09-01-2022, 09:31 AM
(09-01-2022, 09:04 AM)bluebooger Wrote: the real killer per-requisite is #4
The minimum prerequisite background for admission to the MS program consists of:
- Languages: Deep working knowledge of C and familiarity with object-oriented concepts and work with some object-oriented language such as Java or C++.
- Data structures and mathematics: Understanding and working knowledge of pointers, lists, stacks, queues, trees, arrays and recursion; induction, order of magnitude growth, probability and elementary combinatorics, set notation.
- Working familiarity with windows and Unix.
- Knowledge of assembly language (e.g. Intel or Motorola) sufficient to understand self-modifying code.
They also require high GRE math score:
"Strong GRE Quantitative and Analytical scores. (Typical acceptable scores are near 160 for the quantitative section or 4.0 or better on the new Analytical Writing section.) "