<p>I was just wondering how much computer science experience the students going into the School of Computer Science have. As in, how much with the subject, how many years of programming, etc. is average? </p>
<p>And how hard is it for students with very little computer science experience? I heard the beginning classes are difficult to weed out students who aren't serious about it.</p>
<p>Thanks for your time!
~Lola</p>
<p>Although I’m not a CS student, I’ve taken CS classes and the majority of my close friends are in CS.</p>
<p>It seems typical that students might only have a year or two of programming. Many other students have done crazy things like start their own software company or have been web designing for years. However, on the other end of the spectrum, there are also plenty of kids who haven’t ever written a line of code. They just think CS would be cool to do for a living. </p>
<p>The most important (and hardest) part of CS is not the programming, but the math. Any CS student on this board will probably say this. If you can handle difficult math (math that I can’t even look at without wanting to crawl in a hole and die) then you should be set for the programming weeder courses.</p>
<p>I’m also guessing that you’re female based on your username. If this is wrong, my bad. 
However, girls in SCS traditionally have much less cs experience (but more math experience to balance it out). In fact, I can only think of three girls I know who had substantial cs experience coming in. Keep in mind that SCS is still pretty male slanted so there aren’t many women to start with.</p>