Recent content by ErgoSum

Dunno about commerce, but Im doing software eng at Usyd and its pretty good. It used to be true that the facilities were a bit outdated, but they just built a brand new school of IT building which opens next semester and they putting school of IT under Elec Eng now. So EE and CS will be merged...

Software Engineering Man Winston Software engineering rules because it has electrical, physics in it. The amount of things you can do if you have a) electrical knowledge b) physics c) programming ability is massive and much more interesting. I for one like the current layout of the degree...

I suggest openoffice.org, its a hefty download but its a completely free alternative to office that should be able to open up 99% of word .doc files with no problems and has a export to pdf function built in that i use myself for uni work and which works perfectly

And .. And... And.. jm1234567890 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IS ENGINEERING TOO dammit its a specialised branch of electrical engineering , its not just programming... The institute of engineers australia recognises it www.ieaust.org .. (free membership for student engineers, if you sign up you get a...

Hmm.. i recall some girls in my first year elec class .. but not many. i have to say though, it wont be a problem ... because ull have plenty of girl friends in other classes.. guys arnt so scary, you can be friends with us im sure!! (co-ed schools all the way man) Hehe just.. in software...

Yeah Tooheyz ... theres plenty of girls in the maths/science courses you have to do ... its just things like elec where the guy to girl ratio is insanely crap (if ur a guy)

Beige In case anyone missed it in other thread Beige Pages ----------------- http://web.archive.org/web/20030707140721/www.usu.usyd.edu.au/beigepages/

Hail To ErgoSum Here you go tooheyz, you just have to ask nicely :) Beige Pages ----------------- http://web.archive.org/web/20030707140721/www.usu.usyd.edu.au/beigepages/ Hehe, its amazing how long the usu website has been "under development for", lucky the wayback machine at the...

Yes Yes, all bars on usyd let you in during the semester, but they will check your id if you buy drinks. Im not sure how it works at night though. IMHO manning is the only slightly decent bar at usyd, wentworth is a hole (although they have an xbox in the corner).

OO vs other types And object oriented has its place, its pretty good for group development work (which is what first year software focuses on, which sucks!!). First year software at usyd is nothing special.. hopefully second year will be better (although the title of the software course for...

Java Yeah, java is the language for soft 1001/1901, and 1002/1902 well it was this year and i doubt they will change it. I think its because sydney uni has no prereqs or assumed knowledge for engineering, so they start off with a managed language that people will hopefully be able to pick up...

Hey... This year i did software engineering which has same first year as Electrical Engineering. Note book editions might change between years, this wont really effect you although sometimes lectures will put up a note saying this lecture covers pages 20-25 say. But if you look through the book...

Helpful ErgoSum is here with the web link \ http://www-secure.cce.usyd.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CCE.woa/wa/Courses/category?ID=47 I did the physics bridging course last year... um.. for what its worth, the course was probably worth doing not because it made physics any easier but it allowed...

Um well. you dont NEED 3u maths to do first year maths courses, cos they essentially start at the very beginning and work their way to more advanced stuff, however if uve done 3u maths u would have covered 70% of the stuff before making it easy. So it does help but you dont need it if you are...

yeah , Ive Also done soft1901,soft1902 and you definately dont need it for 1001 and its not really of that much use for 1002 so eh..