comp sci is the hardest major out there

[latinfridley]

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cuz i said so.
proof :
exhibit A:
'A' in ochem, 'A' in physics, 'A' in biomed engineering, etc..

exhibit B:
the grade im bout to get on a Comp sci final i just took (which took the entire 3 hours to complete)

🙁
just ranting. no solid facts.

 

[silver_eyes]

😕

 

[14931]

Originally posted by latinfridley
cuz i said so.
proof :
exhibit A:
'A' in ochem, 'A' in physics, 'A' in biomed engineering, etc..

exhibit B:
the grade im bout to get on a Comp sci final i just took (which took the entire 3 hours to complete)

🙁
just ranting. no solid facts.

well u certainly havent taken any chemical engineering classes 😱

 

[latinfridley]

sorry, this thread was/is a personal rant that is entirely subjective, and utterly pointless. wish i could delete it, but i cant. it was posted after i got back from a ridiculous comp sci final.

 

[14931]

sorry to hear that 🙁 and u can do it , just edit the first post on this thread, and check the delete thing at the top of the page, that should to do it

 

[unhappy]

this one professor gave unlimited time for his midterms and final and you were escorted to and from the bathrooms. scary if you think about it. cs is more about the projects and the the experience you get out of them rather than the bits of theory that you get in lecture. by the time you leave school, the theory is possibly outdated.

 

[OnyxGaia]

Originally posted by latinfridley
cuz i said so.
proof :
exhibit A:
'A' in ochem, 'A' in physics, 'A' in biomed engineering, etc..

exhibit B:
the grade im bout to get on a Comp sci final i just took (which took the entire 3 hours to complete)

🙁
just ranting. no solid facts.

I feel ya. I took a "Programming in C" class a few years back with the teacher from hell.

First of all, this was a Saturday class and the guy always showed up at least 30 minutes late. Even though we only had to wait for 20 minutes we always waited because we wanted to learn so badly. He actually missed about 4 classes. We would just wait for about an hour and then leave only to find out from the office on the Monday that he never showed up.

He also seemed to be drunk most of the time. We complained to the department to no avail.

On the last day of the final, he didnt even show up. Needless to say they gave us our money back.

What a nightmare!

Onyx

 

[Neuronix]

I started out as a comp sci major and the only Bs I got in college I got in my comp sci classes. (Alright, I know already. Don't flame me!) The first one was in an intro to C++ course (after intro to C) and the professor, a graduate student, knew almost no English. How they certified him to teach I have no idea. He gave the exams from a different C++ course and everybody failed them miserably. In the end, the one student in the course who practically tought it get an A, and everyone else got grades we throught were pretty much random. My other B was another graduate student taught class I took over the summer. I spent like 18 hours trying to make some project work and even the professor couldn't help me after multiple consultations. The other students who did different things put alot of effort into theirs as well. I got an A in everything in that course except a B on that final project and ended up with a B in the class. We all think the guy wasn't even keeping the previous grades, cause everyone ended up with their final project grade as their final grade.

Comp Sci is a pain. I feel you.

 

[SunnyS81]

CS isn't hard. In fact, all my easiest classes (intro, java, SQL, etc.) have been in the CS department. I think electrical engineering or chemical engineering are the hardest. Definitely not CS though. When is the last time you found CS CONCEPTUALLY difficult? CS, much like chemistry, is labor intensive, but doesn't push your limits in reasoning and logic.

Take care.........last post until I figure out how to get internet access at home.

 

[merlin17]

Okay, I just gotta respond to the CS isn't hard comment...that completely depends on the school you go to. It also depends on how the intro CS courses are run.

Learning to program in Java, C++, SQL is easy for those that can easily think in that manner. At my undergrad, those were just languages used in the intro course, they certainly weren't taught. Our intro CS course wasn't conceptually difficult but the workload weeded out most potential CS majors. Semester II weeded out those that conceptually couldn't handle the subject. In fact, many people complain that both intro level courses are completely inappropriate for those that want to learn how to program, they teach no style, no languages...basically they produce programmers that write bad code that solves complicated problems...a horror for a software company =)

At my undergrad, math and CS were the two majors that weeded out anyone who wasn't pretty much brilliant.

I have actually had a lot of interviewers comment about how cool it was that I had stuck the two intro CS courses at my college out...I was one of less than ten girls that did so out of 200+ students. Most premeds don't take these courses at my school often because they are afraid of the low grade.

So don't worry about the CS grade, if your school's CS department is like mine it is great that you decided to take CS.

So go have a drink and celebrate because you just finished the final. It is done, you survived

Have a great winter break to all of you still in school ! Happy Holidays =)

 

[latinfridley]

Originally posted by SunnyS81
CS isn't hard. In fact, all my easiest classes (intro, java, SQL, etc.) have been in the CS department. I think electrical engineering or chemical engineering are the hardest. Definitely not CS though. When is the last time you found CS CONCEPTUALLY difficult? CS, much like chemistry, is labor intensive, but doesn't push your limits in reasoning and logic.

Take care.........last post until I figure out how to get internet access at home.

thanks for the uplift guys. as for cs conceptually, it depends. programming itself isnt hard at all. the final i took wasnt a programming class though, it was a class on mathematical proofs of algorithms, which is a bit*CH conceptually. the class wasnt a workload intensive class at all, i barely ever had hw. its the concepts that were tough. comp sci is not about programming languages at all. those are arbitrar and a necessariy eveil. its the cs concepts behind say algorithm design, digital system design, neural networking, AI, automata theory, etc... that are a pain. the programming is definitely not the problem, although debugging can be a real pain in the a** many times.
Speaking of cs.... one more cs final tonight. class is about hardware level computer design and logic... hope finals are treating everyone well!

 

[xaelia]

Half my Cs are in Computer Science....and the other half are in Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy and English.

You can do poorly in any class you set your mind to! 😎

As for the hardest major...that will obviously vary from person to person. If you had to take a poll (oooh, a poll!), I'm willing to wager the majority of votes would be for the engineering majors - Aeronautics, ChemE, CivE, EE, CS, Materials, MechE, etc.

Likewise, if you had to take a poll (ooh, a poll!) of Medical School admissions officers, I'm willing to wager the 3.5 in Human Biology at Stanford would not be as impressive to them as a 3.5 in Chemical Engineering at Stanford. They went to college once; I'm sure they steered clear of Finite Automata and Complexity Theory just as much as I wish I'd been able to.

Miaow.