<p>After this summer semester I will have completed the required courses for transfer and will be applying to GT. If I'm accepted I'll still have to attend the fall semester at my current school. I'm planning on taking Calc 3 and Phys 2 this fall for sure. I was also thinking about going ahead and knocking out Diff Eq as well. I would like to know from any of you current or former GT students if there is a particular course or courses that I should definately try to finish before Tech, and if there are any courses that I should wait to take at Tech. Things I'm considering: C Programming, Statics, Engineering Design Graphics(solidworks).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>have you taken linear algebra yet? In order to transfer calc 2 from your current institution to GT you will need to take linear algebra also…if not then it will only transfer as MATH 15x2 rather than 1502 and you will need to take linear algebra at tech in order to get the complete calc 2 credit…so i suggest taking linear algebra if you havent already done so</p>
<p>No I haven’t taken linear algebra yet. I was thinking of waiting on that one because I talked to an admissions advisor once and he told me that they offered a “bridge course” in linear algebra to catch up the missing content from Calc 2. The way it sounded, and I may have missunderstood, was that the bridge course wasn’t a full on linear algebra course. So I didn’t want to take a whole 4 hour course if I didn’t have to. I guess I need to clarify that with Tech. Thanks for the input.</p>
<p>What’s your major, saraleigh?</p>
<p>Mechanical Engineering</p>
<p>You’re on the right track with taking Calc3 and Physics 2. If you really want to be ambitious, i’d take DiffEq. It sounds like you’re transfering from GPC, is this correct? If this is the case I wouldn’t bother with taking and programming or engineering classes until you get to tech.</p>
<p>I dont think gpc offers c programming, i think shes is from either spsu or gsu.</p>
<p>SPSU 10char</p>
<p>ME majors at GT are not required to take C programming… what class do you think that will transfer as? The computer science class for engineers at GT is CS1371, which is in MATLAB which is very different from C, so your C programming class might not transfer as anything useful… definitely look into that.</p>
<p>maea
You’re right. I looked at oscar and it transfers as Intro to Computing, which is not required for the ME program. Have you taken MATLAB at Tech? Any suggestions before taking this course. I’ve never done any programming or anything. Also, would learning Solidworks help prep me for the design course at Tech?</p>
<p>I’m a computer science major so I don’t know what design technologies you should learn… familiarize yourself with it if you’re interested though, it can’t hurt</p>
<p>Also as a comp sci major, I’m gonna be a poor judge of the difficulty of a computer science class. I have taken MATLAB at Tech (before I was a CS major… I was math then), and found it very straightforward and logical. Then again a lot of engineers complain about it and say it’s very hard. Though honestly if you are able to pass your C programming class at your school you can definitely do fine in CS 1371.</p>
<p>Well, that’s why I was thinking of taking a programming class, just to get some sort of programming experience. Also, I was thinking of taking a semester of Solidworks even though Tech uses Catia, just to get used to some sort of design program. The only downfall of taking all of these “primer” classes, is that I’m running out of Hope Scholarship hours. I know Tech is fast paced though and I want to do all that I can to be succesful.</p>
<p>@saraleigh117 i recommend taking java if you have that at spsu…i wouldnt directly take C programming unless you have experience with another programming language first. Im sure there must be a pre-requisite for the C programming class like VB or JAVA or something similar to that. Also, since you said your going to take Calc 3 and Phys 2 and maybe diff eq i would suggest taking java rather than C because sometimes understanding the logic is the hardest part in coding (atleast for me) so you definitely want to get a schedule you can handle. My brother goes to spsu and they made him take a couple of classes as pre-requisites before he could take Csharp. If you are trying to save HOPE hours you can also learn basic programming at home through tutorials, itll require some reading but its definitely doable and it’ll save you some hope hours. If you are not taking too many classes in the summer and can commit a couple of hours each day to learn java or vb you can definitely learn it at home. The compiler for vb and java is free so i would definitely look into learning it at home and saving the hope hours for the future</p>
<p>saraleigh, I wasn’t thinking about HOPE hours when I posted. Honestly if you’re worried about HOPE hours I would get as many of the core requirements out of the way as possible, like Humanities, Social Science, etc.</p>
<p>I would take C if I wanted to. You will learn if you have the software development love or gift. Some do, some don’t. It is not necessary for engineers.</p>
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<p>The only C class I took at GT was CS2130 - Language and Translations - im not sure how this class (or whatever has become of it) relates to CS1371, but the labs were absolutely ridiculous. It was supposed to be one of the hardest C classes in the nation and a big deal breaker for people who started out as CMPE and dropped into EE. My point is that programming is programming but don’t expect to stroll past it at tech because you’ve seen a flavor of it.</p>
<p>I’ve taken CS1371 and then switched to a CS major, and honestly in comparison to other CS classes I’ve taken (including one which contained intro C), it was very simple. You just have to be able to understand the logic behind a for loop, if statement, etc and then learn a few applications like matrices of colors (to make an image), stuff like that.</p>
<p>Don’t take C. It is a very difficult language, and as difficult to transition to as your transition to physics. If you want to prime yourself, try learning python through their official tutorials.</p>
<p>i dont think any school lets you take C or any other higher level programming language before taking a simpler programming language first</p>
<p>At SPSU C programming is the first, if not the only, programming class that the MET students have to take. It’s pre-req is Math 1113, which is just a pre-calc class. I had a friend that took it and said it was terrible. But he also said that it was used in some of the later MET labs.</p>