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As I happen to know which course you're talking about, I would point out that the module of CS you took was the far easier half of the first year material, whic

As I happen to know which course you're talking about, I would point out that the module of CS you took was the far easier half of the first year material, which was open to people from a variety of other subjects, and designed with that in mind. (And indeed, the Maths dept recognises this and doesn't reduce the workload to compensate for Maths students who choose it.) While I wouldn't say the rest of the course pushed me exceptionally hard, and I do wonder if Mathematics might have been more useful overall, I don't think that module is particularly representative of the difficulty of the CS course.

lmm 10y ago
> As I happen to know which course you're talking about, I would point out that the module of CS you took was the far easier half of the first year material, which was open to people from a variety of other subjects, and designed with that in mind. (And indeed, the Maths dept recognises this and doesn't reduce the workload to compensate for Maths students who choose it.) I did everything other than the hardware module (digital electronics) AIUI? (Which was maybe the hardest part for some people, but doesn't really correspond to the kind of thing that's asked in interviews).
- aninhumer 10y ago
  My understanding is that your course sits one of the two CS Papers? They tend to move modules around a lot, but based on a quick look through past years' material, I'm fairly sure Paper 2 would have covered significantly more than Digital Electronics in your year.
  - lmm 10y ago
    I don't remember which paper was which. I think my year ended up doing more courses than they'd originally planned because of a miscommunication between the departments about what was going to be covered where? I did an ML course, a Java course, Operating Systems, and part of Data Structures & Algorithms before I looked through the notes and decided I knew it all (and I think I also glanced over notes for a discrete maths course earlier in the year?). Certainly when comparing notes with full ("50%") compsci friends I remember Digital Electronics was the only obvious thing I was missing. Come to think about it I do remember talking about a friend's question on sorting algorithms in an exam that I hadn't done myself. So possibly Data Structures & Algorithms wasn't on the exam for me? Afraid it was too long ago to remember exactly.

lmm 10y ago

> As I happen to know which course you're talking about, I would point out that the module of CS you took was the far easier half of the first year material, which was open to people from a variety of other subjects, and designed with that in mind. (And indeed, the Maths dept recognises this and doesn't reduce the workload to compensate for Maths students who choose it.) I did everything other than the hardware module (digital electronics) AIUI? (Which was maybe the hardest part for some people, but doesn't really correspond to the kind of thing that's asked in interviews).

aninhumer 10y ago
My understanding is that your course sits one of the two CS Papers? They tend to move modules around a lot, but based on a quick look through past years' material, I'm fairly sure Paper 2 would have covered significantly more than Digital Electronics in your year.
- lmm 10y ago
  I don't remember which paper was which. I think my year ended up doing more courses than they'd originally planned because of a miscommunication between the departments about what was going to be covered where? I did an ML course, a Java course, Operating Systems, and part of Data Structures & Algorithms before I looked through the notes and decided I knew it all (and I think I also glanced over notes for a discrete maths course earlier in the year?). Certainly when comparing notes with full ("50%") compsci friends I remember Digital Electronics was the only obvious thing I was missing. Come to think about it I do remember talking about a friend's question on sorting algorithms in an exam that I hadn't done myself. So possibly Data Structures & Algorithms wasn't on the exam for me? Afraid it was too long ago to remember exactly.