<p>Depends on what your goals are, really. Are you looking for a career in research or software development?</p>
<p>Here are some of the “hot” areas in CS, off the top of my head: mobile computing, social networks, parallel computing, distributed computing, machine learning, data mining, web applications, “green” computing, HCI, and medical applications. So there’s a lot to choose from. If you’re set on exploring something from this list, just do some research on your own to see if it’s something you’d be interested in.</p>
<p>Also, just because I didn’t list something doesn’t mean that it’s irrelevant; there are plenty of opportunities and careers in every branch of CS.</p>
<p>Dear Flopsy:
Advice request please…my son is so nervous to accept at UCLA. He was accepted in College Letter and Science for Applied Math but has since changed his mind to major in Civil Engineering but UCLA has the two quarter rule and the 3.5 GPA requirement. He has been accepted to other colleges and can switch immediately to CE. So does he risk not being able to change to CE at UCLA or accept at another college? He is ranked 5th in class but 3’s and 4’s in AP classes so not sure he can cope with the more competitive UCLA environment. Any advice?</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure which field I want to go into, but I’m looking at ChemE and Biomedical Engineering. I was accepted to UCLA for Engineering - Undeclared.</p>
<p>Right now I’m choosing between Engineering at UCLA and BME at Johns Hopkins. How does UCLA’s Engineering program compare to other top university’s, especially JHU’s?</p>
<p>Can someone rate the difficulty of this schedule?</p>
<p>CS 33
CS 35L
EE 102
EE 2</p>
<p>I really want to drop 35L and take it later, but they don’t offer it in the summer and it is a prereq to a lot of cs courses. Dropping any other class will put me to 11 units so I really don’t know what to do… Currently an EE trying to change to CSE at the end of the quarter so any advice would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>I would like to know what kind of situation im in.</p>
<p>Little backstory: Im a graduating senior for EE for this spring and I’ll only be taking two classes this last quarter, CS32 and some other math class. I was a transfer student and I came in serveral years ago, having taken the CS31 equivalent at a CC. But that was several years ago and haven’t really touched C++ since then. </p>
<p>I’m a little worried about how the class is going to go for me. I have been refreshing myself with the C++ material for the last couple of days. Do you think I’ll be able to at least pass the class considering that I’m only taking ithis class and one other class this whole quarter? I am fully committed to putting in as much time as I need into Cs32. Thanks…</p>
If your son really likes UCLA and its Civil Engineering program, he should attend. It’s not terribly difficult to get a 3.5 as long as he puts in the time and uses the resources available to him.</p>
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Speaking very generally, they’re probably comparable. I’ll leave this to ChemE and BME folks to elaborate.</p>
<p>
102 is the toughest one of the bunch. It’s not a ridiculous schedule as long as you budget your time well, though.</p>
<p>
The CS 32 staff always encourage students to take it as soon after CS 31 as possible because the class assumes you know the CS 31 material extremely well. It’ll definitely be a challenge, but you don’t have much of a choice. However, I really do believe that you actively need to try to not pass a class for it to happen at UCLA (there are some known exceptions, but CS 32 is not one of them). The big thing is to keep programming and writing small pieces of code to see if you really get the concepts.</p>
<p>So grapesoda, you think this is do-able? I’m fairly good at budgeting my time. However winter quarter, I took ee3, ee1, ee 10, and cs 32 and thought it was pretty hard. I budgeted time pretty well ,but there were days where I just didn’t get stuff done</p>
<p>CS 33 with Glenn is fun and not massively time consuming, EE 2 (from what I’ve heard) isn’t much more work than EE 1, EE 102 depends on how strong you are at math, and CS 35L depends on how much experience you have with *nix systems.</p>
<p>I really don’t think it’s a terrible schedule. It might be busier than average, but not unreasonably so. If Rohr was teaching CS 33, then it would have been hours and hours of pointless busywork, but he’s not, so I don’t see any real issues.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t have any experience in Linux/Unix… but you still think it’s do-able. I also work around 15 hours a week. Would I still be okay with good time-management lol?</p>
