<p>Are there any people here that have taken the AP/EA summer program at CMU? I was interested in the robotics and ECE course. Anyone have any feedback on the program or these courses?</p>
<p>i went for diversity AP/EA. its virtually the same as pre-college ap/ea, except it didnt cost me anything.
i took intro programming and intro ethics. i enjoyed both courses as well as the overall experience very very much. my friend took robotics and ECE and i think he spent a lot of time working for those two courses. if you are not a hard-core comp sci enthusiast, the combination of those two may not be for you.
yes i do recommend the program. its the most fun ive ever had in my life. the people i met are on the same level as i, and i enjoyed talking about our shared passions during those 6 weeks.</p>
<p>i was in the regular AP/EA -- I had three friends in ECE and they said it was extremely extremely difficult -- most of the class did very poorly on pretty much all the tests from what I remember hearing about it. I had one friend in robotics and he seemed to enjoy it. but taking both of those will take a lot of time.</p>
<p>i really enjoyed the program, though. and get a rec from a professor while you're there!</p>
<p>collegefreak12: I definitely recommend applying to CMU precollege/diversity program over the summer. It was awesome. The stuff you'll learn and the people you'll meet will be amazing. trust me.</p>
<p>Agree with dude_guy, definitely recommend you go there for the summer. </p>
<p>I knew a lot of people who took ECE + Robotics and if you have an interest in that kind of stuff, you'll love it. Robotics I heard was pretty much an easy A, but ECE was hard. The class averaged about 65 on the tests, but luckily there's a curve. </p>
<p>And those two course combinations really suck up all the time you have. My roommate did them and I practically only saw him on the weekend.</p>
<p>haha. dakalador
whos your roommate?</p>
<p>Do people actually go there to get a good grade though? I thought, since its the summer, its more of a fun thing to do in a cool field, I didn't know its so grade intense...How much work/ week is involved in the ECE course? Studying + actually class/ lab time I mean.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know or could they find out, what kind of programming (what language) is used the the ECE class and what things to you make in labs (what kinds of robots) of the ECE class. </p>
<p>Also, what kind of robots do you make in the Robotics class.</p>
<p>Greatly appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure I saw my friend programming in Java for the robotics class, but that's all I know. It shouldn't be hard at all. And I knew a few people in that class. Seemed fun! </p>
<p>ECE seemed to be really tough though. People were working on problem sets and studying for that class all the time.</p>
<p>i dont remember seeing people program in ECE. it was all conceptual and was presented in a weird thats not like your normal electricity part in physics). i think tahts why a lot of poeple got confused. its a hard class and i know people (who are easy-A students) who spent averagely two to three hours a night TRYING to finish hw. sometimes they just gave up. not a good thing, but it tells you something about that course. i think i can ask my friend for more info.</p>
<p>There is no programming for ECE at all. When building the robots you first set up a section on a breadboard and test it to understand it conceptually. Then you solder it on to the PCB board.
In robotics, I'm pretty sure they program in C#.</p>
<p>I really didn't like ECE lab part to tell you the truth. You spend 6 hours a week on a really pathetic robot that you'll need to spend about $100 for.</p>
<p>Monday - Friday 80 minute lectures
Tuesday, Thurdsay 3 hour labs</p>
<p>Personally, some of the homeworks took me a lot of hours to do(4-6), but you get them every other day. I'm pretty sure the teacher said that this was the hardest class you can take for the precollege program as well.</p>
<p>Grade wise, I can only assume some people go there for grades. Like for ECE, there was a curve where the average grade was set for a C. I can't say I did that great test-wise, but I still managed a B. (There are no +'s or -'s). Really depends on the classes you take too if. I knew a lot of people who took chemistry there got over 100 test averages and there was no curve.</p>
<p>So...is it C# or Java? :p.</p>
<p>Bumparoo..</p>
<p>i'd be curious to know what the acceptance rate for people who attended the summer program is.</p>
<p>I would guess that it's slightly higher than usual, since they know that if we got an "A" in the courses we took in APEA, we are at least somewhat prepared for CMU.</p>