UCLA Engineering Q&A

<p>Flopsy,</p>

<p>Is it possible to be enrolled in two classes that have a time overlap? I want to take an EE class that's on TR: 10-12 and a GE that's on TR: 9:30-10:45am.</p>

<p>BE 10 was extremely time consuming when I took it. I didn't like that course at all (we only got 2 units for it, it changed after we complained about Tawil - but we still only got 2 units). It's going to require you to read many scientific papers and be able to analyze and extrapolate them (summarize etc.) It's just annoying - I wish they had changed it back to where there were prof's coming in to talk to us about our major and our options.</p>

<p>Overlapping classes? There's some override you select that will let you register with time conflicts in courses.</p>

<p>thanks for the info deuces. can you elaborate on some of the changes they made?</p>

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Is this schedule feasible for winter quarter?</p>

<p>Math 33B
math 61
CS M51A
CS 35L</p>

<p>especially for someone who DIDN'T do exceptionally well in CS 32, 33?

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<p>That sounds like a pretty nice schedule, shouldn't be a problem since those classes don't really use knowledge obtained from CS32 or 33</p>

<p>I honestly don't think they made too many changes - they just upped the unit count and let him do the class. He moved everyone's grades up a letter grade or two at the end since we all had pretty low numbers.</p>

<p>Flopsy, don't know if you can rate this but here goes:</p>

<p>LS 2
CS 31
CHEM 30BL
Chem 199 </p>

<p>in terms of difficulty ;D</p>

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Yes, it's feasible. You don't need CS 32/33 for any of these courses. :rolleyes:</p>

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Yes, it's possible. You need a PTE number from one of your professors in an overlapping class to enroll. You then type that number into the blank provided by URSA when it complains about overlapping time slots. :rolleyes:</p>

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I've only taken one of those courses (CS 31), so I can't rate your schedule. Besides, isn't Chem 199 a research course? :rolleyes:</p>

<p>yep, it's just three classes + laid back research (for the most part, I'm working with a postdoc and a grad in physical chem)</p>

<p>I guess the question I should've just asked how much time projects take for CS 31 for someone with no programming experience, but is pretty fluent with computers (no HTML experience either though..)</p>

<p>Fluency with computers software has very little correlation in completing the projects , unless it's using Visual Studio or similar compilers.</p>

<p>I cannot give you a definite amount of time to complete projects, but for ME: </p>

<p>3-4 hours for Project 1-2
20 hours for Project 3
10-15 hours for Project 4-6
15-20 hours for Project 7</p>

<p>I guess it depends on your logic aptitude, since you haven't had any programming experience. I think about 1/5 of the hours spent for me was just in frustration and sitting in front of the computer :[.</p>

<p>I tried learning basic a few years back. I could..run DOS at one time. It'll be different and tough, but i think I have a light enough quarter to focus on it.</p>

<p>almost a third of your time will be spent banging your head against the wall figuring out what you're gonna do, two-thirds will be spent cursing and debugging, and the little fraction left over will be the actual writing. BASIC won't help you.</p>

<p>can i get away with not going to lecture since i already have experience? they only get to pointers...and i figure the only thing i'll die from is recursion. since i didn't get it after two classes i don't think rohr will help me understand it any better.</p>

<p>yea project 3 was not fun... lol... still waiting for my grade on that one ><
yea so much of your time is spent thinking the logic through</p>

<p>What was project 3 for you guys? Mines was DDR . . </p>

<p>Pointers isn't the last thing in 31, though it is the hardest concept reached. I think it's classes.</p>

<p>Actually, I would say half the time spent is 'stepping through', even for experienced programmers.</p>

<p>Heh, heard about that DDR project from my friend and I thought the idea was hilarious.</p>

<p>Project 3 this year was a spam checker program. We had to program several tests that would increment a spam score if conditions were met (>3 exclamation marks, keywords, capitalization %, etc) and declare if the email was spam if it went over a certain spam score.</p>

<p>I ended up just ordering the C++ book right now internationally. I figure even that although I spend maybe an extra 20 than buying it used... It'll last a long time since I'll keep it with me. Any pointers on where to start (beyond the, my name is Deuces, basic program).</p>

<p>How do breadth courses work? Do you just take any three upper divs from one department?</p>

<p>HSSEAS</a> OASA | Undergraduate Technical Breadth Areas</p>

<p>info's there</p>

<p>in addition to the other departments in engineering there's... tech management, nanotech etc.</p>