Computer Science Students

[jotto84]

With all of us here being computer guru's [to say the least] did we all take a Computer Science course in high school? How did you guys do? I am in AP Computer Science, and it's all about programming c++, pretty hard, and although my passion is with computers the class is hard nonetheless and my grade is an disgraceful B

How did you guys do?

[LawyerRon]

jotto,
All that computer science stuff requires mathematics. And apparently in mathematics there is a "correct answer". Therefore, I went to Law School.

[jotto84]

LOL

[audiyoda]

Here at MSU, we have Computer Science majors that don't need math -- we call them Telecommunication majors. And then there are those of us who are Telecomm grad students.....I won't even go there.....

-Craig

[SARGE]

Lawman, Perry Mason always had the correct answer. You can do it

[DrZaius]

Hi jotto84,

I took AP Computer Science A my sophomore year and AP Computer Science AB my junior of high school. I got a B+ in the CompSci A class and got a 5 on the AP test that year. Yet, I got a A in the CompSci AB class and got a 4 on the AP test, go figure. It really helped me out though because the 5 on the A test let me skip a class when I got to college, and if I would have had a 5 on the AB I could have skipped two classes. It may get hard at times, I know I was confused when I first heard about O(n) notation and hash tables, but it's not as hard as it seems. I learned that for many people liking computers (hardware) != liking programming (software), but I like both!

grade is an disgraceful B

B, disgraceful? Hardly!

[LawyerRon]

SARGE, Perry M. had "AN" answer. An answer the jury bought. That's all that's really needed in my line of work.

[SARGE]

Always thought what matters is the truth, but then I'm just a telephone man Perry had the right answers not "an" answer. Never could figure out who done it until he dropped the bomb.

[southrk]

wanna know whats sad? i graduated from High school 3 years ago, My computer science class in H.S. was Qbasic, talk about technologically advanced. lol. Now i am an Information Systems Major in college.

[DrZaius]

Wow, QBASIC? Can you even do anything advanced with that? I use to play around with QBASIC a long time ago, I'd spend days making all kinds of programs the hard way since I never took the time then to learn about arrays and such.

In high school (I graduated last year) we used C++, but in college we ditched it for Java, which is a much nicer and more refined version of C++ in my opinion.

[dj4uk]

I got a degree in Electronic Engineering but the Maths was a nightmare so I decided not to do it as a career.

[jotto84]

yeah, the collegeboard is making the official switch to java over the current c++ next year so this AP course won't give me credits

[LawyerRon]

Sorry SARGE, I don't know any Lawyers like Perry.

[Demosthenes]

Oh, I hate the AP program. It is just a new way to rip $80 off of students. It is just as silly as the SAT program, which, coincidentally, is run by the same people. Nothing bugs me more than a company that declares what is important for students to know. The AP program was a waste of my time personally (I did do very well, though). At CMU, we basically went through the entire AP program in the first half of the first semester, and that was just my introductory intermediate programming class. I also got to meet with some of the people who designed the AP Comp Sci program. As for Java being a refined C++, well. . .

Respectfully,

Demosthenes

[Paul Victorey]

You know what *my* CS class in hgih school was?

Microsoft works. It was pretty much like this:

Teacher: Okaaaaaaayyyyyy... now THIIIIIIISSSS is a 'spreadsheet'.
Me: (thinking) Please kill me.

Luckily, I already knew x86 assembler and C++, so I didn't need classes.

[ut1205]

My first (and only) computer class was in college at the same time the draft board and Vietnam was in my near future. It was a class in Fortran. We wrote our programs on IBM Punch Cards and turned them in to be run on the IBM 360 Computer. I'll swear that computer took 1000 square foot room just to hold it. I couldn't pick up the results of my "run" until the next day. I usually had an error in the first line of code.
My first PC was in 1980 and was a TI 99. It had no hard drive and I finally saved enough money to buy a cassette tape recorder to save my work but it never worked right. If you wanted to play a game you had to write the DOS code yourself.
Twenty something years later I'm still messing with these things as a hobby and love every minute of it. I'm getting ready to build a new system using the Soyo Dragon board. In some ways it was a lot easier back then. We didn't know what a "Blue Screen" was.