The Rebertian Times » broken http://blog.rebertia.com All my thoughts that are fit to blog. Which mostly consists of stuff about programming. Mon, 09 May 2011 20:44:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 F before D, except after C http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/04/04/f-before-d-except-after-c/ http://blog.rebertia.com/2009/04/04/f-before-d-except-after-c/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:25:07 +0000 Chris Rebert http://blog.rebertia.com/?p=129 A public service announcement to anyone taking the Math 20 series at UCSD:

I would strongly advise you to take Math 20F (Linear Algebra) before Math 20D (Differential Equations), despite how that seems alphabetically out of order. Why? Because a few classes into 20D last quarter, my Prof basically said that the current order is weird (she has taught both courses) because 20D uses matrices a lot, yet there isn’t enough time to go over them in detail in 20D, so you basically have to hope learning matrices in a rushed fashion mostly from the book will work for you (it didn’t work well enough for me and definitely affected my grade). And now that I am taking 20F, I can further corroborate this since so far (and looking a bit ahead in the textbook), 20F seems like it could be summarized as “Matrices 101″.

So, save yourself a lot of pain and:

Take 20F before 20D!

If you have any questions, feel free to use the Comments section.

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