how hard is cs70 compared to cs61 series?

calstudent86
Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:35:09 +0000

The CS 70 workload is very manageable: it is one problem set a week. There’s no programming. However, the subject matter is extremely difficult to understand (far more so than 61ABC, in my opinion), and the students who take it are very bright. As a result, you’ll spend most of your time trying to comprehend what the heck is going on :). Everyone will.

I took CS 70 with CS 186 and CS 150, and one reason I didn’t do well in CS 70 is that I didn’t devote enough time to simply processing the information being taught.

On the other hand, the material taught in 61C is relatively easy to understand (in my opinion), but there are about 5 projects that each take about 10 to 20 hours (for me) to complete. When I took 61C with Wawrzynek, I found the workload to be very manageable; I’ve heard that it’s worse with Garcia.