Members JesperX Posted February 4, 2008 Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 I hated Calculus (CS degree here). We were only required to take 2 Calc courses, luckily. I used my Math electives elsewhere. I'm not even sure why we had to take it; I sure as hell haven't used any calc in the 4 years I've been out of school. Discrete math is/was much more practical... Yea, I've been doing 3D simulation and games stuff for the last two years and I haven't run across needing diff EQ. I'm sure there are some specialized areas where you need it but I hardly think it's a core degree requirement. Discrete math and linear algebra, now that I see everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rkstarr Posted February 4, 2008 Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 i got an A in calc 1-3..but only cause i had the smartest guy in class tutor me..and i even outscored him..im really not sure how..those were the days ..nice womenz..and good grades Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joel3000 Posted February 4, 2008 Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 Keep working at it. Profs will often give you credit for improving over time. Calculus is easy if you do the work. Memorize all of the important forms. There are only like 20 of them. If you make some flash cards you'll get them down in an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chakosh Posted February 4, 2008 Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 I was fortunate enough to have tested out of Calc 1 and 2 from the AP credits in high school, but yeah that sh!t was hard... Diff Eq sucked a big fat one too. Matrix algebra was a pain but manageable. Classes that sucked a lot:Computers as Components (Digital Logic 1)Linear SystemsProbabilityDiff Eq Classes that were f#$king cool:Optical Electronics and Lasers as Communication devicesBrains, Minds, and ComputersAntenna TheoryFields Lab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoshuaLogan Posted February 4, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 Sweet raptor jesus, why on earth did you take that, specifically, for an elective credit?!? lol noooo I didn't mean as a throw-away elective credit. I'm taking it because it's a prerequisite for the junior and senior EE courses, but it's filling the remaining elective credits for my AA right now. You need a certain number of required credits and a certain number of elective credits.... it's up to you if you want throw-away electives or not, but it's best to try to use them to get as many prereqs out of the way as possible. The only non-elective credits I still need are life-science.... but I'm taking an intro to bio course to cover that right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoshuaLogan Posted February 4, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 P.S. I was serious about wanting that TI89 Calculus Made Easy app... I know one of you d00ds has it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JesperX Posted February 4, 2008 Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 Digital Logic (read that as "Assembly Language programming") and Linear Systems really hit me hard... That stuff made zero sense... Hahah, oh man. You would've loved the hardware class where we had to write a disassembler for the Motorola 68k in 68k assembly language. It's not really all that hard it's just a whole lot of tedious rearranging of data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chakosh Posted February 4, 2008 Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 Hahah, oh man. You would've loved the hardware class where we had to write a disassembler for the Motorola 68k in 68k assembly language.It's not really all that hard it's just a whole lot of tedious rearranging of data. F^#k. That. 8086 was enough. That one and my Capstone were enough to let me know I have the right major (not CS or EC, but EE). Capstone we had a guy that got mono half way thru the semester, so I had to take over his duties and mine. Having never programmed a DSP chip, I think I did a pretty good job of teaching myself how to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JesperX Posted February 4, 2008 Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 F^#k. That. 8086 was enough. That one and my Capstone were enough to let me know I have the right major (not CS or EC, but EE). Capstone we had a guy that got mono half way thru the semester, so I had to take over his duties and mine. Having never programmed a DSP chip, I think I did a pretty good job of teaching myself how to do it.At my old college they were having the CS students take digital circuit design and hardware. Not quite sure why they made us take circuit design but it was pretty fun. In the hardware class he, for some reason, thought we needed to do some 8086 machine code I mean it's 1-1 with assembly instructions, but why the hell make us use hexidecimal machine instructions instead of stuff we can actually read? I did get to piss the EE's off in the class by getting the highest grade on the midterm while being the only CS student in the class . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alchemist Posted February 4, 2008 Members Share Posted February 4, 2008 sometimes that happens, just use it as motivation to do better on the following exams....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inkblot Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 I had A's in Calc 1 (AP), 3 and 4. Got a B in 2 but I would have had an A with a teacher who could speak English. Diff EQ wasn't that bad at all IMO. Now physics, ugh. Actually got a D last semester, meaning I have to retake it. Gravity, friction, potential energy, inertia....just doesn't click with me. Didn't help that the tests were 91308% harder than the homework. Homework was pretty easy, then you sit down at the test and go WTF? Pass rate must be less than half in that class, and IMO it shouldn't be any harder than calc 1-4. Maybe I should just drop EE and major in math, my grades say I'm better at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Boris the Blade Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 I'm majoring in Electrical Engineering and I'm required to go all the way to Calc 3 along with Differential equations and Linear Algebra. I'm still in precal and I have to take Math intensive Precal next