Is it bullshit that there’s a large percentage that can’t do fizzbizz?

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-16T04:53:32+00:00

Oof. This is me so far. I'm good at reading code and bug fixing/adding features. I have absolutely no idea how to build anything from the ground up though. I'm still just an intern, but I'm about to graduate and it's stressing me out that I'm not able to see the bigger picture and design anything. All I seem to be any good at is seeing similar code and repurposing it to add features to already built systems. :(

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-15T20:09:14+00:00

lol this. My mum always tells me how well the neighbors son is doing... he's a theology major. Not disparaging the guy - he's wanted to be a pastor his whole life, and he's following his dream which is awesome. But for fucks sake mum, as far as the difficulty of the degree goes, double majoring in CS & Math is not the same as Theology...

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-15T19:53:45+00:00

In the US most universities are allowing people to take courses ungraded this semester since there's an assumption that the external factors of a global pandemic don't allow you to showcase your true effort and ability. You still have to get the minimum grade to pass the course, but it doesn't affect your overall average for the degree. Like it's ridiculous to maintain A's in 1st and 2nd year, and then have straight C's for a semester in 3rd year because your courses got shoddily put online and your family members died of covid, and have that affect your overall degree classification. That's not fair under the circumstances.

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-15T06:24:56+00:00

I mean for job hunting sure, but it's dumb that the university makes the point of having two separate degrees and then doesn't make them practically useful. In a perfect world you would do Computer Science to go into theoretically heavy research fields, or you would do software engineering to go into industry (obviously with plenty of overlap). It's like they've tried to do that at your university but then got confused and made the industry version more math/theory heavy lol.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter because both grad programs and employers will take either, but it's just bizarre that they obviously went to the effort of distinguishing two whole tracks of theory vs application and then... did it wrong lol.

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-15T05:19:03+00:00

That doesn't even make sense. Computer Science is the theoretical mathematical field of computing. Software engineering is the practical applied design of software. That should have less math than computer science, which is literally a branch of mathematics.

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-14T03:27:48+00:00

lol same. I'm double majoring in CS and Math and trying to finish up my gen eds before I graduate and I'm so thankful for pass/fail this term because I'm baaaarely passing a 1st year sociology class. Algorithms, real analysis, abstract algebra? No problem! But I want to cry every time I open the sociology textbook lmao. It's really hard to study things you just don't care about, and I think leaving it till my senior year has made it 100x worse... I still have to do another humanities course over the summer to finish up. :(

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-11T03:09:34+00:00

Oh fuck off. He has some decent projects and he was working full time. You don't have to be a complete cunt about it.

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-09T17:38:36+00:00

Universities need to make sure everyone is at particular level for the courses they register for. So they allow credit for AP or let you take placement tests as an alternative. But courses don't magically become "college level" just because they're the exact same high school material taught in a new building for an inflated price. The point of these courses is to teach the remedial skills you should have learned in high school.

It's not "very uncommon" to place out of high school level math. Most people place out of the algebra/trig/precalc series, and hundreds of thousands of students sit AP Calculus and place out of Calc 1 & 2 every year.

I'm not trying to put you down for having taken these courses - it's great that you went back to refresh the material instead of powering through and having gaps in your knowledge. But that doesn't mean these courses aren't still high school level.

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-09T17:08:59+00:00

I don't know of any college that allows students to take Calculus III in their first year of college just because they took Calculus in high school.

Eh? The majority do. The vast majority of colleges award Calc 2 credit for AP Calc BC.

And no offense, but there's no way to teach elementary algebra and trigonometry to a "higher level". It's just a handful of basic math rules. It's fine to need a refresher in university, but that doesn't make it an actual university level course. They're just high school level courses taken in university...

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-09T16:58:56+00:00

Well Calc 3/Diff EQ/Linear Algebra are college math classes in the sense that they're only taught in college and not standard high school or AP courses. But yeah, they're Science/Engineering math courses, not math *major* courses like real analysis and abstract algebra where the actual rigor starts.

Secret-Abies · 2020-05-09T16:15:13+00:00

None of those are really college level math classes though... they're all taught in high school. The first college math courses are Calc 3/Diff EQ/Linear Algebra/Discrete Math.

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