How difficult are CS 2110 and CS 2800 for students with little CS background?

Prism123
Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:54:18 +0000

I took both this semester, if you took intro to java you should probably be fine for both, as long as you take 2110 during the fall with someone who isn’t bailey(since he’s way harder).

Actually in 2110 since I already knew on a surface level most of the concepts I didn’t pay nearly enough attention to the specific details during lecture which hurt me on the tests even though I aced the assignments/projects, which weren’t all that difficult, I could have done all 5 of them without taking the class. Wound up getting a B due to my poor test grades :(

For 2800 during the course I found that the material seemed somewhat difficult and I didn’t think I had a ton of logical intuition, however neither of the exams were that bad(though the professor did say he made his homework harder than exams since for homework you had unlimited time and references) and I got an A- without doing anything out of the ordinary studying wise, and even though on the final I couldn’t finish the induction(I was really close though) and made some dumb mistakes on the probability problem. Also the class is curved to a B+, at least it was this semester since my exam scores weren’t that far above the median and my hw average was a little under it, and I remember looking up that it as the past few semesters.