I will be taking Computer Science for the first time in college. I have never taken this course in jr high or high school. Because astronomy was all full I was stuck with computer science. Can anyone give me some insight on what this class consists of? thanks.
Depends on exactly what class you are taking, the norm is Java and C++. Ofcourse, you might be in one of those "computer science" classes that just teach you how to use programs (power point). Java isn't that bad, I found it easier than C++.
Was that a shot at my age? I think it was!!! Why would you want to beat down on an old 34 year old like that? j/k
I'm not sure how your school does it, but I took an intro (100 level) computer science my first year of college and it was basically just working with all of the Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint). The class was "Introduction to Computer Science" for non-CS majors. I'm pretty sure you won't be doing too much programming, if any as long as you are in the intro course. The programming classes are mostly for CS majors.
Too bad...I hear chicks get really turned on when you start talking about the smeared out density of matter...
Since it is an intro class, it should be just the basics. But consider how much we use computers these days, an intro computer class could be quite benefiting for college students.
Depends what you take and where you take it. Most schools have an introductory computer class for everyone/ nonmajors. This tells you where the "on" switch is located and how to use Microsoft Office. On the other hand, the hardcore introductory Computer Science courses will make you do programming. Look up the description of the course in your school's catalog.
Say goodbye to your social life. Both have been tried before and now you call those people Economics majors. Maybe in 5 years you can vest yourself in some recreational drinking.
So did we, and I'm only 30. I took the 2nd hardest intro computer course out of the four options offered at Rice. (Hardest - the real intro comp sci course, for comp sci majors and electrical engineers; next was engineering computation for any other engineering majors, then natural science computation, then the one for everybody else (showing you the on switch and Microsoft Office).) Engineering computation kicked my arse. This was the first year they offered it and I get the idea they didn't know what they were doing. I only passed because of the Matlab half of the course (they like that Matlab program over there, and we'd used it in math class). The FORTRAN programming half of the course was crazy. I stayed in the computer lab pretty much all night every night for a month and never could get a single one of those suckers to work. It was already becoming obsolete. Some of y'all are meant to program computers, and some of us are not. What's really sad is that I took BASIC in high school - in 1991. We were kind of behind back there in the South...
I remember taking the UT @ Austin Pascal programming introductory course. That wasn't an easy class by any stretch. It was clearly a weed out class. You had to come into the lab and take these quizzes until you passed them which were really hard by the end. Those programs were rather difficult to write as well(insert recursion flashback from hell). The final was something to behold. The professor didn't speak English well to top it all off so lectures were bleh. Yeah...I only got a C in that class. A lot of work went into that class just to get the C.
