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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

basically how it feel when a professor requires u comment every single line of code u write to explain it. I know people tend to drop out of real engineering to do programing but an entire 4 years of this bullshit as opposed to just a couple classes sounds way worse than calc 3 or differential equations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The only problem with courses like calc 3 and differential equations (in my experience, as a mathematician) is that they are cheating somewhat. By cheating I mean relying on inadequate, flawed or entirely omitted proofs. How can the students truly understand something if they are not presented the whole story (or at least reference)?

The good thing about these courses are that there are usually no shortage of relevant exercises!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

u could be right calc 3 was alright, pretty fun actually but differential equations i still dont get at all, maybe i should try learn it on my own now with more time and no pressure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I detested differential equations. However, that was more due to how it was presented than the underlying, surprisingly, beautiful math.