--- Erin Sharmahd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally, I found cs142 to not be overly
> difficult... Actually, I
> thought it was easy, and I found the jump from that
> to cs235 to be
> difficult. However, my friends who went into it
> with no programming
> experience found it rather difficult.
> I have found that some people (not myself) seem to
> have an inherent
> "knack" for programming, while others of us have to
> struggle to
> understand the concepts. A lot of this comes from
> experience, but
> some of it just comes from how the brain works...
I think I kind of have a knack for programming. I may
not be the very best programmer, or write the best
code, but I understand how it works, and I can usually
get the job done fairly quickely. I had absolutely no
experience going in to CS 142 and found the lectures
to be helpful as well as the book, and I found CS 235
to be fairly easy as well, and CS 236 wasn't too bad,
either.
> I know that both my introduction to the CS program,
> and that of my
> friends, would have been a bit more pleasant if
> there was a class
> before cs142...
I think that my introduction to programming in 142 and
240 actually, are what have made me wish now (as a
senior in Computer Engineering, taking classes that
are WAY too hard for me, like Probabilty Theory) that
I'd chosen to be a CS major.
Not that I'm saying you're wrong or anything, I just
thought that it was intersting that our experiences
were different, be it because of teachers, TA's,
books, or previous experience.
> I have found that many classes here at BYU have a
> tendency to assume
> that students know certain material that is not
> covered in
> prerequisite classes.
> ~Erin
Or rely on material from classes that Aren't
prerequisites. That's why my stupid Probability
Theory class is soo hard. As a Comp Eng Math 214 is
an elective that I never wanted to take, yet it is
assumed in this class that we have taken it,despite it
not being a prereq for the class.
I should have been a CS major. But then, the hardware
classes are pretty darn cool.
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Ryan Bowman
The door at the end of the tunnel is far too small...
- Closing In 2.0 - Don't Be Afraid - insoc.org
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