>First week of cs class >teacher just talks about understanding

>>56097720
>CS
>Hard

Nope. CS is filled with idiots who think a CS degree is what they want to do because they like video games and think they can design them or because they used Ubuntu once.

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GENTOO!

>>56097720
>expecting week 1 to be hard

CS doesn't really get hard until year 2 or 3

> i am so smart

>>56097720
>first week of first cs class
>expecting it to be hard
I bet you go to a state school as well.

>>56097720
>1 week
wew lad
you're in for some pain

>>56097720
>getting an 85% on your first test
>a flat B
>on the first fucking test

smells like failure to me

I was an advisor at my school.
60% of CS freshmen dropped out before the end of their sophomore year; the vast majority were because they couldn't pass their first data structures course.

>>56097903
shit I hope that doesn't happen too me. I wouldn't get a refund

>>56097903
This is true for most STEM degrees.
Even at something like biomedical lab engineer, Mathematics.

>>56097903
>data structures
Useless shit that have already been implemented a million times.

>>56097720
>python
why are they teaching python as a first language?

>>56097768
>CS doesn't really get hard until year 2 or 3
This >>56097720. Wait for algorithms, operating systems, and programming languages. Then come back and say it's easy.

All the IT stuff in CS is piss easy. I keep falling back on all the math because I'm too lazy to learn it.

>>56098023
foundation of understanding computational complexity

>>56098023
So when would you use a primitive array vs a list? Why would you use the one you picked? Could tradeoffs for these structures exist in other languages besides the one you're using now?

>>56098103
They first go through the basics, some guys never touched a computer ya know.
Even know one fag here in my non-country Belgium who didn't even know basic English.

>>56097903
>first data structures course
I took data structures twice (single course at the school I attended). The first time I found it boring as fuck, since we weren't doing anything user facing with it. Second time around was still hard, but at least I understood more of it.

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>>56098119
>>56098135
>>56098171
Do you guys know any good data structure books? I already passed it, but I feel like it was undeserved since our teacher was a tenure who didn't give a shit and our book was full of typos.
The book has a 2.5 star on amazon....