<p>The [url=<a href="http://cse.ucsd.edu/cse11%5Ddescription%5B/url">http://cse.ucsd.edu/cse11]description[/url</a>] of who these classes are appropriate for strikes me as incredibly vague, so I'm hoping someone who's already gone through CSE 11 could tell me what it's like, what it covers, how difficult it is, etc. I'm transferring in from a community college, so I've already got a bit of experience behind me, but I don't know if it's enough. I'm already familiar with inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling, recursion, and various ways of dicking around with arrays and linked lists. On the other hand, I haven't so much as seen a UNIX box much less worked with one, and have little experience with the AWT library (for making GUIs). I'm only taking 12 units since this is my first semester; does acing this course seem like a reasonable goal, or should I opt out for the less difficult but longer CSE 8 series?</p>
<p>I have not gone through CSE 11 but I was trying to do some research on the question myself, I found this page: [CSE</a> 11 Home Page](<a href=“http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ricko/CSE11/]CSE”>CSE 11 Home Page) here you can find the midterms and final exams and quizzes. You can look through the material and see how comfortable you are.</p>
<p>Kyle Wilson</p>
<p>cse 8a/8b is a two part course. 8a will be taken in the first quarter and 8b will be taken after. However, only 8b or 11 iis required for a cs or ce major with 8a basically being worth empty credits. If youve already done some programming 11 will only take one quarter but it is definitely harder than the 8 series. I took the 8 series last year as a freshman and i easily got an A+ in 8b with very little programming experience. My friend who took the 11 series and from what i saw, his programming assignments were much harder. If youre willing to take the extra quarter to do 8a and 8b, you’ll probably end up with an easier series with higher grades and less work. While some of the hw coding assignments are very similar, 11 is a lot faster and if you have no experience coding, you’ll do very badly, trust me. Try to do well in these cse classes because you’ll need the gpa boost later when classes get tougher</p>
<p>Side note: Always try to get into Rick Ord’s classes. And if you take the CSE advising quiz, do not take CSE3, its worthless and a waste of time.</p>