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

naokifresh
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:22:28 +0000

I’m in Structures of Programming 1 (Scheme language + SICP textbook) at my university…estimating my grade for this fall semester will be a B like 84-85%…
(finish all my labs =100%, quizzes= 90-93%, programming hws = 90-95%, midterm 1= 88%, midterm 2 = guessing 65-70% -ouch)
Considering how the 2nd midterm went I’m also pretty nervous for the final , and also our big project is daunting on me…

Are the first few courses meant to be weed-out courses?

I am used to being a much better student than this…in my Calculus 2 class I have a solid A

Is it just this one midterm was a fluke? Because I do well and get A- usually on my homeworks.
Is it bad to be someone who can’t write code under pressure in exams? -_- or common?
I just feel worthless at my own major and intimidated by others who seem to do much better…

Any other computer science majors felt this way?