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DeathByMonkeys
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States742 Posts
February 23 2009 21:46 GMT
#1
So a couple weeks ago I got accepted to my first choice school... U of M. I got accepted to their College of Engineering (#9 in the country) Computer Science department. The first thing I was wondering was does anyone know what languages they'll be teaching, I know a lot of people on TL are majoring in CS, so even if you're not attending U of M which languages does your class primarily use? I wanted to get a little head start and hit the ground running. Last year I learned the basics of python, so this summer I was just looking for a language I could start to learn. So whatcha think?

Another thing is, is anyone here currently attending/will be attending U of M? I wanna have some people I can get together with and play some SC next fall.

**
KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14911 Posts
February 23 2009 21:49 GMT
#2
Congrats man, no idea about CS tho
AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
February 23 2009 21:50 GMT
#3
What I would recommend is going to the school's course requirements site for computer science, then googling the course numbers (say you see CSE 101... do something like "University of Mighigan CSE 101") and you can take a look at past sessions of the course and syllabi, which will tell you the content of the course, and you may be able to see some lecture slides too. The most likely thing they'll start you off with is either python or java.

I applied to their PhD program, still waiting on their response. Congrats on your admission :D

allowicious
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States972 Posts
February 23 2009 22:02 GMT
#4
congrats man!

I got accepted to U of M also back in December

I don't know much about their CS program, but you should try what AcrossFiveJulys said and check past syllabi to see an outline of the courses.
lalalalala~~~
Pawsom
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States928 Posts
February 23 2009 22:15 GMT
#5
At U of M you're first few programming classes will be entirely in C++. If you're comfortable with another language most proffessors wont care as long as theres a free compiler for it available. At the 300+ level you're welcome to use any language you want most of the time, but C++ and Java are almost the only thing present until you start taking specific classes designed to compare different languages.
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
February 23 2009 22:34 GMT
#6
The only things they're teaching in first year comp sci courses are C++ and java.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-24 00:11:25
February 24 2009 00:11 GMT
#7
You should hope for C++ instead of Java.



edit: congrats
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
February 24 2009 00:56 GMT
#8
Congrats, it must feel so good getting in.
imDerek
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1944 Posts
February 24 2009 01:03 GMT
#9
for intro courses my school uses Java

some other schools also use python, c++, scheme
Least favorite progamers: Leta, Zero, Mind, Shine, free, really <-- newly added
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9109 Posts
February 24 2009 01:11 GMT
#10
Nice, congrats! I'm planning to start studying engineering next year too but probably mechanical.
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
February 24 2009 03:56 GMT
#11
Hey my friend got into UMich, it sounds like a great school.
torehan7
Profile Joined August 2009
12 Posts
August 15 2009 06:13 GMT
#12
hey man, im also going for Univeristy of Michigan EECS, probably be choosing computer science as my major.
Im going into ENGR 151 and from the course description i see that the main language that they use would be C++.
btw, do you play SC?
tonight
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States11130 Posts
August 15 2009 06:33 GMT
#13
nice bump, guy
if I come without a thing, then I come with all I need @tonightsend
Funnytoss
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Taiwan1471 Posts
August 15 2009 09:17 GMT
#14
FELLOW University of Michigan TL'ers!

Excellent. Awesome bump yo.
AIV_Funnytoss and sGs.Funnytoss on iCCup
torehan7
Profile Joined August 2009
12 Posts
August 15 2009 17:22 GMT
#15
So is anyone thinking about getting UMich to join the CSL?
I know that last year UC Berkeley won.
petzergling
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
538 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-15 18:56:24
August 15 2009 18:53 GMT
#16
On February 24 2009 06:46 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
So a couple weeks ago I got accepted to my first choice school... U of M. I got accepted to their College of Engineering (#9 in the country) Computer Science department. The first thing I was wondering was does anyone know what languages they'll be teaching, I know a lot of people on TL are majoring in CS, so even if you're not attending U of M which languages does your class primarily use? I wanted to get a little head start and hit the ground running. Last year I learned the basics of python, so this summer I was just looking for a language I could start to learn. So whatcha think?

Another thing is, is anyone here currently attending/will be attending U of M? I wanna have some people I can get together with and play some SC next fall.


yo, I am also a computer science major in michigan. Are you attenting Uo M AA or UofM Flint? AA is a much nicer campus(and smash center of the midwest) but I am going to school in kettering which is located in flint so no SC in AA.

Kettering is a private university and not run by Michigan so the standards could be totally different, but the main CS line of courses uses Java. If you are planning to go into the computer science line of work I recommend 3 areas of study

Java
C# / C++
HTML(or whatever web based shit you want to use)


During highschool I was dual enrolled and took a class in python but besides that never had any exposure to other programing languages. CS101 in freshman year of college was extremely similar and after a week or so I was already carrying friends and hot asian lab partners through the course. If you just read up on python or java and have a general grasp of how programming works I'm sure you will do fine. If anything I would worry about brushing up on your general ed shit for your first couple years of courses. Freshman year is almost always the hardest and if you just spend the week before you go back trying to remember all the old highschool shit in Chem, Physics, Calc, etc you will be good to go.

Don't be nervous or worried about everyone that is a CS major already being a huge nerd and knowing a ton about programming. Of course there will be the 10-20% meganerds who can complete the whole terms coursework in one day but atleast half of the class will be fresh to programming so if you arent a complete moron you should be fine.

Add me on msn if you have any other questions about that shit or if you are gonna be around UofM Flint we could SC it up

diddykong13@hotmail.com - MSN
josh7460 - AIM

edit: I think someone already recommended this but you can look up online (or ask people already through the class) what book you need and get ahold of it before you start class. Only nerds do that though

edit2: lol typed wall of text on bumped post
fail




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nubster
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States49 Posts
August 15 2009 20:11 GMT
#17
Hey,

I'm a sophomore CS major at U Michigan-AA too.

For first year students they teach C++ in engr101, and continue teaching C++ in eecs280 (I haven't gotten farther than that)

By the way, where are you living for fall semester? Maybe we could get together and play some SC.
I'm on Bursley this year.
University of Michigan Starcraft Team
AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-19 15:55:16
August 19 2009 15:52 GMT
#18
I'm going to be a graduate student at UM starting this autumn! And I'm going to be TAing EECS 280 so maybe some of you new students will be in my section lol
Killy
Profile Joined September 2008
United States39 Posts
August 19 2009 15:59 GMT
#19
I'm less than an hour from AA.

I'd be down for a LAN! WOOT!
Money is your army, every dollar is a soldier
Funnytoss
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Taiwan1471 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-20 14:36:17
August 20 2009 14:29 GMT
#20
I'm living near the Hill - some buddies and I often get together and play SC via iCCup at the Fishbowl or any other computer lab where it works. I've been considering starting a UM team for CSL but haven't found enough consistent players. Maybe now it's possible though? Last year I met two guys who were pretty good at 2v2, but given that CSL requires members to be *current* students, I don't think they can play anymore. Should be up for casual LAN games, though.

I can't recall how many playing members you need to assemble a CSL team - anyone here actually play SC?

AIM - speedyvf33
MSN - redbearfa@hotmail.com

Nubster, took you long enough to register on TL ^_^
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