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Reply #15 on: December 15, 2006, 12:47:09 PM
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Because of course, trying to do coursework with a heavy timetable and part time work is piss easy compared to the automation of 9-5 work.

Turn up... sit around... fag break... do what you always do and what you know with your eyes closed... then lunch... then back to doing what you already know and can do with almost no extra effort, in fact it becomes a challenge to motivate yourself to do it, then another fag break, then home at 5pm. So hard compared to what us students do of course you poor things.


Im specifically not talking about 9-5 though - Im talking about working in a profession or being self employed.

Thing is the people saying uni isnt that hard have already been there and done it for themselves so it is no good trying to describe how hard you think it is - we already know! Ive already done a software engineering degree at a red brick uni + I worked part time while I was there - I know what is required!
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Reply #16 on: December 15, 2006, 14:33:02 PM
Im at uni till 4pm then its off to the pub.

Back in till next Friday though, because im staff

Its going to be wonderfull with no juinor badmen cockholes about :mrgreen:
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Reply #17 on: December 15, 2006, 14:48:19 PM
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Because of course, trying to do coursework with a heavy timetable and part time work is piss easy compared to the automation of 9-5 work.

Turn up... sit around... fag break... do what you always do and what you know with your eyes closed... then lunch... then back to doing what you already know and can do with almost no extra effort, in fact it becomes a challenge to motivate yourself to do it, then another fag break, then home at 5pm. So hard compared to what us students do of course you poor things.


Im specifically not talking about 9-5 though - Im talking about working in a profession or being self employed.

Thing is the people saying uni isnt that hard have already been there and done it for themselves so it is no good trying to describe how hard you think it is - we already know! Ive already done a software engineering degree at a red brick uni + I worked part time while I was there - I know what is required!


Except the loudest voices did it... found it too hard.. and jacked it in, and are now being sour grapes and naysaying every other student here.
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Reply #18 on: December 15, 2006, 14:54:38 PM
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Except the loudest voices did it... found it too hard.. and jacked it in, and are now being sour grapes and naysaying every other student here.


Lol I presume you mean me. I left uni do software dev because it was dot com boom time and silly money was being banded about, not because it was hard. It was a piece of piss. I might go back someday and finish it off.

Ill do your coursework if you do my job. Whats your task at the moment? An essay or something ?

And beaker has it spot on. 70% at uni gets you a first but work requires 100% or the only first you get is first one to the dole queue.

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Reply #19 on: December 15, 2006, 14:56:15 PM
Ive got to say as well, these threads are no fun anymore, because all the people who used to argue with me have left uni, got a job, and agree with me now :(

Theres only spunkychicken and metalhead left.
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Reply #20 on: December 15, 2006, 15:02:01 PM
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Ive got to say as well, these threads are no fun anymore, because all the people who used to argue with me have left uni, got a job, and agree with me now :(

Theres only spunkychicken and metalhead left.


awwww poor Sam

amazing how the general thread of this board has changed as the majority of contributors have gone from 2ndary school through 6th form and Uni into the real world.

I visited the real world once, didnt like it much.
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Reply #21 on: December 15, 2006, 15:03:20 PM
Ill argue if you want, just for the sake of it ??

Life was soo much hard at uni. I had to deal with managing a hangover, advanced statistics, law and software development !

At least now, in the real world I only have to do one of those things at a time and not all together !

real life is easy; being a student and balancing everything is really hard.



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Reply #22 on: December 15, 2006, 15:36:15 PM
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"The other Shaltanacs joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet"

:lol:

"Kisha no kisha wa kisha de kisha shimasu." :P
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Reply #23 on: December 15, 2006, 15:46:55 PM
Finished at 3, massive party at the union tonight then seeing madness tomorrow night and home on sunday. love the student life, dont deny it being super lazy.

Jaimz :rock:
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Reply #24 on: December 15, 2006, 16:13:01 PM
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Ive got to say as well, these threads are no fun anymore, because all the people who used to argue with me have left uni, got a job, and agree with me now :(

Theres only spunkychicken and metalhead left.


lol :) fair nuff! :D

as for the coursework nope... its dealing with a codasyl and heirarchical database.

Need to produce a conceptual model, identify the relationships, degrees, existance conditions, describe how Id turn that into an EAR diagram, then describe how to develop a schema from that EAR diagram.

Identify a logical tree, and use it as the schema of a heirarchical database.

Discuss data duplication within the heirarchical database.

describe how the relationships are mapped into a codasyl database schema, and then contrast the representation of a codasyl existance condition with the same existence condition in a heirarchical database.

So a little essay work, a little modelling work. :)
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Reply #25 on: December 15, 2006, 16:24:10 PM
Theres no such thing as a heirarchical database, you mean a heirarchical data structure. And why are they teaching you outdated (and I mean OUTDATED) stuff like Codasyl. I had to look it up to see what it was.
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Reply #26 on: December 15, 2006, 18:11:13 PM
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Ive got to say as well, these threads are no fun anymore, because all the people who used to argue with me have left uni, got a job, and agree with me now :(

Theres only spunkychicken and metalhead left.


I try and argue with you a bit, trouble is I spend more time agreeing :/

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Codasyl.


Thats older than me! :shock:
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Reply #27 on: December 15, 2006, 18:45:16 PM
hey - we had to use pascal for an AI module - oh what fun that was!
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Reply #28 on: December 15, 2006, 19:24:59 PM
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Theres no such thing as a heirarchical database, you mean a heirarchical data structure. And why are they teaching you outdated (and I mean OUTDATED) stuff like Codasyl. I had to look it up to see what it was.


Your telling me that what I am reading on my course is wrong. Its referred to in the course notes as a heirarchical database, the data structure of a heirarchical database is in fact a logical tree.

It is also referred to as exactly that on the coursework sheet that I paraphrased earlier.

Codasyl was an historic leap. Prior to the Codasyl group there were no ratified standards for database type storage, heirarchical databases were all that existed, aside from some odd programmers coming up with their own sort of configuration, but again this was completely unstandardised.

Codasyl lead to the revolution that was Relational based databases, which coincidentally lead to the new revolution promoted in oracle 9 and 10 of Object databases.

The above may indeed be incorrect but its what im being taught in uni, and so its what I will be examined on, and so telling me otherwise will not change my opinion that it is infact gospel for the time being.
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Reply #29 on: December 15, 2006, 19:26:07 PM
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hey - we had to use pascal for an AI module - oh what fun that was!


how?!

Pascal is a pure learning language, you cant do a damned thing with it!
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