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[chhotii]

I am inclined at this point to take just Data Structures. It meets on Tuesdays. I don't work on Tuesdays, Sophia doesn't have preschool on Tuesdays, so there's no rushing back from anywhere to get Sophia squared away before going to class. Taking a Wednesday class would mean one of these options:

1) driving to Boston early morning with the kid, working a part day, picking up the kid from preschool right after nap time, right when traffic north from Boston starts getting heavy and driving home, disentangling myself from kid and driving back to Boston, taking class until late and then driving home. Which would be quite tiring. Or...

2) Dropping preschool down to 2 days a week (just Monday and Friday), and then on Wednesday, sometimes trying to foist the kid off to Mom a few hours early to get to the office and do a couple of hours of work done before class, if there's anything pressing at the office.

I kinda like option 2, except that if I dropped the Wednesday, we might not get it back. Preschool slots are in high demand, especially for Wednesdays. Losing Wednesday preschool for the rest of Sophia's preschool career would be a high price to pay.

Hmm, here's a sneaky trick... If you register for a Met class, you can then take a regular B.U. class, and those are in the day, of course. (At least this was true 5 years ago. Maybe they noticed and closed this loophole.) Maybe the Analysis of Algorithms is also offered during the day while Sophia is in preschool just a mile away. Wouldn't that be convenient.

But, after sleeping on it, I realized I shouldn't fret over whether the Data Structures class at B.U. Met is exactly equivalent to the Data Structures class at Harvard Extension. There just has to be some requirement because kids come out of CSCI E-50 not knowing what a linked list is. I discovered this when I was TF for the Discrete Math class, which has programming assignments. Damn, I said, don't they teach you kids anything these days?

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[istemi.livejournal.com]

DIdn't have a chance to sit down with your last post.

If you're just satisfying a prereq, take Data Structures. It's not hard, especially if you already understand linked lists and other structures like that. No shame in taking an easy class, and after Biochem you've earned it.

If you're looking for challenge and enrichment, go with algorithms.

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I could deal with challenge and enrichment on a Wednesday at this point. I could do challenge and enrichment on a Tuesday or Thursday, sure. But, eventually, Sophia's schedule will change (going to kindergarden 2 years from now at the worst) and then probably I'll be up for challenge and enrichment on Mondays, Wednesdays, and/or Fridays.

[radioactiverich.livejournal.com]

If you're just trying to satisfy some prerequisite class, I would suggest just skip the prerequisite and take the interesting class. I did that for all my classes at BU so far and I am none the poorer for it.