I have been considering doing the MSCS program but unsure if it’s a right fit for me.
My foundations in undergrad were Film/TV Production but my industry(TV) is slowly moving towards virtualization of workflows.
Has anyone done this program to advance their career without the undergrad experience of CS? Is it an impossible reach to go for?
Thank you for the help 😁 I appreciate it!
I built a small tool to estimate how long CU Boulder MSDS courses actually take, and I would appreciate feedback from anyone who wants to try it or just roast the approach.
What it does:
• Predicts calendar days for a target course based on anchor courses you have already finished
• Uses the crowdsourced MSDS review sheet data with a Bayesian update (it pulls data from the google sheets from the highlighted post from this subreddit)
• Adjusts for focus ratio, ADHD profile, and self-rated math/coding/writing skills
• Returns uncertainty intervals instead of single number guesses
How it works:
It converts your anchor course days and hours per week into total study hours, compares that against the posterior hour distribution for each target course (updated from student reviews), and transfers your pace via topic similarity.
Full derivation is in MODEL.md if you care about the math. Try it or just read the code
Repo: https://github.com/utsapoddar/msds-time-estimator
There is a nontechnical guide if you do not want to touch Python, plus a notebook version if you prefer that.
How you can help:
Caveats:
Some courses still fall back to Coursera published hours.
Focus ratio adjustments are heuristic constants, not fitted. No cross validation yet. This is a "help me make it less wrong" project.
Let me know what you think.
Ps. It currently only works for MSDS for now but since I built it modular, it can be changed to any other degree using the skeleton.
Done 9 for-credit courses in the MS-CS program, but I'm starting to think about switching to the ECE degree as I prefer the lower level and more hardware side of things. Seems like I can get those credits transferred over from asking the course staff, but just wondering if anyone has experience in the ECE program.
On the other hand I feel like I can finish the CS quicker with better grades and then just do the extra embedded/power courses on the side after. I also feel like I would have a bit more time to do side projects with the CS degree.
Currently a webdev with a Mechanical Engineering Bachelors, but would like to move towards the embedded/robotics/avionics side of things.
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Is it worth it to pursue PhD in CS online from MSU?
VA will pay for phd and I will keep my job too.
The course above's description on the CUB's website (CSCA 5403: Basic Ideas in Computing Security | Computer Science | University of Colorado Boulder) doesn't match the Coursera one (Basic Ideas in Computing Security | Coursera). One states Java is required and suggests a tutorial while the other says no programming background is required.
Can anyone who has taken it confirm which of the two is correct?
On the website, it mentions that the cert can count towards the MSCS but doesn't mention MSAI which seems odd to me.
Hi, I’m a bit lost in the weeds here. I read that you can enroll in non-credit before paying the for-credit amount to wrap up a particular course. Now,
Since Coursera doesn’t let you audit courses anymore, are you guys paying for the full coursera membership to access the non-credit version of all classes at once? Or are you paying the $49/mo per course every time?
If I start paying for a Coursera subscription through my personal account to access non-credit courses, would that somehow clash with the coursera account you create through CU?
If I start the non-credit version of a course and then upgrade to for-credit when I’m ready, do I have 8 weeks from the start of non-credit or the date of upgrade to finish out the extra stuff?
I know these things get asked a lot, but I looked through the history and couldn’t find anything that directly answered these questions.
Any help is appreciated!