There are a few differences in the year 3 and year 2. For year 2, the lectures are spread across and the students can be more focus in each and every chapters.
For year 3, the first 2 weeks are intensive lectures conducted by the professors from the university in Australia. They will fly to Singapore to conduct the lecturers - and mostly for part-time, it is every weekdays from 7:00pm to 10:00pm. Mostly, the lecturers will try to end at 10:00pm, but as you know, the lecturers has limited time in Singapore, so they might take a bit longer if they cannot finish in time and for sure, they will start the lecture on 7:00pm sharp. Sometimes, you may even need to come back in Saturday for some courses from morning 9:00am to 5:00pm for lectures.
After the completion of 2 weeks, all the lecture notes are basically covered. Now, it is the time for tutorials and labs. You are advised not to miss these since it is also the time the tutor will discuss with the students for the assignments. The assignments are marked by tutor and in some cases, the tutor will make some agreement on the submission date and type of submission. It is important to know these information.
You can ask and discuss with tutor for any difficulties or lecture notes during that time. But don't ask for any exam tips because they will not tell you or rather they have no idea what the exam paper is. But the tutors will be like your mentor for any courses. For every lectures and tutorials, you need to sign for the attendance. One of the exam criteria is attendance and don't forget to sign.
Normally, each student will take 2 subjects per term and each term is about 2 months. It is kind of rushing and most students will struggle with the deadlines for assignments. If you are part-time student, try not to take so many subjects unless you are sure that you can cope it. The assignments are not so easy and it will take days.
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Required Skill Set
I just graduated from University of Wollongong from SIM campus with Digital Security Systems. In this blog, I will give some suggestions to those who are going into the univerity of wollongong (UOW in short) in singapore campus and taking the same course as I did. This information might not be 100% accurate, but it is to my best knowledge.
This course requires you to have some programming skills (either Java or C++). This two programming are mainly used for this course. C++ is in fact the most favourite in this course since you have to do the programming in Window and Linux OS. Some courses are explained based on C++ coding and the assignments are in C++ as well. I didn't know Java programming until my FYP since i am using C++ for all the courses. Most importantly, you will also learn the shell programming, simple perl coding, as well as some SQL commands. The choice of programming should not be your problem if you are a good programmer. Programmer should be able pick up any programming language since the basis idea and the fundenmental remain the same.
There are some mathematics involved. CSCI466 was the one, but recently, it was abandomed by the university. It involves understanding of probability - such as a signal "1" passing through a medium might change to "0" accidentally due to some noise. Understanding of this will help the programmer to write his program such that the code can automatically recover the corrupted data. It is a good course to learn, but some people hate it. Computer is like complicated calculator. It defintely involve the mathematics and the software student should know about it.
Some theroies like Network Attack, Distributed System, Buffer Overrun, System Administration and some Crytotography will be involved. Crytography is complicated, but try to admire it by understanding - you will love the crytography if you like to understand some puzzles.
Basically, this is for year 2 and year 3. For year 1, it is the fundemental and if you had the diploma in related field, you could be exempted. For year 3 bridge students (directly to year 3), it might be some struggles initially because some of you has left the schools for some times and didn't remember. Some might not have learn Linux in their diplomas and it is hard for them.
After all, this degree is not easy, but very interesting. The most most important thing - your learning attitude towards new things - accept it, learn it, acquire it and love the way it is..
This course requires you to have some programming skills (either Java or C++). This two programming are mainly used for this course. C++ is in fact the most favourite in this course since you have to do the programming in Window and Linux OS. Some courses are explained based on C++ coding and the assignments are in C++ as well. I didn't know Java programming until my FYP since i am using C++ for all the courses. Most importantly, you will also learn the shell programming, simple perl coding, as well as some SQL commands. The choice of programming should not be your problem if you are a good programmer. Programmer should be able pick up any programming language since the basis idea and the fundenmental remain the same.
There are some mathematics involved. CSCI466 was the one, but recently, it was abandomed by the university. It involves understanding of probability - such as a signal "1" passing through a medium might change to "0" accidentally due to some noise. Understanding of this will help the programmer to write his program such that the code can automatically recover the corrupted data. It is a good course to learn, but some people hate it. Computer is like complicated calculator. It defintely involve the mathematics and the software student should know about it.
Some theroies like Network Attack, Distributed System, Buffer Overrun, System Administration and some Crytotography will be involved. Crytography is complicated, but try to admire it by understanding - you will love the crytography if you like to understand some puzzles.
Basically, this is for year 2 and year 3. For year 1, it is the fundemental and if you had the diploma in related field, you could be exempted. For year 3 bridge students (directly to year 3), it might be some struggles initially because some of you has left the schools for some times and didn't remember. Some might not have learn Linux in their diplomas and it is hard for them.
After all, this degree is not easy, but very interesting. The most most important thing - your learning attitude towards new things - accept it, learn it, acquire it and love the way it is..
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