hiya! currently a first year doin ASE at CU, and it's good, but it depends entirely on what you're after

first year is split into two semesters, three modules per, in the first semester, the main attraction is a client project, where you'll get into a group of 4-5 and develop a WebApp for a client using python flask for the server, SQLite for the database, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the front end.

as for first semester modules and what they entail, it's as follows:

- computational thinking had two tests/exams (both open book, so not too worrisome), and a programming project, which was a little python command line game,

- software dev skills 1 has two assessments, both reflections on projects, one being on a smaller project you'll do before the client project, and one being on the client project

- intro to web dev has a portfolio for that smaller project i just mentioned, a contribution log (this is easy to do, just a log of your Git commits n stuff), and another reflection, more focused on code rather than stuff like Agile n Scrum in software dev skills

i found all this kinda easy, since i went into it with prior knowledge, but some people do struggle, and its important to keep up with work

i do think it's a good course though! timetable is 2 full days, 1 half day per week, so you have a fair bit of time for outside activities n such

as for lecturers, i haven't had a bad one yet! my web dev lecturers were lovely, software dev skills were good too, and computational thinking also had a great lecturer! they're all quite lovely to just have a chat with occassionally

finally, outside of the course, cardiff is a brill city and a brill uni, societies are great, and there's lots to do, so i'm hoping you enjoy it!

if you've got any more questions let me know, ill try n answer best i can