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My first CS class saw half drop the class by the end. By the end of my second CS course it was similar. Probably 75% of people taking CS courses stopped takin
by RajT88 3y ago
My first CS class saw half drop the class by the end. By the end of my second CS course it was similar. Probably 75% of people taking CS courses stopped taking them by the end of my freshman year.
A smaller contingent dropped out in the later years, but still by the time I was at the 400 level, class sizes were quite small.
Other sciences were like this (but not Biology or Psychology for some reason).
- scotty79 3y agoWhen I studied 50% dropped out after first year. Most after the first semester. It was solely because the course was very math heavy.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoAbout half had dropped when we got to pointers in Turbo Pascal.
- matwood 3y agoHah! Feel like we were in the same program. The pointer abstraction is the first big mental leap in CS.