/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9563001
>Is a BS in CS trivial?
No. But it's certainly easier than other STEM.

define trivial

>>9563884
a calm and reasoned response

>>9563001
CS concepts are very easy. At my uni however, we have multiple programming assignments for every single class. I have been able to get As on nearly every program, but each one has required 50-100 hours of work so they are definitely not trivial. You're expected to be able to pick up a new language and apply it. For example, our assembly class is the most failed course because the programs range from programs like solitaire and fallout hacking to computer graphics and numerical analysis.

>>9563884
I would say it's medium difficulty compared to other stem. Math being hard and civil eng. being easy

>>9563001
go see the last classes on physics. Some of them you can understand with basic physics knowledge. It doesn't mean the studies are easy.

>>9563001
>indian

immediately closed. I have fucking hatred for goddamn shitskinpoos fucking retarded race.

>>9563001
The highest level classes paradoxically end up easier for a lot of university subjects because professors are more skeptical that you know what you're doing at the lower levels and invest more of their subject matter towards tricky topics to see who really gets it.
I noticed a similar phenomenon with stereotypically easy courses like art history tending to be brutal and stereotypically hard classes like higher maths tending to be gentler. My idea for why that should be the case is that professors are more self-conscious about these stereotypes than you might guess and they'll react opposite to whatever the stereotype is to try to prove they're different.

what i don't get is how some of you guys can talk about ''easy'' and ''hard'' about any college programs when you probably haven't finished a single bachelors. it's pretty cringy desu seeing people kruger out in here.

“hard” is relative. if you like the material it will be easy

>>9564538
Are you the autist who inappropriately brings up dunning-kruger constantly because you don't understand what it means?
Rhetorical question by the way, I know you are.

>>9563001
Yes.

>>9564554
>introductory books are trivial
Who would have thought?
>>9563001
CS bachelor is fairly trivial. Even more trivial if you have a tiny bit of 'mathematical maturity', as that makes all the "hard" courses as trivial as the rest.

Research in CS is a bit of everything. There are rather formal subfields that are essentially a peculiar field of math and there are subfields that are little more than glorified programming.

I would say no.

>>9563884
What may be easy for some might be difficult for others. Its all relative. I'm pretty good at math and chemistry. I think a bachelors in chemistry, civil engineering, or math would be easier then a BS in computer science. Physics, EE, and probably ChemE are definitely harder than CS. Some others with different skill sets might disagree.

Plus what kind of difficulty? In terms of difficulty of concepts or difficulty of workload? Because that does matter. Like math is probably more difficult conceptually but far easier in terms of workload. The workload is what I would say makes CS more difficult.

>>9564504
good luck earning that GED, champ

>>9565524
The workload was easy for me, compared to when I did physics. Additionally the concepts in CS are quite easy. There's also a lot of variance in CS degrees, they can range from watered-down mathematics to glorified software engineering. It's also worth considering the mobility, and certainly with certain engineering, mathematics, and mathematical science degrees it is easier to move to CS than the reverse. With the less mathematical STEM subjects, I can believe it's difficult to compare to CS and it's subjective as to what's easier.

>>9563001
This is literally the first class of a first semester lecture, take a video of a Maths lecture in the first weeks and ask yourself whether it represents the whole major.

That aside, CS BS programs in most universities are useless.