n00binio Wrote:
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> turkey_machine schrieb:
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> > Maths in the first year of uni basically
> consists
> > of getting everybody up to the same standard,
> so
> > the better you do at A-level, the better
> prepared
> > you will be. I was so-well prepared I got to
> sit
> > out the first half-year of maths classes.
> >
> > First-year uni maths is A-level stuff, algebra,
> > trig, matrices, the usual fare. If you're up to
> > speed on that you'll be fine I reckon.
>
> were these special maths lectures for your subject
> or the standard lectures for the people who do
> just maths?
It's most likely that the first year computing courses are pretty much the same depending on the uni you go to, so not "special" if ya like, but certainly not too diverse.
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