<p>Just a nitpick on ucbalumnus’s post: EE 20 is not a prerequisite for EE 126.</p>
<p>Are you EECS or L&S CS?</p>
<p>A note about CS 70 in general: CS 70 has gotten harder in the last few years; a lot of people I talk to who took CS 70 many years ago mention how CS 70 is fairly easy - this doesn’t seem to be the case any more. A note about taking CS 70 specifically in the fall. In the fall it is being taught by Sahai. Be warned. Sahai is a lot of work. I have him right now in CS 70. Look at the first lecture here: <a href=“http://wbe-itunes.berkeley.edu/media/common/courses/spring_2014/rss/computer_science_70_001_screen.rss”>http://wbe-itunes.berkeley.edu/media/common/courses/spring_2014/rss/computer_science_70_001_screen.rss</a>. Sahai explicitly mentions that he intends the class (including lectures/sections) to take 20 hours / week. He is not, by the way, exaggerating. In my case that is a very accurate figure. I know a lot of people who spend more time than that on the problem sets due to weaker math backgrounds. A reader for the class actually mentioned that Sahai’s version of CS 70 is more work than CS 170 (the upper division class on algorithms that CS 70 is a prereq for). On the flip side, Sahai is a very good lecturer.</p>