<p>I’m a high school senior doing dual-enrollment at the U of Minnesota. I plan to go into civil engineering in college. I’m trying to decide which class I should take spring semester:</p>
<li>computer applications in civil engineering I, or</li>
<li>intro to C++ for science/engineering majors</li>
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<p>The first one seems more applicable for civil major, but maybe too specific for a high school student?</p>
<p>Thanks for your inputs!</p>
<p>if #1 is CAD, these two classes are like totally different classes. just decide if you want to learn CAD or programming language first. you'll probably need both eventually.</p>
<p>The course catalog says:</p>
<p>Introduction to computer tools/methods for solving civil engineering problems. Spreadsheets, Autocad, Mathcad, Visual Basic. Numerical integration, curve fitting, linear/nonlinear equations, differential equations</p>
<p>for Computer Apps in CE.</p>
<p>It doesn't sound too specific to me. My guess is that they'll just use civil engineering examples in the work instead of something generic.</p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time to look into that! The applications one definitely sounds more interesting...</p>