moldau

Yes, grades are a measure of how well you know the material.
And yes, still cheme

flopsy

Yeah, you're going to need to go to the EE 1 discussion.

EE M16 / CS M51A is much harder than EE 1, from my experience.

TB54

For 104B(L) - I love the experiments that never work.

1st time:
So we turn on the impeller to make sure perfect mixing occurs in the tank.
Midway through our experiment (15 mins in) the impeller dies, we're like ...... you've gotta be kidding me

So we keep running the experiment without the impeller and our concentration distribution was so messed up that we were so afraid to present it.


2nd time:
We turn on the pumps and start pumping in an NaOH/Phen solution and out of a sudden the peristaltic pump dies. We're like .... you've gotta be kidding me. We fix the tubing in the pump and that ends our experiment.

3rd time:
"Do you know what you're doing for the distillation column?"
"No, but if I play with these knobs I should!"
So we tinker around with the knobs, and out of a sudden the knob could not be turned anymore and it's locked/stuck. We're like .... you've gotta be kidding me.

- TB54

Deuces

Which were the tough CS 31 projects? I know BoelterHall/Flopsy posted something about them but I can't find them right now.

BoelterHall

Are you currently taking 31?

The projects are different each quarter, but they cover the same topics. There aren't any impossible project (for experienced and non experience programmers alike), but for my quarter, the DDR project was extremely time consuming and frustrating.

I think I got 75% on it and spent 15-20 hours writing the code.

Even people who programmed in C++ for many years spent a few hours on it.

The other project that was time consuming was the robots game.
It isn't a lot of code to insert since the skeleton was provided, but you have to understand the topics inside out to know WHAT to write and where to put. it


Everything else is just frustrating for someone with no prior experience. Get used to sitting in front of the computer stepping through the code.

Fisico

Does ChemE have any 4.0 students?

MadeInChina

I think the toughest transition in CS31 is from Project 2 to Project 3. As for projects itself, it changes every quarter.

Deuces

Alright. well I'm currently taking it. Project 2--> 3 was pretty rough, but we had two weeks and I was able to figure out what functions did what and why so I ended up doing fine. We're doing a matrixes for the next two projects- determinants and solving systems of equations. I'm still a bit confused about arrays and how to make so that I can set the rows and columns of everything, but hopefully Rohr will cover that in lecture this next week.

project 4 = matrix determinants
project 5 = using matrix determinants to solve systems of equations --> cramer's rule essentially

Need to figure out how to replace 'columns' within the arrays to do cramer's though.

flopsy

The last project (usually a robots game) is the hardest.

hsiehinator

anyone know how hard is CS 151B and 152A or its EE equiv EE116 C and 116L?

flopsy

CS 151B is the same difficulty as CS M51A. CS 152A is the same difficulty as Physics 4BL, but since it's a lab course, the difficulty also depends on your lab partner.

grark

CS 31 in winter07:
project 5 was hardest. project 6 and 7 were like homework assignments and 73% of the class got 100s on them

ucla011

Flopsy,
My son is a CSE freshman. I asked him is he going to take summer school in UCI or community college for some general elective. It will be much cheaper without housing cost since we live in Irvine. He says he needs to balance his GPA with easy and hard courses over the regular school year to maintain his GPA. Is he “pulling my leg” with excuses or is this legitimate strategy? Can freshman find any intern training even without pay? My husband is a CS engineer, perhaps I will ask him. Or else he is going to get a PT time job. Advice anyone?

flopsy

This is a legitimate strategy. Summer sessions courses at other UCs (not sure about community colleges) can count towards the general education requirement, and are good for raising one's GPA since summer sessions tend to have easier grading. Also, it is very difficult for a freshman to obtain an internship (paid or unpaid), since most internships are targeted towards juniors, who have more programming experience.

tonysophia

Has anyone taken CM 145 with Professor Liao? How is that class? I heard he makes his students cry.

I'm also wondering if anyone has taken the nanotechnology technical breadth course and how they like it.

Thanks!