Cal Poly SLO or UC Davis for CS

[Executor]

Which has a better Computer Science Program. I would like to become a game programmer. If you have any personal experience with either college please post Thanks.

 

[HappyPuppy]

I hear UC Davis has a better party program. It's located closer to the marijuana fields of The Great Northwest. Bindles, baggies and kilos are far cheaper when bought wholesale and transported in your personal vehicle. Back at the dorm you can break it down an sell it for a profit to your fellow students who will be eternallyl grateful to you. You will become known as "The Man". The chicks will flock to you, just begging to hop into your motorized, king size bed.

Sorry, got off onto a tangent, again.

 

[AreaCode707]

UCDer here (I will NOT be called an Aggie). Cal Poly is more of a 'name' school, is it not? I really don't know about the CS programs of either, other than that I meet more biowhatnot majors here than CS.

 

[dyqith]

hey i go to UCD, but I am in the Computer Science & Engineering program..
I can say that it is quite interesting...

If you come here, try to take Sean Davis for ECS110 and maybe even ecs30 and ecs40.
those are the first 3 major programming classes and Sean's one of the best lecturers around.

From what i can tell, we don't do much with windows programming and directx etc...
We get down to UNIX, LINUX, C/C++, java, lisp, prolog, etc... etc..
There are 3 graphics classes but I haven't taken them so I don't know much of what they teach.

I find that our school teach mostly concepts with some programming to backup.
We don't do any windows programming as far as i can tell.

Mostly, the classes that might pertain to game programming is the first 3 programming classes (for language specifics), the AI class, maybe networks ?, probably software engineering and the 3 graphics class

hope this helps,
o and you can try www.cs.ucdavis.edu to see the course descrips and what not...

 

[notfred]

<< UCDer here (I will NOT be called an Aggie). Cal Poly is more of a 'name' school, is it not? I really don't know about the CS programs of either, other than that I meet more biowhatnot majors here than CS. >>



"The Aggies" is a pretty stupid mascot. You may have the better school, but you have to admit that a Hornet is a way cooler mascot

 

[Executor]

<< "The Aggies" is a pretty stupid mascot. You may have the better school, but you have to admit that a Hornet is a way cooler mascot >>



Is Davis really considered a better school? I've been hearing that the two are about equal, but Davis seems to offer more courses.
Oh and is Davis a cool campus? I took a tour, but I can't really judge the campus life from that. Are the people generally pretty cool and fun?

 

[KEV1N]

I'm a CS major at UCD. I am also a veteran of Sean Davis, ECS 30, 40, and 110. Very rigorous. At the time I HATED HIM for putting us in the lab for sometimes twelve hours a day, 5 days a week. But now I consider myself a pro at C++ and all my upper division classes that had anything to do with actual coding, I breezed through.

On another note, a degree from a UC holds a lot of value. I would consider coming to Davis.

 

[KEV1N]

Oh woops. I've taken the Networks and the Software Engineering class. Both are more business application oriented; we made a functional e-commerce site for software engineering (ECS 160). The networks class (ECS 152A) is nitty gritty crap such as signal processing and internet protocol concepts. The graphics classes, however, are Open GL focused and that may be your cup of tea.

 

[Executor]

Does anyone here go to Cal Poly?

 

[notfred]

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<< "The Aggies" is a pretty stupid mascot. You may have the better school, but you have to admit that a Hornet is a way cooler mascot >>



Is Davis really considered a better school? I've been hearing that the two are about equal, but Davis seems to offer more courses.
Oh and is Davis a cool campus? I took a tour, but I can't really judge the campus life from that. Are the people generally pretty cool and fun? >>



I don't go to Cal Poly, I go to CSU Sacramento.... related only to Davis because they're near each other

 

[LaBang]

i like davis. mostly everyone is nice and friendly.