Are the first programming courses in the Computer Science major supposed to be hard?

sumzup
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:57:02 +0000

I don’t think you should be worried at all. Sure, it’s hard at first. But if you really have an interest and persist with it, things will start to make more and sense. Also, don’t take this experience as an accurate depictor of what the rest of your CS classes are going to be like. CS is an extremely varied field, and you may find that you’re more suited for object oriented or procedural programming (like Java and C, respectively). Scheme is a great language, but it’s also very different from the other languages you’ll learn.