how hard is cs70 compared to cs61 series?

Student
Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:23:55 +0000

In terms of workload, CS 61C is easily the worst with Garcia. Those taking it next fall are lucky, as someone else will be teaching it.

I’d go with Math 55 instead of CS 70. It covers a broader range of material (though in less detail), and the grading curves are usually more generous, since math professors don’t have to abide by the B- class average as dictated by the EECS departmental grading policy. In 55, you will learn logic (useful for CS 61C, 150, etc.), sets (EE 20), orders of growth/asymptotic analysis (61AB, 170, etc.), induction and recursion (CS 61A and onwards), discrete probability (good stuff to know), and some basic statistical concepts (mean, variance, std dev, etc.)