28 Mar 04
Originally posted by Toeit's now very good-not as good as edinburgh for research, granted, but still good. it's recently been moved into a new building, and it's getting an extension to that. and the computer labs are pretty damn good too...they use j-builder (java by borland, i think). anyone else know the workload?...😛
The computing department at St Andrews isn't the best, or wasn't some 15 years ago anyway. They taught computing using "S-Algol", a truly dead language but I think some of the staff had something to do with creating it. Then again, I only did it in first year, so perhaps I judge poorly. As for the first year work load, well computing was hardly worth turning up to it was so basic (boom boom?). Get the notes or read the texts and sleep in if you can.