I chose the course as it had a much more practical element to it than many other courses at equivalent universities which seem to offer a much more theoretical approach.

I learned a lot about the various programming techniques available, as well as the wider areas of computer science such as the professional and human issues.

The part that I found most interesting was the Final Year Project, as it gave me the chance to research an area of computer science that I had no prior knowledge of and then use this knowledge to design and implement my own system based upon it.

 

Yes.  There was always the resources that I needed to complete my work, without any exception that I can recall.

 

Yes.  I made friends with a number of people on the course, as well as the various halls of residence that I lived in and societies that I was part of.

 

I am a graduate developer for the Open University.

 

I have always had a deep interest in computers and feel that I was always going to enter a computer based career.  I feel that the course has given me the resources to enter at a level that I would otherwise not have been able to achieve at my current age.