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Higher level education doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I don't see how it makes any sense that someone who is pursuing a CS degree has to spend over twice as much time NOT DOING CS in order to get the degree. 

 

My time during the week is divided somewhat like this: 5/10 Calculus, 3/10 Physics, 2/10 C++

 

I understand that it's important to be well rounded and to have these skills......but I'm not learning how to code. I'm learning how to perform bullshit Calc operations and how to solve physics problems. I'll admit that the physics is actually useful, but the Calc is significantly less so.....

 

My coding classes are an afterthought to my math and science courses. That's not right. 

  1. lewdicrous

    lewdicrous

    Welcome to the college life, where a biologist needs to learn calculus in order to dissect a rat..

  2. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    I could understand having most of everyone going up to Calc 1.....but I have to go to Calc 3........and Physics 3........like what the actual fuck? 

  3. lewdicrous

    lewdicrous

    Yea.. it's baffling what side quests we need to complete just to get a degree.

  4. lewdicrous

    lewdicrous

    It's either an international thing or the person who made your degree plan is super old.

  5. BuckGup

    BuckGup

    Oh yeah I totally agree. I could of graduated with a BS in CS in 2 years and that includes stuff like Calc II, Chem, and Phsyics but it's the mind numbing university requirements that kill me. I love PAYING for things like LGBTQ Gender studies and Nazis and Germany. If it was free but you HAD to take it to graduate sure that's fine. But nah my time is more valuable then sitting in class and learning garbage filler even the professors don't care about

  6. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    @James Evens I'm well aware that math is important in a CS setting. Especially if you're working with data (which a lot of the time you are)......but I don't understand why so much more emphasis is placed on math in College than coding when IRL more emphasis is placed on coding than math. 

     

    IRL when faced with a scenario that requires calc, you can reference your materials and the internet to figure out how to implement something. In a math course you don't get notes, you don't get to reference your previous work, and you're expected to memorize everything.....that's bullshit.  

  7. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    Calc is much more useful than physics. Knowing how to find the max outputs for any function is far more useful than knowing what formula to apply. 

  8. captain_to_fire

    captain_to_fire

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    but the Calc is significantly less so.....

    The chemical engineers and chemists/biochemists??‍? who worked in industries like manufacturing would beg to differ. 

  9. DrMacintosh

    DrMacintosh

    A CS major is neither of those. 

  10. captain_to_fire

    captain_to_fire

    I think algebra is more useful to a CS major if you ask me

  11. The_Prycer

    The_Prycer

    Higher education in the US is a for profit system. How else are they going to squeeze extra $ out of you without making you take superfluous classes that aren't relevant to your degree field unless they make them requirements?

     

    I went through the same thing when I was younger, dumber, and getting a Marketing (with a minor in Journalism) degree. Absolute hogwash that I needed to know anything about Calculus to write articles about why people want to buy Product A over Product B.

     

    Now I just teach myself all the things I want to know through the magic of the Internet and Library books.

  12. RoseLuck462

    RoseLuck462

    Are you still early into your CS degree?

  13. DrMacintosh
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