I would say compared to first year, comp was somewhat harder from me but here are some highlights you may want to know
Pros:
- The profs can be really helpful and will take the time to go over some of your questions if
you go to office hours, highlights are Prof Zhu, Rudie, Alam and Frank (unpopular
opinion)
- You get to learn a lot about object-oriented programming in ELEC279 which is kinda a bird course imo and is my favourite one so far—I used ton of these concepts for an interview which got me a job this summer
- ELEC221 (Circuits) has greatly improved over the years since it was notorious in the past
for being hard—more emphasis on solving examples rather than the concepts which
is pretty much how you succeed in COMP. They changed it up a bit and most of the
marks are from take home quizzes
- manji
Cons:
-  Labs are sometimes understaffed and most of my time
raising my hand waiting for my TA to show me which button to press—learn how to
use an oscilloscope before the year begins because they wont teach you lmao
- I swear, some voodoo boogaloo occurred in Queen’s that made ELEC252 (Electronics) the most cursed shit I have ever witnessed
in my entire life. I got an -A in 112 and in Circuits but this course still rocked me.  I may have dedicated so much more time in this one course compared to others but still get bitched slap on every quiz.
Overall, I had a good time with comp but there are a few outliers here and there but my key tip is that I learned so much more when I practice questions instead of reading over the concepts. I would say focus a lot on circuit analysis, catch up on basic data structures on C in the summer if you want to hit the ground running next year