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I had to take Calc 2 at another college because the Calc 2 profs hear were too awful. Couldn't speak English or communicate effectively

Which CSU? My sister goes to CSU san jose and said barely anyone passed Calc 2. Is that common? I'm a dumb dumb so I never took it.
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Cornmuffins posted...

Which CSU? My sister goes to CSU san jose and said barely anyone passed Calc 2. Is that common? I'm a dumb dumb so I never took it.

I don't want put too much of my identity online since I post arguably controversial stuff here.

But I don't go to San Jose and I can confirm almost no one passed Calc 2 here either. Maybe like 10-20% of every class passes.

Supposedly it's a Cal State wide issue and that the deans are well aware of this so the necessity of Calc 2 has gone into question since employers have been going to the Cal States recently to complain that they weren't producing enough CS students or something

I heard all of this through professors and department heads

imo Calc 2 is mega hard and unlike any other Math Course, even Calc 1 and 3

because there are so many cases of integrals you literally have to memorize. I know someone in here said it's bad to memorize math, but you have to. If you tried to figure out some of the special case integrals on an exam you will run out of time.

The best thing to do is to memorize every special case integral independently since they always throw that shit at you for the exam

I know this won't impress anyone, but I built maybe 20 complicated Turing machines Saturday and that is way easier imo than what you find in Calc 2. Even the more advanced conceptual Computer Science stuff is easier than Calc 2 because there's reason put behind it. It's not raw memorization with no application like Calc 2 is. You will never apply calc 2 to anything for your entirely life most likely. Not even sure who uses in to make money

I feel like I lucked out on this sort of thing.

I basically grinded through all my Math, Science, and foreign language requirements in about a year and a half at community college and then I transferred to CU boulder and did my CS degree and it worked out nicely and I had a great GPA at the end of my BS (3.89).

The professors at the Community College were mostly good, the class sizes were relatively small, and the level of the students was a bit lower so the professors didn't just teach things assuming that the students were starting with a very high proficiency.

I felt bad for the kids fresh out of high school that were basically thrown to the wolves taking Calc, Physics, and programming courses at the same time while I basically got to put almost all my focus into programming with a few fun courses sprinkled in to hit 12 credits (the minimum to be a full time student).
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Milkman5 posted...

Not even sure who uses in to make money

Well, if you want to talk about compression algorithms, we have to look into Fourier transform functions and the like
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Atralis posted...

I feel like I lucked out on this sort of thing.

I basically grinded through all my Math, Science, and foreign language requirements in about a year and a half at community college and then I transferred to CU boulder and did my CS degree and it worked out nicely and I had a great GPA at the end of my BS (3.89).

The professors at the Community College were mostly good, the class sizes were relatively small, and the level of the students was a bit lower so the professors didn't just teach things assuming that the students were starting with a very high proficiency.

I felt bad for the kids fresh out of high school that were basically thrown to the wolves taking Calc, Physics, and programming courses at the same time while I basically got to put almost all my focus into programming with a few fun courses sprinkled in to hit 12 credits (the minimum to be a full time student).

Definitely, man.

You need a strategy going in and I had absolutely no strategy as did other people. If I could do it all over again, I would have done it so differently, and would have likely graduated by now

Yeah, those integrals are tricky. But understanding how to derive them makes memorizing them so much easier. That's my point. Memorizing is a tool you use to learn, not a goal.
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What are you finding difficult with CFGs?
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Anteaterking posted...

What are you finding difficult with CFGs?

It was a CFG pumping lemma that I was having trouble with