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How did you graduate with a CS degree?

eru 5y ago
Depends on which country you are in. Not sure eg in Germany you have to do that much calculus for a CS degree. (Though, what do you mean by calculus? I assume you mean integration and differentiation and real numbers and stuff? Or something else?)
kccqzy 5y ago
In my school, to get the CS degree you only need as much calculus as needed to get to the second Physics course, which covers electromagnetism. You don't need a deep understanding of calculus. A lot of applications of calculus in the course can be handled by rote memorization. I took extra calculus classes from the math department. Those are way harder than what you need for introductory physics.
MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago
My college just removed Calculus as a requirement...Although that could be partially because they have such a crazy high dropout rate for the compsci program. Graduation rate at the school as a whole is < 50%. I think they average like 10-30 comp sci majors a semester with an average student population of 4,000. Most students get scared off by the psychotic "teach as though this is an ivy league school" new teachers who get fired in two to four semesters because not a single student gives them a positive review.
k__ 5y ago
Persistence.
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NikolaNovak 5y ago
Not op but for fwiw, in my university you only needed about as much calculus for ComSci as you would learn in IB/AP High school courses with a good prof anyway. Maybe a bit more but it was mostly a repeat. (I recall one day in 3rd year calculus course realizing "wait a second... I don't need to be here!". I just kept signing up for calculus every year since 11th grade and suddenly realized I don't need, don't want, and don't like the class nor the prof I was in, and that was one pain less I could instill upon myself :)
smaudet 5y ago
As others have mentioned 'calculus' can mean one of five or six classes (I, II, III, advanced, diffyQ, probably more), basic differentiation is not hard, most of calc is some tricks a computer can learn or do better. At least to my knowledge there is no 'theory of calculus' which allows one to solve generic integrals or differentials, calc is as much an unrelated art to comp sci as learning to play chess will help with accounting.

eru 5y ago

Depends on which country you are in. Not sure eg in Germany you have to do that much calculus for a CS degree. (Though, what do you mean by calculus? I assume you mean integration and differentiation and real numbers and stuff? Or something else?)

kccqzy 5y ago

In my school, to get the CS degree you only need as much calculus as needed to get to the second Physics course, which covers electromagnetism. You don't need a deep understanding of calculus. A lot of applications of calculus in the course can be handled by rote memorization. I took extra calculus classes from the math department. Those are way harder than what you need for introductory physics.

MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago

My college just removed Calculus as a requirement...Although that could be partially because they have such a crazy high dropout rate for the compsci program. Graduation rate at the school as a whole is < 50%. I think they average like 10-30 comp sci majors a semester with an average student population of 4,000. Most students get scared off by the psychotic "teach as though this is an ivy league school" new teachers who get fired in two to four semesters because not a single student gives them a positive review.

k__ 5y ago

Persistence.

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NikolaNovak 5y ago

Not op but for fwiw, in my university you only needed about as much calculus for ComSci as you would learn in IB/AP High school courses with a good prof anyway. Maybe a bit more but it was mostly a repeat. (I recall one day in 3rd year calculus course realizing "wait a second... I don't need to be here!". I just kept signing up for calculus every year since 11th grade and suddenly realized I don't need, don't want, and don't like the class nor the prof I was in, and that was one pain less I could instill upon myself :)

smaudet 5y ago

As others have mentioned 'calculus' can mean one of five or six classes (I, II, III, advanced, diffyQ, probably more), basic differentiation is not hard, most of calc is some tricks a computer can learn or do better. At least to my knowledge there is no 'theory of calculus' which allows one to solve generic integrals or differentials, calc is as much an unrelated art to comp sci as learning to play chess will help with accounting.