<p>I need to take one of these classes.
Can someone who has experience in one or both compare them? I am interested in knowing about things like difficulty and how useful the material is (like when doing scientific research).
I have taken AP CS AB, and Calculus BC in high school and did fine.</p>
<p>I’ve taken them both (taking E7 right now). 61A is much much harder than E7, and a lot less useful for practical stuff - but it’s still one of the best classes I’ve ever taken. Let me put it this way - 61A will teach you how to think like a programmer, E7 will teach you Matlab and some basic stuff in programming, but you’re much more likely to use that in research etc.</p>
<p>MATLAB is a useful thing to know, but E7 itself as a class is sort of a waste of time. I hear lots of good things about 61A, but like the above user said, Scheme isn’t very practical.</p>
<p>well once you take 61A, you should be able to pick up new programming languages relatively easily… and matlab is a very high level language that’s easy to pick up</p>
<p>LISP is pretty useful.</p>
<p>Matlab is way more useful for research and stuff.</p>