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From: jxs7451@ritcv.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Math and CS
Message-ID: <9459@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 01:02:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 01:02:47 1986
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Reply-To: jxs7451@ritcv.UUCP (jeff)
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In article <5826@kestrel.ARPA> ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin) writes:
>In article <9430@ritcv.UUCP>, jxs7451@ritcv.UUCP writes:
>> The funny thing about CS student having problems with math is that most math
>> students have big problems with comp sci courses.  
>
>Hardly. Only the ones that aren't interested. I don't recall any
>math students having problems with analysis of algorithms, 
>compiler design, theory of computation, logic or graph theory.
>And most don't have problems with the concurrency puzzles that
>constitute a significant fragment of operating systems courses.
>Where did you get this idea from?
>
>Peter Ladkin
sorry Peter, 

what you say might be true in general, but not at RIT.  I am in fact
a u-grad in a Comp math program here.  Personally I do good in the CS
courses, but many of my friends in the various majors here are not so
good.  I can think of 4 or 5 people off hand that have switched majors
because of the CS courses they were required to take.  And I know many
more that are not good with it, but they suffer through it anyway.

Then again "the ones that aren't interested" in something rarely do
well at it.  Which is probably part of the CS majors problem with 
math.

jeff "in sunny downtown Rochester"(or something like that)
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