Online MSc Computer Science with Data Analytics at University of York
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by elideliPSRB stands for PROFESSIONAL, STATUTORY AND REGULATORY BODIES which regroups professional accreditations, like for dentists, architects, engineers etc. Not applicable in the case of computer science as no CS job is regulated. All you need to care about is York accreditation by the UK government to confer degrees. See here for more details: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/c12061/psrb_faq
I dont think this exist for CS. We have it from my country for Biology which I did..
Reply 181
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by elideliPSRB stands for PROFESSIONAL, STATUTORY AND REGULATORY BODIES which regroups professional accreditations, like for dentists, architects, engineers etc. Not applicable in the case of computer science as no CS job is regulated. All you need to care about is York accreditation by the UK government to confer degrees. See here for more details: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/c12061/psrb_faq
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by PTCSI dont think this exist for CS. We have it from my country for Biology which I did..
Thanks a lot guys
Reply 182
Guys, how have you found it after the first week? Are the notes good?
Reply 183
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by YourmainmancjGuys, how have you found it after the first week? Are the notes good?
I would like to know as well
Finished my application and hoping for an offer
Reply 184
Yes, First week impressions would be great.
Reply 185
The first week of the course has just flown by! The main focus has been on programming concepts and Java. There have been several programming exercises to complete so there has been good opportunity to practice what we have been learning.
The course content is good, it is well laid out and things are explained well. There is a lot of overlap between the course notes and the first few chapters of the Java book (including the programming exercises). There haven't been any lecture videos so far. There have been a few brief videos to introduce topics or explain a concept, but these haven't been longer than a few minutes each. I was quite surprised by this as I was expecting there to be mainly video lectures. I guess this may be different for different modules.
There is a discussion forum, which has been quite active. Students have been helping each other out and the course tutors have generally been quick to respond to student queries.
It's been a busy week! Managing to fit the studying in, but I imagine this will become more challenging in later weeks/months when we are covering more complex material. No regrets so far!
The course content is good, it is well laid out and things are explained well. There is a lot of overlap between the course notes and the first few chapters of the Java book (including the programming exercises). There haven't been any lecture videos so far. There have been a few brief videos to introduce topics or explain a concept, but these haven't been longer than a few minutes each. I was quite surprised by this as I was expecting there to be mainly video lectures. I guess this may be different for different modules.
There is a discussion forum, which has been quite active. Students have been helping each other out and the course tutors have generally been quick to respond to student queries.
It's been a busy week! Managing to fit the studying in, but I imagine this will become more challenging in later weeks/months when we are covering more complex material. No regrets so far!
Reply 186
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by ancient_queenThe first week of the course has just flown by! The main focus has been on programming concepts and Java. There have been several programming exercises to complete so there has been good opportunity to practice what we have been learning.
The course content is good, it is well laid out and things are explained well. There is a lot of overlap between the course notes and the first few chapters of the Java book (including the programming exercises). There haven't been any lecture videos so far. There have been a few brief videos to introduce topics or explain a concept, but these haven't been longer than a few minutes each. I was quite surprised by this as I was expecting there to be mainly video lectures. I guess this may be different for different modules.
There is a discussion forum, which has been quite active. Students have been helping each other out and the course tutors have generally been quick to respond to student queries.
It's been a busy week! Managing to fit the studying in, but I imagine this will become more challenging in later weeks/months when we are covering more complex material. No regrets so far!
The course content is good, it is well laid out and things are explained well. There is a lot of overlap between the course notes and the first few chapters of the Java book (including the programming exercises). There haven't been any lecture videos so far. There have been a few brief videos to introduce topics or explain a concept, but these haven't been longer than a few minutes each. I was quite surprised by this as I was expecting there to be mainly video lectures. I guess this may be different for different modules.
There is a discussion forum, which has been quite active. Students have been helping each other out and the course tutors have generally been quick to respond to student queries.
It's been a busy week! Managing to fit the studying in, but I imagine this will become more challenging in later weeks/months when we are covering more complex material. No regrets so far!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts
Interesting about no video lectures
Reply 187
Hey thanks a lot for getting back to us, that sounds excellent, I can’t wait to start
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by ancient_queenThe first week of the course has just flown by! The main focus has been on programming concepts and Java. There have been several programming exercises to complete so there has been good opportunity to practice what we have been learning.
The course content is good, it is well laid out and things are explained well. There is a lot of overlap between the course notes and the first few chapters of the Java book (including the programming exercises). There haven't been any lecture videos so far. There have been a few brief videos to introduce topics or explain a concept, but these haven't been longer than a few minutes each. I was quite surprised by this as I was expecting there to be mainly video lectures. I guess this may be different for different modules.
There is a discussion forum, which has been quite active. Students have been helping each other out and the course tutors have generally been quick to respond to student queries.
It's been a busy week! Managing to fit the studying in, but I imagine this will become more challenging in later weeks/months when we are covering more complex material. No regrets so far!
