Hmm, not sure if I should add a fifth class to my schedule or not.

[notfred]

This is my current class schedule for the fall semester:

CSC 136. Programming Languages. Evolution and characteristics of programming languages. Scripting, procedural, object-oriented, functional and logic paradigms. Language specification; interpreters and compilers; virtual machines; parsing techniques. Design and implementation of selected features of programming languages. Programming languages used in the development of intelligent systems, with introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Trends in programming languages

CSC 137. Computer Organization. Introduction to computer organization and architecture. Topics include combinational devices, sequential and synchronized circuits, memory, bus structures, input/output and interrupt structures, CPU organization, control unit design and organization, and an introduction to modern processor and memory features. Projects include construction of a complete simple system using a schematic simulator and HDL.

CSC 180. Intelligent Systems. Theory and implementation of a variety of techniques used to simulate intelligent behavior. Expert systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computation, and two-player game-tree search will be covered in depth. Knowledge representation, pattern recognition, hybrid approaches, and handling uncertainty will also be discussed.

CSC 190. Senior Project: Part I. First of a two-course sequence in which student teams undertake a project to develop and deliver a software product. Approved project sponsors must be from industry, government, a non-profit organization, or other area. Teams apply software engineering principles in the preparation of a software proposal, a project management plan and a software requirements specification. All technical work is published using guidelines modeled after IEEE documentation standards. Oral and written reports are required. Lecture one hour, laboratory three hours.

I'm not sure if I should add a fifth class. It seems like it might be too much work, considering I work full time as well. Maybe I should just stick with four classes?

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: notfred
This is my current class schedule for the fall semester:

CSC 136. Programming Languages. Evolution and characteristics of programming languages. Scripting, procedural, object-oriented, functional and logic paradigms. Language specification; interpreters and compilers; virtual machines; parsing techniques. Design and implementation of selected features of programming languages. Programming languages used in the development of intelligent systems, with introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Trends in programming languages

CSC 137. Computer Organization. Introduction to computer organization and architecture. Topics include combinational devices, sequential and synchronized circuits, memory, bus structures, input/output and interrupt structures, CPU organization, control unit design and organization, and an introduction to modern processor and memory features. Projects include construction of a complete simple system using a schematic simulator and HDL.

CSC 180. Intelligent Systems. Theory and implementation of a variety of techniques used to simulate intelligent behavior. Expert systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computation, and two-player game-tree search will be covered in depth. Knowledge representation, pattern recognition, hybrid approaches, and handling uncertainty will also be discussed.

CSC 190. Senior Project: Part I. First of a two-course sequence in which student teams undertake a project to develop and deliver a software product. Approved project sponsors must be from industry, government, a non-profit organization, or other area. Teams apply software engineering principles in the preparation of a software proposal, a project management plan and a software requirements specification. All technical work is published using guidelines modeled after IEEE documentation standards. Oral and written reports are required. Lecture one hour, laboratory three hours.

I'm not sure if I should add a fifth class. It seems like it might be too much work, considering I work full time as well. Maybe I should just stick with four classes?

If you weren't planning on working full time I'd say go for it, but as is, just take the 4 IMO.

 

[Leper Messiah]

How many credit/contact hours are you looking at with four?

IMHO, even four is too many if they are 3-4 credit hours a piece with a full time job...

 

[yllus]

I worked part time while doing 4 classes a term and it damn near killed me - I have no idea how you'd pull that off as is.

Then again, with your previous experience the first two classes you listed sound like a breeze, the third fairly elementary and the fourth will just be a lot of work.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: L3p3rM355i4h
How many credit/contact hours are you looking at with four?

IMHO, even four is too many if they are 3-4 credit hours a piece with a full time job...

they average out to 3 credits each (12 total).

 

[everman]

It depends on how much hair you're willing to loose.
Working full time, I wouldn't add a 5th.

 

[Tiamat]

if you are workign full time 4 classes will be more than enough to keep you very busy and without sleep.

 

[habib89]

how many more do you have till graduation? i see you're taking senior projects, so i'm assuming you have another semester..

working full time with 4 classes is plenty though.. senior projects is going to eat up a lot of time

 

[eigen]

Originally posted by: yllus
I worked part time while doing 4 classes a term and it damn near killed me - I have no idea how you'd pull that off as is.

