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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the Syllabi of these online CS courses?

1 pointsby captainzidgelover 4 years ago
Been out of school for 3 years, working at Walmart and they have a benefit that will basically pay for all my schooling for participating programs.<p>I&#x27;ve narrowed it to these two programs by virtue of the deadline to apply not being in the next 4 days, but the start date not being 4 months from now.<p>Southern New Hampshire Uni: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snhu.edu&#x2F;admission&#x2F;academic-catalogs&#x2F;coce-catalog#&#x2F;programs&#x2F;V1S14E8tg&#x2F;none?bc=true&amp;bcCurrent=Computer%20Science%20(BS)&amp;bcGroup=STEM&amp;bcItemType=programs<p>Wilmington Uni: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilmu.edu&#x2F;technology&#x2F;computer-science-curriculum.aspx<p>I&#x27;d have to take a readiness assessment before applying to Wilmington, so if I fail that it makes the choice easier, but otherwise I don&#x27;t really know. I would also have to choose a concentration for either program, but that will probably be easier.<p>Looking at the syllabus, it looks like Wilmington Gen Ed requires less (relatively) higher math, which would be attractive to me because the last math class I took was Alg 1 3-4 years ago and I don&#x27;t want to get bodied.<p>What are your immediate thoughts? (I guess I should probably state my education goals - get an employable degree and learn cool stuff along the way, the gen ed might actually be more valuable to me than the CS stuff spending 1 hour lessons explaining what a function is)

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brudgersover 4 years ago
A word of caution. A lot of college classes start deceptively easy, e.g. &quot;one hour on what a function is&quot; but ramp up quickly to where success on week four&#x27;s quiz is truly a matter of having done the homework and devoting time to study.<p>It&#x27;s better to assume you don&#x27;t know much about the subject from day one. If the first week studying only takes a half hour, spend the other five and half hours getting ahead on future weeks.<p>Good luck.
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