For more information please click-here: A Day With Project Ara, Google’s Crazy Modular Phone.
Checkout Swansea’s School of Applied Computing New YouTube Channel for Graduate interviews hints tips and more:
Q. What was your HE course?
I completed the BSc (Hons) Computer Games Development.
Q. What is your job title and role?
Currently I am a Software Developer at Quicklink. I work on updating software, and new projects. A lot of it has been for Mac and iPhone.
Q. Could you briefly describe the organization you work for?
Quicklink deals with providing broadcast solutions for people out in the field, such as reporters and television companies who require live streaming from remote locations.
Q. Which skills learned at University are helpful to you in your job?
A few of the key skills include:
– Adapting to different programming languages
– multi-threading
– software development
– networking.
Q. What aspects of your job do you enjoy most?
I haven’t found a task I like the most within the company, at least not as much as my previous position as a project assistant at the University. If I had to choose something I would say working on our software on the iphone.
Q. Do you have any advice for students who would like to start a Career?
The only advice I would give is work hard in all your subject areas. My overall grade was not brilliant because I didnt focus on subjects I was weaker in. Apply for everything! Even if you think there is no way you could get the job based on your final grades. It seems like people want programmers badly!
Happy New Year
2015
Happy New Year to all students, staff and friends of the School of Applied Computing! We hope you have had a pleasant festive season.
To kick off the New Year, here is a new graduate profile of Graham Rees-Evans who graduated in 2009. Find out what he’s doing now here.
Here’s a little post to introduce you to your magical, mischievous, ever-so-helpful, elf-like subject librarian ;-). Our resident librarian on the Mount Pleasant Campus Owen Library is Suzanne Taylor (below middle). Computing students, please get in touch with Suzanne if you need any help in finding or accessing library resources.
Q. Favourite Christmas movie:
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ as it shows the positive impact one person can have upon so many lives or ‘The Holiday’ because I would love to spend Christmas in Kate Winslet’s country cottage.
Q. Favourite Christmas book:
It would probably have to be A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Q. Favourite Christmas food:
A roast turkey or chicken dinner with all the trimmings, – minus the sprouts :-).
Q. One of the best things about Christmas:
There’s something very special about driving to see family early on a frosty Christmas morning when the roads are empty. Also walking my dog on a beach on Boxing Day and seeing him chase the ball along the tide’s edge.
Here’s a new graduate profile for Makhlukat Hassan who graduated from BEng Computer Networks Technology a few years back – nice to hear from you, Mak!
Gower college students from Gorseinon campus visited School of Applied Computing on 1st Dec 2014 for a tailor made taster session on Computer Networks.
Dr Stephen Hole, Head of School (second from the right) welcomed the students and staff on their arrival. The taster session was organised by Dr Kapilan Radhakrishnan (far left) and Dr Carlene Campbell far right) and was designed to give the students an idea of what is involved in the HN/BSc Computer Networks Programme. Kapilan started the session and the students were given details of the advantages of studying computer networking, job prospects in the field, and additional professional qualifications that they can achieve to enhance their Career prospects whilst studying within the School without any extra cost. Later, Carlene took over and gave the students hands-on experience setting-up security on a network and white-hat hacking. The students really enjoyed the session and gave a lot of positive feedback.
What an Amazing Weekend ;-). Well done and Congratulations to all Applied Computing Students and Graduates who participated in Swansea Start-up Weekend (#SWS) – You were ‘Amazing‘.
All participants of this fantastic Weekend are Winners. A Special mention to:
- BIT Graduate ‘Elliot Thomas’ (CEO of ‘Fuzmo‘.com) and his Team who *WON* the Swansea Start-up Weekend 2014, 2nd place Team Winners included Reham Al-Shaibani (2nd Yr BIT student) and Jordan Sparkes (2nd Yr Computer Games student) and 3rd place Team Winner Samuel Riley (Final Year BIT student).
- BIT Year 2 Students Elisha Arnold, Alexander Page and Lauren Collins narrowly missed out on 3rd place along with Richard Gleed’s Team including Abdulaziz Almegren and Yr2 Web Development student Kelvin Beukes.
- Software Engineering Graduate Edd Turtle and Web Development Graduate Ben Gillot also narrowly missed the top 3 price winning spots. All created Amazingly innovative new tech business opportunities and performed brilliantly all weekend.
* WELL DONE EVERYONE *
Thank you very much to the Organisation Team for providing such a fantastic Opportunity for our students and Graduates including James Pack, Kathryn Penaluna, Adam Curtin, Rod Thomas, Sue Poole, Matt Warren, Helen Hall, Colin Lucas, Andy Penaluna, Will Fleming and James Williams.
Two new Graduate Profiles has been posted for Monica Phan (Graduated with a BSc (Hons) Web Development in 2014) and Guy Corrella (Graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Business Information Technology in 2012). Read all about what they’re up to now!
After Graduating earlier this year Simon Bennett tells us about his time at University of Wales Trinity Saint David studying for a BSc (Hons) in Web Development:
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