i just forget about it all as soon as i leave.

And then we have "Social And Proffesional Issues", its the most pathetic module ever and im sure it should be taught to law students and not CS students! We were being taught something in that module the other day and it wasnt even remotley related to CS but i cant remember what it was now :rolleyes:

Reply 8

abshirf2

1

cortez and everyone else: computer science is a bit too much theory but if you did computing at uni the ones that lead to a BEng or MEng rather than the Bsci and MSci, u would i think like it more cos it is nothing like A level computing (maybe a little bit), but because it is an Eng course it is more practical. I think everyone like practical stuff (another maybe here).

Reply 9

Linda

3

Personally I love the theory (atomata, formal languages, logic, development of early computers/history) and logic programming, but hate java! Am not having fun with java at the mo, have an exam in April...

Reply 10

Cortez

17

Linda

Personally I love the theory (atomata, formal languages, logic, development of early computers/history) and logic programming, but hate java! Am not having fun with java at the mo, have an exam in April...

Java is the only module i like and the only one im doing well in!

Reply 11

*Mike*

11

Cortez

Java is the only module i like and the only one im doing well in!

I enjoy that challenge of writing programs too :biggrin:

Reply 12

Navajo

14

OMG it is the most boring subject in the world, Some parts are good like the Java and Prolog modues but some just send you to sleep about 3 mins into the lectures. Some old prof babbling on about data structures is incredibly boring, but I like it really :smile:

Reply 13

Alaric

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Navajo

Some old prof babbling on about data structures is incredibly boring

How can you find splay trees boring? They're really cool :biggrin:

Reply 14

act smiley

Personally, I really enjoy it, but I did sleep through a few systems modelling lectures.

Reply 15

Navajo

14

act smiley are you doing CS in cardiff uni?

trees are boring, simple as that. And if you do get excited by data trees then its time to sort your life out to be honest :p:

Reply 16

hallucination

1

I dropped out of CS because I found it too boring. Still wanted to do something with computers though so now I'm studying AI which is much more interesting IMO.