The course content is good, it is well laid out and things are explained well. There is a lot of overlap between the course notes and the first few chapters of the Java book (including the programming exercises). There haven't been any lecture videos so far. There have been a few brief videos to introduce topics or explain a concept, but these haven't been longer than a few minutes each. I was quite surprised by this as I was expecting there to be mainly video lectures. I guess this may be different for different modules.
There is a discussion forum, which has been quite active. Students have been helping each other out and the course tutors have generally been quick to respond to student queries.
It's been a busy week! Managing to fit the studying in, but I imagine this will become more challenging in later weeks/months when we are covering more complex material. No regrets so far!
Reply 188
From my perspective, I'm quite impressed with the course so far. As mentioned above, the course has followed the textbook (Learn Java in Two Semesters) quite closely, however the exercises you do as you go are a really helpful way of testing your knowledge. The content is quite easy right now, but the focus is on practicing the very basics. There also (in my group at least) seem to be a really good community of question-askers and answerers.
My group also seems to be more skilled than I was anticipating, with the majority having a STEM background, and many with CS backgrounds. I think this is probably a good sign, and it compares favourably with other computer science conversion courses in the UK (e.g see here).
That being said, I had some difficulty getting my java development environment to work properly at the start of the year, and as a result I'm a little behind which is a little daunting as catching up doable but not easy. I would say the estimate somewhere in this thread of putting in 15 hours a week is probably about right, so tricky when stacking with a full-time job and any hobbies you have.
My group also seems to be more skilled than I was anticipating, with the majority having a STEM background, and many with CS backgrounds. I think this is probably a good sign, and it compares favourably with other computer science conversion courses in the UK (e.g see here).
That being said, I had some difficulty getting my java development environment to work properly at the start of the year, and as a result I'm a little behind which is a little daunting as catching up doable but not easy. I would say the estimate somewhere in this thread of putting in 15 hours a week is probably about right, so tricky when stacking with a full-time job and any hobbies you have.
Reply 189
Thanks for the reply, the link you provided is quite interesting in regards to other similar courses. I’m sure you’ll catch up with work, have they given you your first assignment yet? Apparently you have one due in one week according the course outline 😂
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by Holsy312From my perspective, I'm quite impressed with the course so far. As mentioned above, the course has followed the textbook (Learn Java in Two Semesters) quite closely, however the exercises you do as you go are a really helpful way of testing your knowledge. The content is quite easy right now, but the focus is on practicing the very basics. There also (in my group at least) seem to be a really good community of question-askers and answerers.
My group also seems to be more skilled than I was anticipating, with the majority having a STEM background, and many with CS backgrounds. I think this is probably a good sign, and it compares favourably with other computer science conversion courses in the UK (e.g see here).
That being said, I had some difficulty getting my java development environment to work properly at the start of the year, and as a result I'm a little behind which is a little daunting as catching up doable but not easy. I would say the estimate somewhere in this thread of putting in 15 hours a week is probably about right, so tricky when stacking with a full-time job and any hobbies you have.
My group also seems to be more skilled than I was anticipating, with the majority having a STEM background, and many with CS backgrounds. I think this is probably a good sign, and it compares favourably with other computer science conversion courses in the UK (e.g see here).
That being said, I had some difficulty getting my java development environment to work properly at the start of the year, and as a result I'm a little behind which is a little daunting as catching up doable but not easy. I would say the estimate somewhere in this thread of putting in 15 hours a week is probably about right, so tricky when stacking with a full-time job and any hobbies you have.
Reply 190
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For anybody interested in the CS61a Berkeley course
Here are all the 2015 lectures https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_961798111/2015-01-26+-+Computer+Science+61A+-+2015-01-26.mp4#
Here the slides https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp15/assets/slides/
Here the course site https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp15/
Here are all the 2015 lectures https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_961798111/2015-01-26+-+Computer+Science+61A+-+2015-01-26.mp4#
Here the slides https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp15/assets/slides/
Here the course site https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp15/
Reply 191
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Hopefully others would jump in and share theirs as well.
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by Holsy312From my perspective, I'm quite impressed with the course so far. As mentioned above, the course has followed the textbook (Learn Java in Two Semesters) quite closely, however the exercises you do as you go are a really helpful way of testing your knowledge. The content is quite easy right now, but the focus is on practicing the very basics. There also (in my group at least) seem to be a really good community of question-askers and answerers.
My group also seems to be more skilled than I was anticipating, with the majority having a STEM background, and many with CS backgrounds. I think this is probably a good sign, and it compares favourably with other computer science conversion courses in the UK (e.g see here).
That being said, I had some difficulty getting my java development environment to work properly at the start of the year, and as a result I'm a little behind which is a little daunting as catching up doable but not easy. I would say the estimate somewhere in this thread of putting in 15 hours a week is probably about right, so tricky when stacking with a full-time job and any hobbies you have.
My group also seems to be more skilled than I was anticipating, with the majority having a STEM background, and many with CS backgrounds. I think this is probably a good sign, and it compares favourably with other computer science conversion courses in the UK (e.g see here).
