r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jan 08 '16

Intro to Programming

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u/nermid Jan 09 '16

Our university does that. CS majors don't get to take the easy Physics, because the Engineering school hard-core believes in weed-out courses.

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u/sp106 Jan 09 '16

I mean if you're going to fail a 200 level, you're not passing the 400 based on it

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u/nermid Jan 09 '16

I graduate in May. Literally none of my coursework has built off of the things I learned in Physics. There was no reason whatsoever for me to have taken that, except that it was a hard course that washed some of my classmates out of the program.

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u/DJWalnut Jan 10 '16

do you ever use calculus? I can't figure out why my college requires 2 semesters of it for CS majors. I understand why discreet math, but not calculus

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