A campus club(Kult of Gaming) I belong to at WLU in Waterloo, Ontario was doing fundraising for this charity. I don't know the total amount we raised, but we got the creater of VGcats to come out and do a signing for childsplay, where the profits went to the charity, yesterday.
As it stands, I am very interested in both the hardware and software sides of computing. I liked learning about the gates, flipflops, ect, and ended my Digital Electronics class with a very good mark. I also did very well in both CS courses I took. I would be pretty happy with either degree. What I was trying to figure out was, which degree would be better for me to have? Both degrees would allow me to take the same courses, but the piece of paper I have when I graduate is probubly going to determine which industry I am better suited for. Right now, I'm pretty indifferent over which one I get, but I don't want to enter a job market which is saturated and is going to be horrible to find a job in.
Don't get me wrong, if I was accepted into UW for CS, I would have gone there instead of WLU. But I wasn't. I was a lazy ass during high school and came out with an average 2% too low to get into CS at UW. There is nothing wrong with CS at Laurier, it's just not as well known as UW. From what I hear, the quality of the degree has improved over the past few years.
Your right, I should have. However, when I was applying to universities last year, the admission averages were the highest they have ever been. I missed the required average by about 2%, but WLU is still a really good school. I am seriously thinking, depending on what I end up majoring in, is to either go for a masters or engineering at UW when I graduate from WLU.
I was a high school student up to june. Most high schools in Ontario at one point offered programming courses, but it seems that the interet in the subject has begun to decrease in popularity.
While i was in grade 10, there were about 60-70 students enrolled in computer science, but by the time I reached grade 11, they had decided to cancel the grade 12 computer science course for the next year. Thus I was forced to take grade 12 computer science in grade 11. In other words, it went from 60-70 students per grade enrolled, to just over 20 students from two seperate grades.
Of those 20 students, I'd say that there were only about 10 truly interested in computer science who actually wished to pursue it at post secondary, with myself being one of them. With those numbers, I'd say it would be pretty hard to put on any programming competition with strong numbers in attendence. It could be that interested people just didnt have time to enroll in computer science, but I'd make sure that there is interest in the high school before attempting anything large.
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COBOL? without caps? blasphemy.
A campus club(Kult of Gaming) I belong to at WLU in Waterloo, Ontario was doing fundraising for this charity. I don't know the total amount we raised, but we got the creater of VGcats to come out and do a signing for childsplay, where the profits went to the charity, yesterday.
Im assuming this is a joke...
I'm allowed as many as I want, assuming it doesn't interfere with the easy reading of the sentence. I never was good at english.
Hah, bashing my school and you cant even make a proper insult. Based on the number of times I've heard it, its "The high school down the street"
As it stands, I am very interested in both the hardware and software sides of computing. I liked learning about the gates, flipflops, ect, and ended my Digital Electronics class with a very good mark. I also did very well in both CS courses I took. I would be pretty happy with either degree. What I was trying to figure out was, which degree would be better for me to have? Both degrees would allow me to take the same courses, but the piece of paper I have when I graduate is probubly going to determine which industry I am better suited for. Right now, I'm pretty indifferent over which one I get, but I don't want to enter a job market which is saturated and is going to be horrible to find a job in.
Don't get me wrong, if I was accepted into UW for CS, I would have gone there instead of WLU. But I wasn't. I was a lazy ass during high school and came out with an average 2% too low to get into CS at UW. There is nothing wrong with CS at Laurier, it's just not as well known as UW. From what I hear, the quality of the degree has improved over the past few years.
Also, yes, I do realize I forgot a space in the above comment.
I feel that I am entitled to atleast one grammer mistake before taking more english.
Your right, I should have. However, when I was applying to universities last year, the admission averages were the highest they have ever been. I missed the required average by about 2%, but WLU is still a really good school. I am seriously thinking, depending on what I end up majoring in, is to either go for a masters or engineering at UW when I graduate from WLU.
Yep, i was about 6 when i got a graphics card for my birthday, it displayed colour! (dec 1992)
I was a high school student up to june. Most high schools in Ontario at one point offered programming courses, but it seems that the interet in the subject has begun to decrease in popularity. While i was in grade 10, there were about 60-70 students enrolled in computer science, but by the time I reached grade 11, they had decided to cancel the grade 12 computer science course for the next year. Thus I was forced to take grade 12 computer science in grade 11. In other words, it went from 60-70 students per grade enrolled, to just over 20 students from two seperate grades. Of those 20 students, I'd say that there were only about 10 truly interested in computer science who actually wished to pursue it at post secondary, with myself being one of them. With those numbers, I'd say it would be pretty hard to put on any programming competition with strong numbers in attendence. It could be that interested people just didnt have time to enroll in computer science, but I'd make sure that there is interest in the high school before attempting anything large.