Course 6 major in 3 years?

iceui2
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:22:01 +0000

@Tapper7: I’m not trying to be condescending. I’m just trying to say that 6.01 is not as hard as some people make it seem. You don’t need to take an intro to an intro to EECS class. If OP is from a state school, this might be okay. But since we’re at MIT… I’m hoping that I won’t get flamed for encouraging people to take the challenge and go straight into 6.01. I won’t deny that you’ll have a easier time with 6.01 after taking 6.00, but there’s a reason that the EECS department did not require 6.00 as a prerequisite for 6.01. You don’t need it to get an A.

Learning programming for a MIT student should be easy. It’s very mathematical and logical. So I don’t see a problem with going straight to 6.01. Plus it’s during the fall and a lot of freshmen take it on pass/no record.

Why go to MIT if you’re not going to challenge yourself? OP is already a year behind and if he/she thinks 6.01 is too hard then he/she will no doubt have bigger problems later in the major. But IMO if you put the time into all the labs… you’ll be fine in 6.01. Knowing a lot of programming going in does not give you much of an advantage in terms of your final grade. It’s pretty correlated to time spent doing the labs and actually learning the material. You will find that very little of the class is devoted to just programming (unlike 6.00).