Hmm...Thank you all for your replies - many on-list, so I will leave it
here for now. I'll be summarizing this for the school and any of you who
commented.
I found Sacha's comment interesting as it was the opposite of what the
school officials told me....
Sacha wrote:
> >From what I know of Ateneo, colleges tend to assume no prior
> background in computer science
Is this so for other schools? Can even CS students expect to survive the
first year if they don't already have some programming experience,no
matter how limited?
For Orly and those who suffered oppressive curriculae (?) - differential
equations was my nemesis - I have never been too good at things that you
"do it this way *because*, " and diff-eq's and much of Accountancy fall in
that category for me... But "mechanics of rigid bodies" sounds like
statics and dynamics. This really is core engineering, as Dido says. I
remember we had those subjects taught to us twice - the first time it was
a survey of both statics and dynamics mixed in with some other engineering
subjects. It made my head spin. But later, they split them into two
semesters, one statics the other dynamics, and I found myself saying "So
that's what they were trying to teach us before!" Perhaps you had only
the equivalent of the first. Go back to school and take the other two
semesters (shrinking back in fear as the crowd screams, "NEVER!!!!")
I remember when I was at Purdue, there was a big uproar among the
undergrads because the Engineering and CS students were being required to
take * 2 whole semesters * of English since Purdue decided they were
graduating too many illiterate engineers. So where do you draw the line?
Again, thanks all around...
Bob Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trillium Technologies Ent.
General Santos City, Philippines
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