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I studied in the UK. I think our systems are rather different because a lot of that stuff is taught in secondary school, so you're expected to know it before st
by ldjb 10y ago
I studied in the UK. I think our systems are rather different because a lot of that stuff is taught in secondary school, so you're expected to know it before starting uni.
Which is all well and good if you stay on at secondary school (or attend a sixth form college) until you're 18, then go straight on to uni. But that doesn't apply to everyone (some people leave school at 16, or take a break before going to uni). So I can imagine that a lot of CS graduates here in the UK would have studied these aspects of maths quite some time back (and therefore can't remember them very well) or not have studied them at all.
- Insanity 10y agoOne of my close friends studied in the UK. University of bedfordshire, which was also a computer science degree. Compared to me (Belgian university), he indeed barely got any mathematics, but I always thought that was just because of the university.
- muninn_ 10y agoThat makes sense, well, that it happened, at least. Typically those topics are covered in US schools before university as well, just they are covered in more depth and rigor again in university and with the applications of those topics to CS as well. In the US we have this body called ABET which helps define a standard engineering curriculm.