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u/alekzia · 2 pointsr/UofT

Of these, I've only taken SMC229, and I took it in Spring 2014. If you do the reading, you'll understand the content and be fine for the midterm test and possibly even the essay. If Jenna Sunkenberg is teaching it, she is a very caring and intelligent instructor. If you express any challenges you have to her (via email or during her office hours), she will help you to understand the content better. She is also open to creative submissions of final assignments, if that isn't too intimidating.

The weekly reading doesn't tend to be long, but it can be dense and full of terms you haven't seen before. Read them before class and make notes with your questions. Most of your questions will be resolved during lecture. The year I took it, the textbook wasn't terribly expensive.

If you're on a waitlist, you might not get off of it easily, since it's a mandatory course for a Book and Media Studies major or minor. The program has grown a lot in the last years and the courses aren't big enough to accommodate the students who are interested. Generally the people who take the class are friendly and could be interested in doing things like studying together. There will be a few moments in lecture where you'll have to talk to other people about ideas you had while reading.

u/TheStudyOf_Wumbo · 8 pointsr/UofT

CSC265 should only be reserved for people who truly love math. Not for people who like math and enjoy it, but the people who sit up at night reading math textbooks for fun and doing Spivak because it feels good. I took it because I wanted to be elite at data structures. I ended up getting an offer at Google but 265 did not prepare me for interviews in the way that I thought (what I'm trying to say is my offer at Google was not because of 265).

You will be doing purely math. A lot of the topics are covered in more depth, and you have to read chapters on your own.

The questions I got were absolutely insane and had me working unbelievably hard. I'd put in almost 25-30 hours a week for the course. I was able to get 90's on the assignments (but one of them was downright impossible).

There's a lot of really smart math geniuses who take the class so if you're a "normie" or even just "smart", you will feel like an idiot. People would come to class and clearly had read way ahead, so the TA would blaze forward since you'd feel like an idiot going "no I don't get this" constantly. You'd have to spend a ton of time at home playing catch up. All my practical knowledge of data structures wasn't too useful, but attempting Faith's homework prior to doing the course helped me the most. If anything, I think reading TAOCP is probably the best preparation, but it's probably not even feasible for anyone to do that before this class because it probably takes years to properly read that.

One of the questions we got was some probability question that I literally could not get after 30 hours of trying. It was impossible for me. The answer ended up being a published paper, so you get the question then you pretty much could have published the paper if you did this question 30 years ago. When I practiced on Faith's assignments for 265, there was not a question that I found that insane to the point where I couldn't get it.

This class should only be taken IMO if you want to do algorithm research or were bored out of your mind in CSC236/CSC240. I don't know if this course is physically possible if you do it with MAT257 and 3 other courses, but I'm sure some genius would prove me wrong. There is no physical way you could do 5 courses with one of them being CSC265 and work on side projects to prepare for PEY unless you are really good.

Also it's the first class I ever took where the average was so shit for the midterm that one of the questions got turned into a bonus question right after the midterm (usually they just shift people up at the end, so doing it after a midterm tells you something).

Maybe people who did MAT157 can handle such things, I'm not sure. It was the most stressful semester I ever did. What I learned was amazing, but it will definitely fade in time because I will probably never use that knowledge since I don't intend on going to graduate school.

I'd further only recommend that class to people who are sadistic enough to enjoy such hard questions where you are literally freaking out 2 days before it's due because in 12 days you still weren't able to find the solution and kept finding holes in the problem. How I managed to get 90's on the assignment when the class average was between 65-72 is beyond me.

Lastly, this course feels much different from other courses cause the math at times isn't hard, it's just proving some discrete property tends to be nuts. However, the part I found really hard might actually be better off with people having real analysis since it was probability and real numbers which I'm not as good at.

tl;dr: If you get through it, you will be a Navy SEAL for CS. If you are asking "is the workload too much" when deciding to take this course, you should not take this course.

EDIT: I should also say if you're a CS genius then maybe the workload is normal.

u/JRainsFromAbove · 6 pointsr/UofT

157 is very different from most other first year university courses. The lectures are helpful because they illustrate the ideas, but they don't get you familiar with any particular type of problem or prepare you for the tests/exams. Also, for most first year math/science courses, textbooks are really just there to provide you practice questions. It's different for MAT157. You need to actually read it, from the first page to the last, understanding every single line of it. It's a tough book, but also an amazing one. I think you will enjoy it if you do like math.

https://www.amazon.ca/Calculus-Michael-Spivak/dp/0521867444

You have 4 months before September. Even 10 mins/day of work will be enough for you to finish this book prior to the course starts. Good luck.

u/Cyg_X-1 · 2 pointsr/UofT

High school performance has very, very little to do with how prepared you are for MAT157. In fact you could probably argue that no high school preparation is even needed since the course starts everything from scratch: you'll start with the basic properties of numbers, formally construct the Real Numbers, and work your way up to infinite series - the whole course is very self-contained.

