All you CS people...(NOT COUNTERSTRIKE)

[urbantechie]

What kind of math did you take in HS? In college? Your overall GPA in HS and College? It suddenly hit me (thanks Khaos ) that I don't want to be hauling computers around all day. I would rather be building computer software/components. Thanks! Oh yea, people who haven't graduated can help me too!

 

[ltk007]

Another computer science thread :disgust: :|

 

[KameLeon]

Well, the farthest I got in High School was Pre-Calculus. It would be a good idea to take Calculus your last year in High School, if you can. I currently attend a CSU, and I have to take the following math courses for my CS major:

Calculus I -- (passed already, failed once)
Calculus II -- (failed once, currently taking again)
Probability and Statistics
Discrete Structures
Linear Algebra

You'll also have to take some physics courses as well!

My gpa in high school was 3.76, and currently 3.0 in college. I'm in 2nd year..
Programming, the main focus of CS, is really tough though; for me, atleast. As many people have said it before, You either get it or you don't. It also tends to get boring at times.. But it depends on the person. If you're really interested in computers as I am, it is interesting as well!

 

[dafatha00]

God, i hate cs..i'm taking intro to C++ and it is freaking hard...=o/

 

[Valhalla1]

:disgust: :|

 

[perry]

Got up to Pre Cal in high school. The MATH classes I took in college were Calc I - IV, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations. Two full years of math (quarter system). School didn't offer any class lower than Calc I.

 

[Deeko]

I'm gonna be a CS major. I'm in trig/precalc right now in HS(as a junior). Next year I'm taking calc and AP calc. Also taking AP physics. my school is messed up, we don't have GPA's, we have averages, my average is 95.

 

[Scrapster]

I'm not a CS major, but I have the math requirements to do it. My high school math sucked a big one. Barely passed algebra and failed geometry. But in college, I passed the calculus series with a 3.3 average and 3.0 in differential equations.

 

[Z24]

Calculus is less important for CS than Algebra, and discrete math.

In Ontario (Canada), we had a senior highschool math course called "Finite"

Permutations, Combinations, Probability, and a bunch of other stuff I forget. That class seems to be the most relevant to the math done for CS.

 

[bUnMaNGo]

high school GPA was 3.5, took AP Calc AB Senior year... now in college:

3 quarters single variable calculus
1 quarter multivariable calculus
1 quarter discrete mathematics
1 quarter boolean algebra
1 quarter linear algebra
1 quarter differential equations
yet to take 1 quarter of probability

UC cumulative GPA: 2.4ish (damn them social science/humanities G.E.s)
UC major GPA(Computer Science): 3.0

btw I transferred from UCR to UCSC with a cumulative GPA of 2.236 =P

 

[yakko]

I thought this was going to be a CompuServe thread.

 

[prodigy]

Oh this isn't about Customer Service?

 

[hans007]

i had like a 3.7 gpa in high school, weighted it was like 4.15 or something. I had 99 percentile type test scores. Now i'm in college, i think i've lost all sense of motivation, have a 2.9 GPA overall, and well i'm happy. I took calc AB junior year and well they didnt teach BC at my school so i just took stats ap (what a joke). Took 2 years of CS ap, one in pascal another in C++ , pretty much independant study. I realized the other day that i like program, am pretty good at programming, hate school, and am not a very good engineer.

 

[Mule]

Computer Science Major here 2nd year:

In HS I completed upto calculus (no AP) with a 3.85? unweighted GPA

Now in college I have completed 3 courses in calculus so far and did alright in them, but for a CS major it really isn't that important, but you sure do have to learn it to take physics and do some crazy ass programming with integrals.

Anyways programming has two concepts: creativity and logic, the latter is learned by discrete stuctures and common knowledge, the other if you don't have you will have a hard time designing large efficient program stuctures.

I would highly recommend taking some programming class in HS(C++ or JAVA) and find out if that's for you(not for everybody). Many people love computers, building them and overclocking, but software engineering is a difficult subject and only a few really understand it.

 

[flood]

<It suddely hit me...that I don't want to be hauling computers around all day. I would rather be building computer software/components>

urbantechie-
I'm the same. What you want is computer engineering.

 

[Mule]

<< What you want is computer engineering >>


Just remember that computer engineering is a whole lot more complicated then you probably think, and it might something you're NOT looking for, all those binaries and registers can make your head spin in cirlces.

 

[Missus]

Geez...
:disgust:

 

[bUnMaNGo]

flood: eww, computer engineering =P I hate hardware

 

[randomlinh]

doin CE here myself. In HS, i had a 3.73 GPA coming into senior year... remember, don't day a butt load of AP classes and slack off

gotta take calc, compsci, physics, ee courses.. lotsa stuff... heh. And discrete structures i've been told is extremely difficult (that course caused someone to start a rating system for our courses here at UMD... it's rating the harest one.. heh).

Needless to say, if i don't do something this summer at the community college (can't do summer term here, too expensive/times won't be good).. i'll have discrete structures, calc 3, cmsc (2nd year course).. + physics.. ugh..

 

[Engine]

I took AP calculus in high school, and took the minimum math required for a CS (well, SAN when I was there) major in college (Calc 1 &amp; 2, Discrete Math, and two Stats courses). It was all right, but I didn't like it nearly as much as the programming courses. Z24 is right about math in CS majors. The Discrete math was more important/useful than the calculus... to me, at least. My GPA was right about a 4.0 in high school (gotta love those weighted AP courses ), and about a 3.77 in college.

 

[Electric Amish]

I took Calculus in HS. Graduated HS with a 3.87 GPA (What's this weighted crap??)

I didn't do too well with my AS degree. All those crappy GED courses. I re-took CalcII &amp; CalcIII in college. I also took Multivariable Calc.

I ended up with a 3.16 gpa from my Associate degree in CS.

I transferred to another university to get my BS.

Now that I've taked half of my BS degree classes in CS I have a 4.00 GPA since the transfer.

My degree will be in Software Engineering.

amish