computer science at monash

[helpmeplzzzz]

i was looking through the core units in monash comp sci and there's one called MAT1841 - Continuous mathematics for computer science. i really hated methods and the stuff covered in this unit seems like a continuation of methods, so do you have to be good at/interested in mathematics to do computer science? should i just change to a bachelor of IT instead?

[Aaron]

Maths is featured in all IT courses. You can't escape it and realistically to succeed in the discipline/career, you have to be at least competent.

In saying that, the level of maths varies between any IT and Computer Science course. In IT, realistically the only maths needed is discrete maths which covers a lot of concepts seen in Further Maths (e.g. networks, recurrence relations, matrices). In Computer Science, that's where calculus, linear alg etc. is seen (hence why there's a requirement of methods for majority of CS courses).

So if you want less math, IT would probably be the better course. But in a general sense, it is featured in both degrees in some way (CS more intense). I would advise you to pick either IT or CS based on the opportunities it offers (whilst most consider these two to be very similar, they are far from it), rather than the level of math.