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BrainFloss
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Hi everyone,
It's that time again at my school-registration. I've been picking out my classes but I came across a rather annoying dilemma. My discrete math and data structures and program design classes conflict temporally. The discrete math class would count for my math minor, and the data structures class is the next sequence in the computer science program and it was suggested to me to take at least a year of programming to be a good physicist. However, it is not counted towards my physics degree or my two minors (math and chemistry).
So which one do I take? Is it more important to know the math behind all my physics or be hip with the new technology that's so important nowadays (I keep hearing about physicists who wish they had taken more programming in college). I absolutely hate computer science, I find it to be the most boring and frustrating thing on the planet, but I see as eating my vegetables, I suppose. It's good for me.
This wouldn't be a problem if I could just take a different math class for the time being but I can't because all the other math classes I need to take I am not ready for yet. (pre-reqs...) Pushing a math class back and taking my last GE instead (which is what I would have to do if I cut out discrete because I have no where to go) would make me have one more class left over after my intended graduation date. :/ Argh!
Also, I know it would not be a very good idea to hold off on programming, as I would forget everything I have learned in my object oriented programming class this semester, especially since I dislike it so much...maybe I can just take a programming in C class at a community college later if my employer wants me to?
Thanks, guys...
It's that time again at my school-registration. I've been picking out my classes but I came across a rather annoying dilemma. My discrete math and data structures and program design classes conflict temporally. The discrete math class would count for my math minor, and the data structures class is the next sequence in the computer science program and it was suggested to me to take at least a year of programming to be a good physicist. However, it is not counted towards my physics degree or my two minors (math and chemistry).
So which one do I take? Is it more important to know the math behind all my physics or be hip with the new technology that's so important nowadays (I keep hearing about physicists who wish they had taken more programming in college). I absolutely hate computer science, I find it to be the most boring and frustrating thing on the planet, but I see as eating my vegetables, I suppose. It's good for me.
This wouldn't be a problem if I could just take a different math class for the time being but I can't because all the other math classes I need to take I am not ready for yet. (pre-reqs...) Pushing a math class back and taking my last GE instead (which is what I would have to do if I cut out discrete because I have no where to go) would make me have one more class left over after my intended graduation date. :/ Argh!
Also, I know it would not be a very good idea to hold off on programming, as I would forget everything I have learned in my object oriented programming class this semester, especially since I dislike it so much...maybe I can just take a programming in C class at a community college later if my employer wants me to?
Thanks, guys...