Discrete Math

Official Description

Discrete Mathematics (17-215)
An introduction to discrete models; topics include sets, symoblic logic, relations combinatorics, mathematical induction, probability, vectors and matrices, and graph theory.

Overview

Theoretically useful for theoretical computer science majors.

What actually happens

You spend about three or four weeks developing a cursory knowledge of symbolic logic. Or rather, your class does as you wisely go get lunch instead because you had learned it all in a week in sixth grade, and moved on to more advanced logic. The rest of the semester follows about the same pattern, learn something simple in a ridiculous amount of time, while you eat lunch and actually learn it all in a weekend.

The supposed topics to be covered are listed above, but you don't even get to most of them, and when you do it's a pathetic introduction. If you have any choice in the matter, don't sign up for this class. Really, check out MathWorld instead.