SAT/AP math is gonna be different by a long shot because MAT157 is a course emphasizing proofs - there's hardly any "number crunching" anymore. If you do not have any experience with proofs (perhaps through math contests and stuff like that) then I strongly recommend taking MAT138 (if Prof. Alfonso Gracia-Saz is teaching, this will be a really great class). While you can certainly pull off a good MAT157 performance without MAT138 (I only took MAT138 in the Winter), it's going to be a steep learning curve, and trust me, you want to be very comfortable with proofs involving sets before tackling Dedekind cuts.

(Edit: As an alternative to MAT138, you could work through Galovich's An introduction to proofs and problem-solving during the summer. It's the MAT138 textbook.)

u/5hredder · 1 pointr/UofT

Hey,

ECE212.


ECE241 - You learn C++ and OOP fundamentals in this course. We didn't have a textbook when I took it. Just online notes.

ECE241 - Stephen Brown is a prof at UofT and a great lecturer. I also still have this book if you are interested in buying from me!

ECE216 - Might still have this book if you're interested.

ECE221 - Professor Stickle probably will teach this course. Great lecturer but his tests/exams are notoriously hard.

ECE243 - Did not have a textbook when I took the course. Prof. Moshovos provided course notes online.

ECE297 - No textbook for this course. It's like a mini design project that lasts all semester where you have to build a concurrency based storage server in a team of 3. Picking a good team of programmers and technical writers is imperative.

Protip: Next time check TUSBE for textbook names and buying second-hand textbooks.

PS: Congrats on getting through 1st year, 2nd year will be tough.

u/ManHuman · 1 pointr/UofT

I would highly advise going with the 31/37 route. As both of the above courses are proof based, they will be play an integral role in upper year courses. Please be warned that they are extremely challenging but worthwhile courses. I would highly recommend you start preparing for the above two courses. For A37, I would suggest starting with Spivak:

https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/0914098918

u/darkspyder4 · 1 pointr/UofT

You'll need to have some experience coding a few hundred lines and also have experience using a debugger. You'll also be expected to do readings which I highly recommend and the concepts are not that trivial; you'll need to wrap your head around concepts in 369 until it finally clicks. Implementing them in C isn't too bad, make good use of office hours and tutorials. Worst case scenario just get a good partner.

here's the textbook I was assigned, its a good read too: https://www.amazon.ca/Modern-Operating-Systems-Andrew-Tanenbaum/dp/013359162X

u/terribleusername · 1 pointr/UofT

If you're looking for a book on library research, I can recommend The Oxford Guide to Library Research, which is a comprehensive guide to forming a research question, and the tools you need to execute your search.

u/Jealous_Technician · 1 pointr/UofT

Why don’t you pick up a Bluetooth keyboard off Amazon?

this one seems like a good deal but at that price you should be able to find a decent mechanical one

u/winged_crocodile · 2 pointsr/UofT

I don't think you have to worry too much about this course beforehand, they will teach all the basics. The AP bio I did in highschool actually didn't do much bio120-related material anyway (it was almost exclusively bio130)

However, if you really want to do some readings beforehand, Why Evolution is True is certainly a good starting point, especially since you'll have to read it eventually for the course, but it only covers the evolution half of the course. The Economy of Nature by Ricklefs is the recommended (but no longer required) reading for the ecology half. Note that all the required readings for the ecology section (some of which are sourced from the aformentioned book) will be provided during the course

u/Spacey__ · 3 pointsr/UofT

Yea we used some of the questions from that in the lectures. If you really want answers just work on similar problems from last year's textbook (pdf on libgen too). Or even from the year before which still has recommended exercises.

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It's really not good to be reliant on the answers though.

u/Yarjka · 3 pointsr/UofT

I took the course with absolutely no background in French and the majority of the students also didn't have any background in French. I found the class to be very easy, but that might not be true for everyone. If you're worried about it, you could purchase a copy of the textbook in advance and go through it. Like I said, though, it's pass or fail, so you don't need to excel but just get by. You'll have plenty of time to enhance your French reading abilities when (and if) you need them.