| Courses: M301 Software Systems |
| M261 The maths for computer course. I never did get to grips
with Proof by Induction. |
| T223
The microprocessor-oriented course, hosted by the Technology faculty (T).This course may
have changed over the years, but my impression was that it was a diversity of subjects
looking for a focus. |
| S102 has now been superceded by S103. It was the foundation
level entry course for the sciences. It had a residential school, I went to Reading when I
wanted to go to Stirling! |
| M205 was the Fundamentals of Computing course, my first course
as an Associate Student with the University. I found it hard work! It used UCSD Pascal to
teach the fundamentals of sequential programming. None of this OOPS lark! |
| M357 was the Data Modelling course for, mainly relational
databases....so help me Codd. |
| M353 was the higher level Programmming Language course - using
Pascal, Prolog and Eiffel. The main theme being Abstract Data Types. |
| M457 was the project for Databases. For me, you can get too
much database know-how! |
| I tried the post graduate OOPS course, M868, used as a module
of the Post Graduate Certificate. This used mainly Smalltalk for its examples. |
| With all that I could become a member of the Alumni community. |
| I think that through the years the Open University has
changed. It feels a bit more commercial, with partnerships with banks and more specialised
Degree names. It does still remain a fruitful avenue for my pursuits and does still leave
me spellbound. |
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