macm 101 has no programming at all. Many regard it as a difficult course though. I took it with wiese, he was pretty good.
cmpt 150 as I remember it only had a small assembly programming section. The rest of it is mostly circuit diagrams. So having no programming experience shouldn't be a huge hindrance. I haven't taken it with that prof though so I suppose it could be a little different. I found this course to actually be more interesting than I had expected. It is also kind of in the middle in terms of difficulty, not easy, but not really hard either.
For 150 I had HarinderKhangura. If you are taking all of your other courses out in burnaby you are probably better off just staying there. I wouldn't say wiese's class is so easy it is worth going far out of your way for.
I could switch up my courses to take them all in surrey. Only problem I have with Bart is that he's a notorious hard marker/teacher, so I wouldn't want to take them unless there's a curve to make the average a C+ ish. I hear kay wiese is also not scaled and quite a bit of people will fail even with kay wiese?
Well it is a difficult course. People are bound to fail regardless who they take it with. Also, like all cmpt and macm courses, macm 101 is not marked on a curve. Occasionally profs will scale the grade ranges a little bit, but I wouldn't expect them to move much more than about 5%.
I see in the outlines it mentions both offerings having two midterms. When I took it with Wiese (a few years ago mind you) there was only one midterm. It was worth 40% though. Wiese also let us have a cheat sheet for the exams, not sure if bart allows that or not.
Yeah it would be. There were one or two kids in my 150 class taking it as an elective. It is rare though. Im not really sure why someone not in computing would take it, unless they were really interested in logic circuits.
You don't actually build any physical circuits. You learn how to draw them first and then are introduced to software that can simulate them. And remember these are logic circuits. So its AND and OR gates and stuff, not resistors, batteries, and switches.
thanks ryan you've been very helpful. My only fear in macm101 which I need to transfer into computer science with, is that I'll fail as I know some people who have failed in Kay Wiese's class before. Do you recall what the average was for that class?
The average on out midterm was 79%. I'm not sure what the average on the final was, those grades weren't released. It was harder than the midterm, but I imagine the average still fell within the 60's
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That was 4-5 years ago and with a not very good sessional instructor though