That being said, I had some difficulty getting my java development environment to work properly at the start of the year, and as a result I'm a little behind which is a little daunting as catching up doable but not easy. I would say the estimate somewhere in this thread of putting in 15 hours a week is probably about right, so tricky when stacking with a full-time job and any hobbies you have.
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by ancient_queenThe first week of the course has just flown by! The main focus has been on programming concepts and Java. There have been several programming exercises to complete so there has been good opportunity to practice what we have been learning.
The course content is good, it is well laid out and things are explained well. There is a lot of overlap between the course notes and the first few chapters of the Java book (including the programming exercises). There haven't been any lecture videos so far. There have been a few brief videos to introduce topics or explain a concept, but these haven't been longer than a few minutes each. I was quite surprised by this as I was expecting there to be mainly video lectures. I guess this may be different for different modules.
There is a discussion forum, which has been quite active. Students have been helping each other out and the course tutors have generally been quick to respond to student queries.
It's been a busy week! Managing to fit the studying in, but I imagine this will become more challenging in later weeks/months when we are covering more complex material. No regrets so far!
The course content is good, it is well laid out and things are explained well. There is a lot of overlap between the course notes and the first few chapters of the Java book (including the programming exercises). There haven't been any lecture videos so far. There have been a few brief videos to introduce topics or explain a concept, but these haven't been longer than a few minutes each. I was quite surprised by this as I was expecting there to be mainly video lectures. I guess this may be different for different modules.
There is a discussion forum, which has been quite active. Students have been helping each other out and the course tutors have generally been quick to respond to student queries.
It's been a busy week! Managing to fit the studying in, but I imagine this will become more challenging in later weeks/months when we are covering more complex material. No regrets so far!
Reply 192
Just wondering what this course would be like part time over 2 years if I reduced hours at work from 5 days to 4 days a week part time?
Is maths a huge requirement of this programme?
Thanks
Is maths a huge requirement of this programme?
Thanks
Reply 193
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by cursed childJust wondering what this course would be like part time over 2 years if I reduced hours at work from 5 days to 4 days a week part time?
Is maths a huge requirement of this programme?
Thanks
Is maths a huge requirement of this programme?
Thanks
Fro may speaking with course admin is not possible to do it quicker than 2 years simply because of how modules are spaced out
Reply 194
Hi, Maths is a big part of the AI modules but the way maths is done in computer science is no where near as tricky as it is in subjects like engineering or robotics. Any arts student would be fine with the maths as it contains linear algebra and calculus both of which are fairly easy to understand and apply, the only hard maths would be the stats so try to avoid the data analytics course and stick to the normal computer science one or the cyber security course. As for going part time this probably isn’t necessary as you can only do one module at a time so you have your evenings and weekends to study (might be a bit harder with family commitments though).
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by cursed childJust wondering what this course would be like part time over 2 years if I reduced hours at work from 5 days to 4 days a week part time?
Is maths a huge requirement of this programme?
Thanks
Is maths a huge requirement of this programme?
Thanks
Reply 195
Thanks for these great answers and insights into the course!
How many hours would you say you need to put in over a week? I've just accepted a full time position and am worried about having enough time to study
How many hours would you say you need to put in over a week? I've just accepted a full time position and am worried about having enough time to study
Reply 196
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by ancient_queenHi thomc. I've applied for the course (CS track) and will be starting in April. I work in healthcare at the moment and am looking to make a career change. I can do some programming (Android development), but it's just something I have been doing on and off in my own time. Have you applied for the course?
I am also in healthcare and starting the course in June. How do you find the transition so far?
Reply 197
For someone who is completely new to programming I’d say about 15-20hours per week to get the hang of it if I’m truly honest.
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by JasmineKratI am also in healthcare and starting the course in June. How do you find the transition so far?
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by MightyMirthThanks for these great answers and insights into the course!
How many hours would you say you need to put in over a week? I've just accepted a full time position and am worried about having enough time to study
How many hours would you say you need to put in over a week? I've just accepted a full time position and am worried about having enough time to study
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by JasmineKratI am also in healthcare and starting the course in June. How do you find the transition so far?
Hi JasmineKrat,
I'm finding it okay so far, but the material covered in the first three weeks isn't completely new to me as I've been doing free online programming courses (using Java) for the past couple of years. The students that are completely new to it have commented that the learning curve is steep and they are finding it challenging. The next week will be focusing on algorithm time complexity analysis, so I'm expecting it to be trickier.
Reply 199
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by MightyMirthThanks for these great answers and insights into the course!
How many hours would you say you need to put in over a week? I've just accepted a full time position and am worried about having enough time to study
How many hours would you say you need to put in over a week? I've just accepted a full time position and am worried about having enough time to study
They recommend 18.75 hours, but I've not been keeping track of exactly how much time I'm spending on it. I have been trying to work on it weekday evenings, most of Saturday and approximately half a day on Fridays. Generally, working through all the materials and doing all the required/recommended reading takes a lot of time, so if there is something particularly challenging, I imagine it would be easy to fall behind.
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