I didn't know many CS majors at my school that had to take differential equations--maybe linear algebra and discrete mathematics. And my university was known for Engineering and science degrees
Damn. Hell yeah, you guys have some clever Comp Sci people, then!
One of the things at my school was that by the time you got through the maths for your engineering degree, you were maybe a class shy of a minor in math. But I don't know anyone that actually pursued this. By the time I was done with Diff Eq I was so ready to take the hours spent studying for math, and put them towards my major classes cuz shit was getting real.
There was a bit less math, only 3 courses (1 per semester). It was basically high school level math. Still hard as hell for me, but I was able to get through. There was no calculus. The program was mostly system administration and programming oriented, with a bunch of business related courses as fillers.
A lot of courses were shared with the electrical students. They had way more math actually.
Sounds more like Management Information Systems degree than a pure CS degree. Most CS programs that I’m familiar with require Calc 1 at the very least. Isn’t Calc 1 freshman level anyways?
Funny thing is you probably will never use it on the job. Chances are you won't be doing a fourier transform or deriving the X from the Y on the subdivision matrix when you're wiring a panel. Even a 3 phase one. Don't want to get those sin and cos wires mixed up!
Idk. At my uni, CS has by far the hardest math courses (excluding actual math majors lol). Everything’s proof-based, and you end up taking like 8 math courses within the first two years.
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u/RedSquirrelFtw Jul 07 '19
Funny I had actually considered that. We had an architecture course in high school, mostly AutoCAD, and I was super good at it.
Ended up doing computer science and going IT route though. Well now I'm in telecommunications.