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Right now I'm taking a theoretical computer science class (the Theory of Computation), and on Wednesday I have a test on mathematical induction. I don't know anything about mathematical induction.
You can't walk across the SU campus without tripping over someone who's failed this course. Hyperboles aside, it really isn't hard to find a CS major who has had to take it twice. I actually know of a guy who had to take two (yeah, two) more years of college because of failing this class three times.
The subject matter is difficult, yeah, but I really think the reason it's such a fucker of a class has nothing to do with that; it's the book. The book is really badly written. It's overly complicated, the examples are too difficult (However, there are some "more challenging problems" for those who find the normal unsolvable homework elementary. How nice.), and each topic is covered way too quickly. Honestly, Simulacra and Simulation is easier reading. I find the link above to explain the concept much better. It just seems like there's something fundamentally wrong with having to go to the internet to cover class topics because of the book's inadequacy.
"Travis, why did you buy the book, then?"
Good question.
CSCI 235 (why this is a 200-level course is another rant in and of itself) is a required course. One guy teaches it. He wrote the book.
Just once, can I get through a semeseter without spending the second half of it feeling like a retard?
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