<p>I am a senior in high school planning to attend USF in the fall pursuing a computer science degree. I want to be a software engineer. have taken up to Calculus with Analytic Geometry 2 at the community college (now a college). In may I will graduate high school ranked 2 in my class with an AA degree from the cc. I applied as an entering freshman, but I got a lot of classes out of the way. The pointless ones like humanities and freshman comp. My question is should I retake my Calculus classes my freshman year and start calc 3 my sophomore year.? I got 100 A in calc 1 with a 92 on the exam and I have a 97 right now in calc 2. I've heard that I need to build my math foundation as best I can so that's why I'm considering taking these classes. Should I.?
Thanks.
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<p>If you’ve already taken calc 1 & 2 at the CC, I would say just go straight to calc 3 at the university and not waste any time retaking them. A lot of people go to community colleges and get either an AA general studies or a preengineering degree and then go to a University without retaking.</p>
<p>If you took calculus 1 and 2 at a Florida CC, you can check to see if the course numbers match those at University of South Florida using the Florida common course numbering system (presumably MAC 2281 and 2282 or MAC 2311 and 2312). If they match (based on the last three digits of the course number), then they should be equivalent and transferable, so you can take the next course in sequence.</p>
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<p>I read up on that and the ones I took are mot exactly equivalent but they do transfer and count as my engineering calc. The ones I took were mac 2311 and 2312.</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.ugs.usf.edu/pdf/cat1213/15Engineering.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ugs.usf.edu/pdf/cat1213/15Engineering.pdf</a> indicates that either MAC 2281/2282 or MAC 2311/2312 are accepted for CS majors. So it looks like you are fine with the courses you are taking at the CC.</p>
<p>Should I retake again to truly be a calculus expert? I want to be a software engineer. Would I need to be really good at this stuff.?</p>
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<p>Are you really going to learn more from learning something you already know?
Take something more useful. The higher level classes solidify your understanding of the basics.</p>
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<p>No. Florida obviously intends for MAC 2311/2312 at the CC to be the same as MAC 2311/2312 at USF and other public universities. Junior transfer students are expected to continue on to more advanced courses after completing the frosh/sophomore level courses at CC. You would just be wasting your time retaking the courses. Just continue on with MAC 2313 or 2283 and other courses.</p>
<p>Okay. Thanks. I’ll take your advice.</p>
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<p>The answer is no. If your Calc II covered power and Taylor series then you should be fine. I took Calc III for engineers at USF and it is much easier than Calc II anyway (to me anyway). </p>
<p>Good job on the advanced studies. Go Bulls!</p>