I'm very excited to be writing my first post on such a platform as dev.io is 🚀. Since I started my degree in computer science in Barcelona, I'd always been thinking about how would be the degree in other countries in terms of the contents we have studied. So what about open a post for listening to people's opinions.
The degrees in Spain are four years (in theory, I will explain my case in another post) with sixty "credits" per year.
Let's talk about the first year. We had a total of fifteen subjects of which seven are pure maths and physics and the others are related to programming and computer basics. For making you an idea of the dramatic situation about the first year, we get into the university four/five groups of seventy people. The most important and hard requirement you have to achieve to continue studying is reaching out to thirty-two credits of the sixty in the first year, what it means more than half of the subjects, if not you are out of the university. The statistics say that each first-year more than half of the people who got in don't achieve that requirement.
In the second year, we do more maths algorithms and programming stuff but all related to maths, what I mean is that we don't learn as much of programming as we would like. We carry out a lot of maths theorems that we will never use as programmers.
To conclude I would like to know your experiences as a student, the similarities you have been through and how you feel after been finishing the degree.
Thanks for reading this post and we are in touch! 😀
Top comments (3)
In the US, I believe each college has slightly different requirements, but I can speak for my university.
I went to something called a liberal arts school, so we were required to take a few classes to become a well-rounded citizen (critical thinking, philosophy, theatre, economics). Additionally, for CS we had ~30+ credits we were required to take through a defined class schedule - meaning the classes and the credits for achieving a CS degree were laid out for you. You could chose two classes from the CS department you were interested in as well, that weren't part of the core requirements.
Many of us took more than those classes because there were opportunities to learn about other topics besides the core, like robotics or in depth networking, or machine learning.
Thanks for sharing! After visiting Barcelona, I would find it hard to be in a computer class - it was so beautiful there :D
WOW! sounds quite different!! Thanks for sharing your experience it's nice to hear from people who are so far from Spain!
You're welcome and indeed, it wasn't until I travelled that I realized just how wonderful different perspectives on life can be :)