Then again, with your previous experience the first two classes you listed sound like a breeze, the third fairly elementary and the fourth will just be a lot of work.

How does 3 sound elementary?

 

[mercanucaribe]

I'm impressed that you can take 4 classes working full time!

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: eigen

Originally posted by: yllus
I worked part time while doing 4 classes a term and it damn near killed me - I have no idea how you'd pull that off as is.

Then again, with your previous experience the first two classes you listed sound like a breeze, the third fairly elementary and the fourth will just be a lot of work.

How does 3 sound elementary?

I dunno, sounded like an intro to AI course to me. Once you get the paradigm shift over with and start approaching the problems in the right way, the work is rather simple.

 

[Leper Messiah]

12 credit hours is considered a full load at my school, so props to you for even doing that much. 5 classes would be hell.

Full time=40 hrs work week
Classes= at least 15 hrs of class time, plus maybe 30 hrs homework/study time.

You're talking about 85hrs/week for work and school, or 12hrs a day 7 days a week.

 

[tami]

you should stick with your current schedule. intelligent systems is annoying -- bayes nets is awful. computer organization can also be icky -- you most likely don't want to program in assembly language. those classes are doable together, but the work is complex and difficult to many.

 

[James3shin]

12creds and working full time is going to be tough man, good luck!

 

[Aharami]

wow. good luck

 

[Jawo]

Dang..........and I though my 5 classes was a decent load.........

 

[notfred]

I think I'm just going to stick with the 4 classes. 5 classes this semester won't let me graduate any sooner anyway, so I might as well not overdo it.

 

[eLiu]

Does your school have a "drop date" type of thing where classes dropped before that date do not appear on your transcript?

If so, I'd take the 5th class but make it my last priority. If you find that you don't have time for it, drop it.

If you don't have that luxury, it'd depend on how hard you think those 4 classes will be. I'm not a CS/EE major, so I can't judge that. But 4+fulltime job already sounds like a good amt of work to me.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

If you have any questions, then DON'T do it. You are way better off without overextending yourself.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: Hayabusa Rider
If you have any questions, then DON'T do it. You are way better off without overextending yourself.

that's not necessarily true...i was afraid of overextending last semester, esp as a freshman but I went ahead anyway. stressful at times but I came out on top.

you cant get better unless you push your limits

 

[Landroval]

Originally posted by: notfred
This is my current class schedule for the fall semester:

CSC 136. Programming Languages. Evolution and characteristics of programming languages. Scripting, procedural, object-oriented, functional and logic paradigms. Language specification; interpreters and compilers; virtual machines; parsing techniques. Design and implementation of selected features of programming languages. Programming languages used in the development of intelligent systems, with introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Trends in programming languages

CSC 137. Computer Organization. Introduction to computer organization and architecture. Topics include combinational devices, sequential and synchronized circuits, memory, bus structures, input/output and interrupt structures, CPU organization, control unit design and organization, and an introduction to modern processor and memory features. Projects include construction of a complete simple system using a schematic simulator and HDL.

CSC 180. Intelligent Systems. Theory and implementation of a variety of techniques used to simulate intelligent behavior. Expert systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary computation, and two-player game-tree search will be covered in depth. Knowledge representation, pattern recognition, hybrid approaches, and handling uncertainty will also be discussed.

CSC 190. Senior Project: Part I. First of a two-course sequence in which student teams undertake a project to develop and deliver a software product. Approved project sponsors must be from industry, government, a non-profit organization, or other area. Teams apply software engineering principles in the preparation of a software proposal, a project management plan and a software requirements specification. All technical work is published using guidelines modeled after IEEE documentation standards. Oral and written reports are required. Lecture one hour, laboratory three hours.

I'm not sure if I should add a fifth class. It seems like it might be too much work, considering I work full time as well. Maybe I should just stick with four classes?

Senior Projects are supposed to be capstone courses where you really put a lot of time into it and show what you've learned. Not to say some people don't slack off, but you might want to think about doing something ambitious that would impress future employers.

 

[cubby1223]

I usually always took too many classes, see what the workload is, figure out which ones I can handle, then drop whichever class wasn't going to work out.