Starting in Calc 1?

GLOBALTRAVELER
Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:46:26 +0000

This likely depends on the school; at a school with an “engineering” type curriculum for CS (including a bunch of physics, electronics, etc. courses and long prerequisite chains), starting in precalculus instead of calculus may find it hard to graduate on schedule due to the crowded schedule and long prerequisite chains, since not starting calculus immediately delays a lot of other courses.



Yes. These would be the CS programs that only required Physics I, II and the math sequence of Calculus I, Calculus II, Linear Algebra and Discrete Structures. The Physics can still be taken as a sophomore (since Calculus I is a prereq for Physics I). The Object-Oriented Programming I, II would have to shift to Spring-Freshmen and Fall-Sophomore.

Doable. I saw it a lot when I was in school.