I noticed a few days ago (through The Underdogs site no less) that LucasArts is still selling many of their classic games here.
Stuff like Maniac Mansion, Monkey's Island, Battle Hawks 1942. Most of them are in collections. Of course a lot of them are only offered on 3.5" floppys, so if you really want an 'archive' you still have burn it to CD.
it can be important to know which college the CS department is associated with. If it is with engineering and all you want to do is program, you're probably going to end up with a bunch of classes you don't want to take.
Another thing that I find interesting is that no one has mentioned changing/transferring schools if they don't feel like they're getting the type of courses, instructors, or environment that they want.
I started out at one university and found the CS department a little to closely tied to the engineering department for my taste (no thanks, no 'engineering economy' or 'engineering statics' for me!) along with other problems (they had CS under grads teaching the freshman labs the semester after they had finished the intro class!) So after spending 2 years getting a bunch of reqs out of the way I transferred to a different school where I've been the past 4 years (don't do the math =). The difference is night and day.
So unless its just an excuse to give up, you really might want to look into CS departments at other universities. They can be REALLY different.
for what its worth... I think the URL for the class in question is here http://richweb.seas.smu.edu/Schools/Houston/h_ne ttech.htm From what I can tell the description of the prereq 'entrance exam' is here http://richweb.seas.smu.edu/Schools/examinfo.htm
it says
"...designed to ensure that students starting this technical curriculum have the necessary prequesite skills and can navigate effectively in a DOS and Windows environment. The exam consists of 25 questions on DOS and 25 questions on Windows."
Sure sounds like making sure you can use your mouse type stuff.
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I noticed a few days ago (through The Underdogs site no less) that LucasArts is still selling many of their classic games here. Stuff like Maniac Mansion, Monkey's Island, Battle Hawks 1942. Most of them are in collections. Of course a lot of them are only offered on 3.5" floppys, so if you really want an 'archive' you still have burn it to CD.
it can be important to know which college the CS department is associated with. If it is with engineering and all you want to do is program, you're probably going to end up with a bunch of classes you don't want to take.
Another thing that I find interesting is that no one has mentioned changing/transferring schools if they don't feel like they're getting the type of courses, instructors, or environment that they want.
I started out at one university and found the CS department a little to closely tied to the engineering department for my taste (no thanks, no 'engineering economy' or 'engineering statics' for me!) along with other problems (they had CS under grads teaching the freshman labs the semester after they had finished the intro class!) So after spending 2 years getting a bunch of reqs out of the way I transferred to a different school where I've been the past 4 years (don't do the math =). The difference is night and day.
So unless its just an excuse to give up, you really might want to look into CS departments at other universities. They can be REALLY different.
for what its worth...e ttech.htm
I think the URL for the class in question is here
http://richweb.seas.smu.edu/Schools/Houston/h_n
From what I can tell the description of the prereq 'entrance exam' is here http://richweb.seas.smu.edu/Schools/examinfo.htm
it says
"...designed to ensure that students starting this technical curriculum have the necessary prequesite skills and can navigate effectively in a DOS and Windows environment. The exam consists of 25 questions on DOS and 25 questions on Windows."
Sure sounds like making sure you can use your mouse type stuff.