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Originally posted by Cloudburst wtf you have ONE math course? We had like 10-15 math courses in my computer science education.

well, it is a bachelor of computer "and information science".

this CIS degree is the equivalent of "bachelor of IT", at most universities. our university does not have a "computer science" degree; you either do CIS or engineering (soft dev) or engineering (networks & telecomms), etc.

i have one other maths course (statistics), but i dont really count it as maths, because it's not too hard.

I've taken discrete math 1 & 2 at my university, and you really dont need to know too much algebra for it. Its really different from the type of math you usually learn. Although i did have to complete calculus 1 & 2, you dont have to learn any calculus for your degree?

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Originally posted by neovalkyr you dont have to learn any calculus for your degree?

nope, just discrete maths and stats

bachelor of IT degrees focus less on academic stuff and more on "practical" stuff. for example, they know alot of IT graduates won't go on to be programmers, so advanced maths is not as important. conversely, computer science graduates will often be programmers and systems designers, so they focus more on maths.

Last edited by echosystm on Aug-03-2008 at 09:26

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Originally posted by echosystm nope, just discrete maths and stats

What kind of stats are we talking here? First year shit? Or the funky MANOVA and hierarchical multiple regression shit?

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Originally posted by Sushipunk What kind of stats are we talking here? First year shit? Or the funky MANOVA and hierarchical multiple regression shit?

Yeah man, first year shit.

"Descriptive summaries: measures of central tendency and dispersion, tables, business graphics, correlation, simple linear regression, multiple regression, ANOVA, index numbers, time series. Basis of statistical inference. Confidence, tolerance and prediction intervals and sample size calculations. Hypothesis testing."

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Originally posted by echosystm nope, just discrete maths and stats bachelor of IT degrees focus less on academic stuff and more on "practical" stuff. for example, they know alot of IT graduates won't go on to be programmers, so advanced maths is not as important. conversely, computer science graduates will often be programmers and systems designers, so they focus more on maths.

Ah that's good. You'll probably cover stuff like logic, matrix multiplication, and counting. For example. The number of different possible orderings of a deck of n cards is f(n) = n!. It's pretty boring to be honest, but I had a good teacher which made it a lot easier.

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there's probably a reason why you forgot all that stuff.

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