<p>Regarding the fee reduction, I’m a graduating ME for this spring and got a fee reduction for having <10 units in the winter. Now I think for this spring I will also be having <10 units. The school site policy doesn’t make it clear if I could only have one fee reduction for my last three quarters or otherwise. My question is can I still get a fee reduction for this spring? Thanks.</p>
<p>I am a freshman student entering UCLA this fall. I was accepted to UCLA for material engineering. Now I want to change to CS. It seems that both majors are in college of engineering. Can I change my major before the new student orientation? Do you think I should change my major? I am a girl and interested in both areas but with little knowledge about computer language(such as C++, Java). And I have learned chemistry in HS for three years.</p>
<p>The “when” question is one you should ask at orientation to the people at 6426 Boelter Hall (or you can email them [Welcome</a> to the Office of Academic and Student Affairs — UCLA Engineering Office of Academic and Student Affairs](<a href=“http://seasoasa.ucla.edu/]Welcome”>http://seasoasa.ucla.edu/)). In any case, there’s no rush to switch because you can sign up for most of the classes you need early on regardless of major.</p>
<p>Only you know if you should switch to CS. I recommend taking CS 31 as early as possible to see if it’s something you’d be interested in. CS only requires 1 Chemistry class for graduation (and you might not even need to take it if you took AP Chemistry).</p>
<p>If you want to know sooner, get a C++ book or follow an online tutorial, and try for yourself. I believe Stanford’s intro CS class is available online (though I could be wrong). <a href=“http://www.udacity.com%5B/url%5D”>www.udacity.com</a> is new and seems like an awesome resource.</p>
<p>what do you guys think of CS 111 and 143 at the same time? Suicide? Hard but doable? Easy mode?</p>
<p>111 will be w/ Eggert and 143 will be with Cho. Both seem to be pretty heavy on projects. I’ve already started on the first project for 143, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to persistently start early throughout the quarter. </p>
<p>Overall, I’d be taking cs 111, 143 + an easy GE OR
111, 143, easy ge + tech breadth</p>
<p>anyway, has anyone tried taking Cho and Eggert at the same time?</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem as hard as double eggert, but it doesn’t seem trivial either.</p>
<p>Honestly, it’s not a huge transition from lower division classes to upper division classes. As long as the other classes you’re taking are easy, it’s really not a big deal.</p>
<p>joebruin: CS 111 and 143 at the same time is fine. CS 143 is not hard, though project 2 is time consuming. I’d probably recommend only taking one other class on top of that though, since CS 111 is a huge workload. I’d have to disagree with grapesoda that CS 111 is fine as long as you pace yourself. CS 111 is a huge workload. Not saying it’s not manageable (I got an A in that class), but it is a lot of work. You should go into that class expecting to work your tail off.</p>
<p>I am an International student and I have been accepted into UCLA for Computer Science (B.S.). I have also been accepted into UIUC for Computer Science. From what I have found, UIUC’s CS department seems to be in the top 5 while UCLA’s is in the top 15. But UCLA’s overall reputation as a university seems to be greater than UIUC’s. Could you tell me about how well UCLA’s CS department compares to UIUC’s in terms of employability by companies like Google, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, Apple etc. Where would you recommend I go? </p>
<p>My son is accepted into UCLA engineering. On the engineering website the department has posted change of major effective fall 2011. My question is can an admitted student change their major within the school of engineering on orientation day or before, or do they now have to wait until the end of their second quarter? If it is now only the end of the 2nd quarter for freshman, the website posts there are no guarantees petition will be approved, can you tell me how hard it is to switch majors with the school of engineering. Any freshman from 2011 can you comment on the process if you switched majors with the school. He is thinking about Computer Science.</p>