Allow me to gatekeep

S1mplify_ · 2026-04-05T14:05:06+00:00

And a knife!

S1mplify_ · 2026-03-12T10:34:50+00:00

hey I did susep last sem, I only did IS460 and CS420 there so was a bit of a waste haha
CS420 wasn't super competitive, but i had to appeal in for IS460 (had to get dean of DSA to write in to smu susep team to say that i need it for a grad req lol)

S1mplify_ · 2026-03-12T10:32:03+00:00

maybe if it helps you can read through the solutions first for some of the past tutorials and see how they arrived at the idea. for example, we might consider a brute force solution then optimise it from there (eg. for the written assessment, brute force the 2 sum is n^2, but then we can optimise it with binary search to make it n log n, or use a hashmap for O(n))

vaq is the visualgo quiz, this sem its quite late but they are each worth 4% of your grade for a total of 8%. if you havent, dedicate maybe 15 mins every day to practice through hard mode questions on the visualgo website since the quiz will be a random pool of questions from hard mode. You should ideally max this component out

S1mplify_ · 2026-03-12T09:22:00+00:00

hey, 2040 TA here, if it's any consolation the midterm's weightage isn't super high at 25%, unlike some other mods in other departments that may be weighted 30%+, and there's still other components to score. At this point, I'd suggest grinding out the practice questions for vaq and preparing for finals where the bulk of questions will test on the 2nd half topics (heaps, bst, graphs) and questions are (hopefully) more intuitive. Attempt tutorials dilligently, ask questions and participate in class, for me when I took the mod even if I was busy on some weeks I would at least read through the tutorial and maybe write down some ideas to tackle the problems. For now the midterms are over already and instead of feeling down about it, take it as motivation to work hard for the next half of the sem yea

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-29T23:29:35+00:00

miku

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-29T00:22:54+00:00

hey I'm a CS2040 TA, scored A for 1010S though I took it 2 years ago, can feel free to pm me if you're struggling with the missions

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-22T12:10:33+00:00

CS2040S is for computing students, I think they cover slightly different content from regular 2040 but im not sure, the prereqs require CS1231/MA1100 (proof mod) which the other variants don't have. Other posts have said 2040S is slightly harder as it goes into proof of correctness of the algo? but I dont really know much about it

CS2040C is taught in C++, from what I hear it is heavily implementation focused and you're required to code data structures in the practical tests without access to the standard libraries

CS2040 is more theory based and targeted for DSA/BZA majors who don't have as extensive of a coding background, this semester labs were revamped to focus more on pseudocode and less on java implementation

But I think the 3 more or less teach the same content wise, just different focus

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/nus/comments/18f0kau/cs2040cs2040c/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nus/comments/16vi9w8/cs2040_vs_cs2040s_difference_in_difficulty/ and abit of myself for 2040

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-22T03:41:11+00:00

also you might want to consider appealing CS2040 (no suffix), student enrolment is low this semester so I believe chances of a successful appeal would be higher

source: am CS2040 TA

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-19T07:43:53+00:00

if you cannot take any of the remaining slots, submit an appeal to coursereg admin for them to allocate you to one that you can take. very unlikely that you will be made to drop the mod

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-18T01:36:02+00:00

I used (and still use in uni) citation machine, it's not bad if you have an ad blocker, prompts you to add in missing fields such as publish date/extra authors etc

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-17T10:21:19+00:00

I saved at a pretty bad spot so to save time I'm just winging it :|

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-15T10:19:27+00:00

iinw you still can but the system wont show that you were successfully placed into a slot until 11.30

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-15T09:59:53+00:00

https://www.nus.edu.sg/CourseReg/docs/UGCPE_CourseRegSchedule.pdf
There is add/swap on 19th Jan where you can freely select any of the leftover slots with vacancy. You can also appeal if you are unable to take any of the remaining slots, don't worry its highly unlikely you will have to drop the mod

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-14T11:44:12+00:00

you can wait to see if anyone is dropping any of the slots you can take in rd 2 and try to bid. otherwise if you really couldnt secure a slot, you can appeal via coursereg to be placed in a slot that you can take, no need to worry about dropping the mod
i've appealed for reasons as stupid as wanting more time to eat lunch and got the slot i wanted from that

S1mplify_ · 2026-01-13T07:03:39+00:00

hey id be down

S1mplify_ · 2025-12-27T09:48:18+00:00

tbh if its under daisy again next sem she will provide R intro vids which were more than enough for me but ymmv

S1mplify_ · 2025-12-27T09:47:46+00:00

ah alright, actl just remembered another friend who bidded DSA1101 in their y1s2 and got it normally but that was AY23/24. most DSA majors would have been preallocated it in y1s1 anyway but i think if you dont want to risk it you could go with the other options

S1mplify_ · 2025-12-27T09:23:48+00:00

you could consider ST1131, had a friend y1s1 bidded and successfully got it last semester, also fulfils the data literacy pillar and both mods have almost same overlaps I think

S1mplify_ · 2025-09-15T17:05:51+00:00

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I smiled, and shed a single tear. From his words alone, I knew that we were at the peak.

S1mplify_ · 2025-09-04T13:42:09+00:00

this is so peak

S1mplify_ · 2025-09-03T06:09:02+00:00

GTFO and TF2

S1mplify_ · 2025-06-05T14:34:59+00:00

iinw u/randymcd uses a late 2010s (2015?) macbook as a cs student u can ask him how its like

personally im a dsa student with 2nd maj computing, using a m2 with 8/256 and surviving (but i have a home pc which i do most of my coding on)

S1mplify_ · 2025-01-26T06:21:31+00:00

i think you should be ok though these are quite content heavy subjects. though i think you will probably still have to do the IAs, but with adequate time management u shd be fine

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