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First year formal maths isn't that hard once you get your head round it. They will have tutorials and praticals to help you understand the material. All else fails ask someone who understands it to show you.
I'm happy enough to say that a few times at uni i had to ask a fellow student for help. (i dropped maths in the second year which i regret)
I'm happy enough to say that a few times at uni i had to ask a fellow student for help. (i dropped maths in the second year which i regret)
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Any computer science course that doesn't involve a healthy and regular slab of maths isn't really computer science.
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There was a fair amount of maths in my degree thinking back but apart from one module that was just maths I didn't really notice it. If you put the time in you'll be fine fella, don't stress it too much, just put the effort in and ask people who seem to breeze it for a bit of help.
I found at the start the pure maths module was daunting at first but once you actually started to apply it to things it actually had some relevance and came easier.
I found at the start the pure maths module was daunting at first but once you actually started to apply it to things it actually had some relevance and came easier.
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If you think the 1st year is hard you will probably struggle in the 2nd year.
In my Uni they made you do extra maths modules if you didn't have A-level maths....
I just scraped an E for A-level maths (even tho I got a B at GCSE) so I didn't do these modules, but you'll find lots of CS modules involve maths, like any other science subject really.
In my Uni they made you do extra maths modules if you didn't have A-level maths....
I just scraped an E for A-level maths (even tho I got a B at GCSE) so I didn't do these modules, but you'll find lots of CS modules involve maths, like any other science subject really.
You're going to need to pick up a few books and swot up mate, you'll have a couple more, much more difficult maths modules in Years 2/3.
I had:
Year 1: Maths in Computer Science
Year 2: Discrete Maths
Year 3: Even harder module I can't remember the name of.
Not to mention the fact that a lot of modules are very mathematically oriented.
You were lucky then, most BSc CompSci degrees have compulsory maths modules in every year..
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Decent uni's like Southampton not only require a decent level of maths on entry (A usually) but also have two maths modules in the first semester of the first year. Without passing that, you can't continue.
I'm doing an beng in software engineering and I didn't need any maths for my course (main reseason I picked this uni!)
The bsc in comp sci here doesn't need maths either.
We had a module called "the maths driving license" in the first year which taught us all the maths we needed for the course, how ever if you wish to do an image processing type degree you need to do "advanced maths driving license" which is insainly hard, 2 of my friends who got A's at A-level advances maths, struggled like hell with it!
The bsc in comp sci here doesn't need maths either.
We had a module called "the maths driving license" in the first year which taught us all the maths we needed for the course, how ever if you wish to do an image processing type degree you need to do "advanced maths driving license" which is insainly hard, 2 of my friends who got A's at A-level advances maths, struggled like hell with it!
i wormed by way in through clearing. i want to work for google.
it says on their website that you need a comp sci degree.
and yes it is binary, hex, octal etc
they want me to work some of it out in my head!
edit: oops, sorry about double post, poor wireless signal.
it says on their website that you need a comp sci degree.
and yes it is binary, hex, octal etc
they want me to work some of it out in my head!
edit: oops, sorry about double post, poor wireless signal.
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As did mine, but from what I can tell people on here are tying to argue that Comp Science is math through and through, which just isn't true, and nor should it be. Was the math actually applicable to any other the work you done at uni?
40% isn't difficult is it? After that you pretty much able to pick what you want. They tried to tell us that it was needed for the rest of the course, but tbh I haven't used it since for uni or work and I've been in a developer/senior developer position for 5 years since leaving uni.
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Well it is (or what it used to be)...
Discrete maths/algorithsm/theory of computation etc...
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Computer science is a fundamentally mathematically oriented discipline whereas programming isn't. The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Many computer science degrees tend to teach nothing but software engineering/programming. This is not computer science. Many people lament the fact that 'real' CS tends to be very rarely taught these days.
The distinction has been discussed to death on the Slashdot forums.
It's moved on from the early years where it was all about binary, mantissa's and exponents. Nowadays it's much more high level at the vast majority of uni's. Java is usually the main language that is taught. And high level object oriented fundamentals make up much of the course.
Sure there's still some math but it's not exactly hard if you keep your head down. Boolean logic, search trees, graphs etc. Just avoid modules to do with artificial intelligence and stuff like that because it can get quite intense if you're not terribly good with math.
Sure there's still some math but it's not exactly hard if you keep your head down. Boolean logic, search trees, graphs etc. Just avoid modules to do with artificial intelligence and stuff like that because it can get quite intense if you're not terribly good with math.
I got a C for my maths GCSE and didn't take it for AS/A2.
I did my first year of Computer Science before moving onto the second year of Computing and Networks (disliked the programming). But I managed to get an A for computing mathematics. I also had to do modules on principles of Computing (logic gates, electronics etc, as well as computer systems involving detailed analysis in cache, management, memory algorithms etc)
Even though I'm not a natural mathematician, I was just persistant with my attendance and revision, all of which paid off (always been the kind of kid at school that had to try harder than all the rest).
I did my first year of Computer Science before moving onto the second year of Computing and Networks (disliked the programming). But I managed to get an A for computing mathematics. I also had to do modules on principles of Computing (logic gates, electronics etc, as well as computer systems involving detailed analysis in cache, management, memory algorithms etc)
Even though I'm not a natural mathematician, I was just persistant with my attendance and revision, all of which paid off (always been the kind of kid at school that had to try harder than all the rest).
