I recently finished my first year at the University of Glasgow where I did Computer Science, Maths and Physics. I enjoyed it immensely and I cannot wait to go back in just over 3 weeks time (although I’ve still not decided exactly what courses I’ll be taking) when I’ll be doing Computer Science, Electric Engineering, C Programming under Linux and Exploring the Cosmos 1X.
This is an account of my thoughts about 1st year and will hopefully prove useful to anyone starting university soon.
I run Ubuntu as my primary operating system and as far as I’m concerned it’s the best operating system out there for me. Linux has come a long way in the last few years, it has become a much more viable desktop OS – even for the computer illiterate, such as my parents – and although Ubuntu isn’t solely responsible for this, it’s certainly been a big part of it.
The latest version, Karmic Koala, is scheduled for release in October. I’ve been running it for a little while now and although it’s still unstable, it’s very usable.
I’ve been working on a website for a Dumfries opticians, I think it’s coming along quite nicely.
I discovered Project Euler a few weeks ago while searching for something to keep my mind (and programming skills) busy during the holidays. Its proven itself to be exactly what I was looking for — if a bit more challenging than I was expecting.
Project Euler isn’t for everyone. If you don’t have a fairly decent grasp of maths and the ability to do a bit of coding then you will struggle with the vast majority of the 250+ problems. These are not easy. Of course if you’re willing to learn and have enough determination then the first few should be well within your reach.
I’ve been mulling over the idea of a blog covering Computer Science, the University of Glasgow and anything else I happen to find interesting for a while now.
As you can see, I decided to go ahead with it.
I’ll be posting about Project Euler when I find time and hope to write about my first year at the University of Glasgow (hint: I loved it) sometime soon.
I hope to be able to showcase some of my web design work here too. I’m always looking to earn a bit of extra money doing web design or programming work so if you think you have something to offer then please get in touch.
