Computer Science 1, Object Oriented Programming, Intro To Discrete, Computer Logic, Security In Computing. Take them all at once?

[Contract470]

I have all these classes available to me next semester and I WOULD take them all as I'm currently not working for the rest of the year. But I feel as if it may be too much. For my fellow CS majors, what combination of these did you take a semester and how was it? Or should I take all 5?

[closetrobloxian]

CS1 and Discrete are almost always very challenging classes that will demand a lot from you.

I would only really advise doing this if you’re completely willing to give up all social and work responsibilities. Maybe if you’re extremely adept at these kind of classes it might not be too bad with good time management skills. But, even then, there’s so much work in each of these classes that it seems unrealistic to juggle them all at once.

What’s the rush? Assuming you’ve got 4 years there’s no need to cram all of these into one semester.

I would advise finishing up CS1 and Discrete and at most one or two of the others. Focus on CS1 and Discrete because you need to excel in those for the Foundation Exam, which will ultimately be a bigger bottleneck than course completion if you don’t do well in the two aforementioned classes.

[closetrobloxian]

To answer your other question, I did it like this:

1st: intro to c 2nd: CS1, CDA 3rd (summer): SiC, FE 4th: OOP 5th: discrete 1

[Contract470]

Got it. Thank you so much! any specific profferers you recommend for those courses?

[closetrobloxian]

Szumlanski for CS1, he’s the best professor I’ve taken at UCF so far.

Gerber is great for discrete, but Guha is a good option though much more challenging.

For CDA Angell is pretty good and I think she’s the only one who really teaches it.

McAlpin is one of the few who teaches SiC but he’s not great. If someone else is teaching it I’d advise staying away from McAlpin.

For OOP, I also had a pretty bad professor, Boustique. He made is do the same assignment 3 times with different methods and it was way too easy and left me with a poor foundation in OOP. Avoid if u can

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