<p>DId you like your first two semesters of computer programming courses? I am CS major and I would like to know if it's going to get more intense and perhaps more interesting as we proceed.</p>
<p>wait till you get till your basic algorithms class. thats when the people who you took cs 1 and CS 2 with will disappear. well it does get a **** load more intense, CS1 & 2 are for kids. Honestly they are made to keep the cs departments alive. They are easy and even easier if you are a java school. My school in general gets around 400 new cs students each fall and about 70 new ones in the spring, these are freshman. after cs 1 the numbers almost cut in half and after cs 2 it becomes even less. such that the entire cs department is around 90 students of a school for 27,000 students. the class you take after cs2 which is usually algorithms, is made to be hard. Its hard because if ya cant handle basic algos then you have no shot at advanced ones. I loved algorithms, but the class average for my algorithms class was a 33% and there were about 70 people in it. Its hard. after that you are pretty much more respected as a programmer and things become more interesting. such as operating systems and programming Languages. I tend not to find most programming interesting and tend more to focus on VSLI.</p>
<p>I'm a junior minoring in CS. Obviously, I'm in quite a few courses with CS majors, and from what I've heard, 2nd year is a crazy amount of work. From the courses I've taken, I'd have to agree that the assignments are much longer/harder than CS 1 and 2. In 3rd and 4th year, they supposedly cut back on the work(I have yet to see this, however!), so just hang in there if you're burning out in your 2nd year courses.</p>
<p>They'll become more intense, that's for sure. But more interesting? I don't think so.</p>