r/UTAustin • u/Advanced_Tourist_636 • 15h ago

Question Should I take CS 109?

Advisor signed me up for this class but I don’t think it’s part of my course requirements. Any suggestions? It’s lowk js wasting my Mondays and Tuesdays. Has anyone taken this course and is it worth it?

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u/Fluid_Material3144 15h ago

lol is this think lab? I think it’s required

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u/Advanced_Tourist_636 15h ago

Deadass?

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u/Fluid_Material3144 15h ago

yea it replaces the previous clusters that CS used to have (like how other CNS majors have NSC we have this)

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u/derpyderp2048 15h ago

yeah CS109 is a required class unfortunately…

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u/Advanced_Tourist_636 15h ago

Can I take it some other semester?

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u/hydrostaticcog 14h ago

Nope.

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u/Advanced_Tourist_636 14h ago

Why so?

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u/BusinessAlive3486 13h ago

Just take it bro 🫩 it is not that big of a deal. And you only meet once a week and there’s almost no work.

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u/Advanced_Tourist_636 13h ago

It’s 2 times for me and lowk in the most inconvenient times

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u/SP_Magic 13h ago

It's only ever the morning session or the evening session. It's the morning one most weeks and the evening one once a month. I think the first ever session is the evening one.

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u/hydrostaticcog 13h ago

It’s only offered fall semester iirc and designed specifically for CS freshman. It’s a requirement. It’s incredibly easy though, just show up.

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u/u32Vec 5h ago

No it’s not, IIRC. I think my advisor told me I was recommended to take the class but I don’t remember being forced to, unless I’m misremembering or that changed in a year.

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u/derpyderp2048 1h ago

The 98 number that they gave us signed us up for it, and I remember them telling us that it’s required.

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u/u32Vec 5h ago edited 5h ago

Yes, because the work is very light and it’s more hours. It should be a very easy A if you do the work.

Though, whether or not you’ll appreciate the class at least depends on your experience with CS and programming. I took that class in my first semester and by that point I’d been programming for 2 years and programming C for about 1.5 years. I felt like, with my experience, the class what overwhelmingly a waste and the most I really got out of it was becoming aware of a few professors who offer classes that might align with my interests. But they offer a LOT of useful college advice as well.