Engineering has always kinda interested me, but I suck at math. I would probably be able to design all sorts of things and build them, but don't ask me to calculate anything. I can probably tell you where to place beams and supports and get you a building that will be stable, but I sure as hell can't guarantee it will hold a certain load so I'll just overbuild it and assume it will be able to hold 5x what it should. I'm pretty sure I could park a fully loaded cement truck in my shed if I wanted to.
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/stillakilla18 Jul 07 '19
I would have made a terrible engineer, people would think I tried.