{"id":1386,"date":"2014-05-07T16:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2014-05-07T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:55:52","slug":"computer-science-electives-where-do-those-theory-classes-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/computer-science-electives-where-do-those-theory-classes-pay-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science Electives &#8211; Where do those theory classes pay off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I finished my undergrad degree, I regretted taking <a href=\"http:\/\/uwcourseplanner.com\/calendar\/CS\/467\/\">CS 467<\/a>. I spent about 80% of my coursework time on that class. Now that I see the same notation and set theory used in a statistics textbook I am reading, I would say the course was totally worth it. It would have helped if I had taken the assignments lightly, since the assignment questions were always a puzzle to students. The time would have been better spent working through examples in the textbook. Looking back at my elective courses, I am glad I didn&#8217;t take a CS elective that was mostly programming, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/uwcourseplanner.com\/calendar\/CS\/349\/\">CS 349<\/a>. Classes like <a href=\"http:\/\/uwcourseplanner.com\/calendar\/CS\/360\/\">CS 360<\/a> enhance math skills which are helpful in graduate studies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I finished my undergrad degree, I regretted taking CS 467. I spent about 80% of my coursework time on that class. Now that I see the same notation and set theory used in a statistics textbook I am reading, I would say the course was totally worth it. It would have helped if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","tag-cs-467"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuguangzhang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}