5 Most Difficult Courses for Computer Science Undergraduate

Computer Science as a course is not easy to study for some people, because it requires a lot of calculations and programming, a person studying computer science or a graduate of computer science must be willing to adapt to change In technology because in computer science new programming languages and technologies are being discovered everyday and as a computer scientist you must be willing to adapt to these changes, that the reason why most people find computer science as a course difficult. What is trending today in computer science might become obsolete in the next 10 years. Computer Science as a course is also very interesting and wonderful, for me it was fun studying computer science because I get to discover new stuff and practicing them was the best part of it, creating new apps, website etc was fun. In our computer science department today, they are some courses that are more difficult than others, and according to resent findings, computer science students find these course difficult during their course of study. Here is a list of 5 most difficult courses for computer science undergraduate

1. COMPILER CONSTRUCTION: Compilers are software’s that are used to transform a computer code written in one programming language  (source language) into another computer language(the target language). Compilers construction deals with the ways compilers for programming languages are developed. Compiler construction is one of the most difficult course for most computer science undergraduate, it requires  a lot of calculations and analysis, student study stuffs like lexical analyzer, parser, semantics , right most derivations etc

2.DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHM: An algorithm is a step by step procedure to solving a problem i.e a sequence of steps to solve a problem. Algorithm design and analysis is one of the most difficult for CS Undergraduate. Student get to study stuffs like graph, complexity I algorithm, sporting methods etc

3. CRYPTOGRAPHY: Cryptography has to do with storing and transmitting data in a particular form, it involves creating codes that are generated or written these codes allows information to be kept in secret. With cryptography, data can be converted into a format that is unreadable for unauthorized user. Cryptography is not that hard form most CS Undergraduate but the problem is that security cannot be tested easily so most times only you notice your mistakes and that can only happen when someone hacks you. In cryptography, a small mistake could cost a company millions.

4 OPERATING SYSTEM: An operating system is a program responsible for managing and controlling the allocation and usage of the computer hardware and resources. Operating System is one of the hardest course to study in Cs especially the part that has to do with threading. Writing multithreaded code itself is difficult.

5.NUMERICAL ANALYSIS: According to Wikipedia.com Numerical Analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to general symbolic manipulations) or the problems of mathematical analysis (As distinguished from discrete mathematics). Numerical Analysis is one of the difficult courses for most computer science undergraduate, while to some it’s the most difficult courses, I remember back then in  school, numerical analysis used to be a pain in the neck for some of us, while for some it was the best course ever.

These are some of the most difficult courses for most computer science undergraduate. In a nutshell no course is actually difficult it all depends on the way it’s being taught and the lecturers taking the courses.