Preparing for SCS freshman

XuSCS09
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:31:37 +0000

A lot of students get hit hard because of a lack of experience in discrete math.

I would skip 15-111 if you got a 5 on AP Comp Sci AB. The course is somewhat redundant. And I think the rule with skipping is that you can talk with the associate dean, and if you convince him, you can basically do anything.

Case in point: Freshman ECE major who had written his own compiler and had done some pretty crazy stuff took 15-410 Operating Systems, in his first semester. NOTE: very not normal case.