How math intensive is computer science?

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<p>Can anyone tell me if this school’s CS program looks worth anything?</p>

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<p>It depends on what you are doing. I have a few years of experience with kernel programming, and I use almost no math at all (beyond basic algebra/geometry). Bitwise arithmetic isn’t really “math”, per se. If you are doing something more practical (like Project Euler), you need a good amount of mathematical skill.</p>

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<p>It seems to be a solid CS program by today’s standard but I would do the following to the program:</p>

<p>1) Take CS-355 Principles of Programming Languages. Programming languages is a core CS course and will be required for just about any graduate CS program.</p>

<p>2) For your science courses, choose Physics.</p>

<p>3) If you ever plan to get into graphics or similar…a Calculus III course (which covers vectors) would be good to take.</p>

<p>4) Find out which mathematics/computational topics are covered in that “Computational Methods” course. If that course is to be like a Numerical Analysis-type course, then there will be solutions of Differential Equations and you MAY need to take another math course in Differential Equations to be prepare for that “Computational Methods” course.</p>

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<p>Thanks for your advice. Why Physics?</p>

<p>Also, Computational methods and software is described as</p>

<p>Algorithms and software for fundamental problems
in scientific computing. Topics: properties of
floating point arithmetic, linear systems of
equations, matrix factorizations, stability of
algorithms, conditioning of problems, least-squares
problems, eigenvalue computations, numerical
integration and differentiation, nonlinerar
equations, iterative solution of linear systems.</p>

<p>I really have 2 choices for schools, the other being this program which looks much more intensive <a href=“http://www.cs.vt.edu/files/files/Checksheets/CSMajorChecksheet2012Final_1.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cs.vt.edu/files/files/Checksheets/CSMajorChecksheet2012Final_1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;