semester. hooray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mooktank Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 Calc 2 is the best one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rich Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 {censored} calc. That {censored} destoyed my feeble mind not less than 18 years ago.:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members schecter player Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 Haha. I took this class last year as a junior in highschool. I got a 4 on the AP exam so I got credit for the class. Man, it was my favorite class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alchemist Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 Haha. I took this class last year as a junior in highschool. I got a 4 on the AP exam so I got credit for the class. Man, it was my favorite class. you must be soo smart n such:love: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members antareus Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 LOL. That was my EXACT thought on reading that. Our diff-eq class was an utter bitch. Probably the roughest math class to make a good grade in at our school... Heck, it was almost as bad as E/M Fields... The EEs literally called E/M fields "pre-business class" because it precipitated so many people having to completely drop out of the engineering college and switch into something else (usually "business"). Nobody ever warned me about how bad Diff Eq. was. Screwed up royally midway through the semester, so I had to drop it and try it again. Ended up with a B+ or something when it was done, so I'm happy.Math classes can destroy your GPA if you get a bad teacher and you aren't good at self-teaching yourself. I didn't realize this until second semester of sophomore year. I changed my class scheduling strategy to revolve around math classes to compensate: research all of the teachers for a class, try for the best one at any time, and schedule the rest of the classes around that. Things got better from then on.Something else to consider is taking a difficult class during the summer, either at your school or at a local community college and getting transfer credit. Obviously you want to make sure it transfers over before you do this, but it lets you make up for lost time in some cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Introspectre Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 Luckily I don't need more than entry level calc for my major. That's if I stick to business, at least. If I switch over to journalism (as I've been considering), I'd only need like 6 math credits.I'm far from a math whiz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JesperX Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 I made the wonderful decision of getting my AA first and literally need NO bull{censored} classes when I started my major. I started at a college that was on a trimester system so we took 4-5 classes per trimester. My schedule was either: 2 CS Classes 2 EE Classes 1 Math Class or 2 CS Classes 1 EE Class 1 Physics Class 1 Math Class Then I transferred over to a University of Washington annexed campus (Bothell) and instead of having lots of classes we were bombarded with big group projects that all started and ended at the same time. I learned a {censored} ton and it made me a much better Software Engineer but god if they didn't push us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoshuaLogan Posted February 5, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 Haha. I took this class last year as a junior in highschool. I got a 4 on the AP exam so I got credit for the class. Man, it was my favorite class. Don't be too proud. It all depends on the school and the specific teacher you have.... that, and my high school didn't really have any AP classes. We had honors classes, but not AP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Phishmonkey Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 Don't be too proud. It all depends on the school and the specific teacher you have.... that, and my high school didn't really have any AP classes. We had honors classes, but not APSucks I'm taking the BC AP exam this year with a good teacher, so hopefully I can avoid this crap in college. I got lucky though, the asshat who taught me pre calc got fired. No way I could pass this course with him teaching... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bob the dentist Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 Don't be too proud. It all depends on the school and the specific teacher you haveNot really, actually. AP is run by collegeboard sooo it's pretty much the same for everyone His teacher had to be good enough to teach it well, but still.Sucks that your school didn't even have it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoshuaLogan Posted February 5, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 Not really, actually. AP is run by collegeboard sooo it's pretty much the same for everyone His teacher had to be good enough to teach it well, but still. Sucks that your school didn't even have it though. Ehh, it still has to to be taught. Just wait til you get to college man. The teacher makes ALL the difference. More than once I've taken the same exact class with two different people and the differences in what you learn and how difficult the course is are HUGE. That's why websites like ratemyprofessors.com exist. Getting stuck with an insanely tough teacher can completely ruin things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tetaJ Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 wait man. At least where i studied it was better to start bad and finish good than the other way. Don't give up, if the teacher sees your progress he/she will know that you had a bad day and will find a way to encourage you and help you out. Don't complain anymore and set yourself to do a great job on the upcoming exams and the rest of the class. Mojo sent your way and forget about what happened and focus on the upcoming events!!!! Take care and be well, you will do fine man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ericwylde Posted February 5, 2008 Members Share Posted February 5, 2008 the last time a i got Calc 2 i made less than 10% in the first exam actually all the class was brutally beatenno one was approved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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