<p>I’ve taken both Personal Computers and Intro to Networking. Personal Computers is probably the easiest course at UCSC. I went to class about 4 times in total and I ended up with around 110%. The projects are ridiculously easy and just require you to do basic things like create a word document, powerpoint, html site, and excel. If you know how to memorize answers, you literally can’t fail the exams.</p>
<p>I probably enjoyed the material from Intro to Networking way more because I actually learned something in the class. The material usually changes because they keep switching the lecturer for the class (I had Juan Gomez), but it usually goes over material such as TCP/UDP protocol, router/network configurations, IP subnet masking, binary/hex/decimal calculations, and some html. The average grades in the class weren’t that great (especially for exams/quizzes), but your relative grade can be pretty high. I think I had around a 85-90 in raw points, but it was curved to ~105%.</p>
<p>So it’s really up to you. I know both of these classes list their syllabus, assignments, and exams from previous years online. So you can go to the SOE website and take a look and see what you would rather take.</p>