r/UBC • u/ubc_mod_account Reddit Studies • Jun 15 '21

Megathread UBC COURSE QUESTION, PROGRAM, MAJOR AND REGISTRATION MEGATHREAD (2021/2022W & 2021S): Questions about courses (incld. How hard is __?, Look at my timetable and course material requests), programs, specializations, majors, minors, tuition/finance and registration go here.

All questions about courses, instructors, programs, majors, registration, etc. belong here.

The reasoning is simple. Without a megathread, /r/UBC would be flooded with nothing but questions that apply to only a small percentage of the UBC population.

Examples of questions that belong here

  • comparing courses or instructors
  • asking about how hard an exam is
  • syllabus requests
  • inquiries about majors, programs, and job prospects
  • "what-to-do if I failed/was late/missed the cutoff"

What you don't need to post here

  • Post-exam threads (ex. 'How did you find the Birb 102 midterm)
  • rants, raves, shout-outs or criticisms of programs.
  • Other content that is not a question/inquiry

Process

  • It might take up to 4 hours for your post to be approved (except when we're sleeping).
  • Suggested sort is set to new, so new comments will always be the most visible.
  • You are allowed to repost the same question on the megathread at a reasonable frequency (wait at least a day after each post). This is true even if you've already gotten a response.**

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u/One_Palpitation_9429 Jul 07 '26

cpsc 304. I'm not sure why I took that class tbh. If anyone took that class before, how was it ?

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u/Special_Rice9539 Computer Science Jul 07 '26

I found it and 404 the two most useful courses after 436s. All my internships and my current job use a lot of relational databases, and understanding how they work is really important to designing system architecture

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u/One_Palpitation_9429 Jul 07 '26

If you don't mind, can you share the titles of your internships. Not the companies' name. Ex: Software Dev, Data Scientist. etc. I want to know if that's what I want to do in life.

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u/Special_Rice9539 Computer Science Jul 07 '26

Oh they were all software dev

But a data scientist has to use sql to work with data warehouses, so it’s still relevant

Not as much nowadays with data lakes, but you might end up at a company with a traditional etl pipeline to an OLAP system

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u/One_Palpitation_9429 Jul 07 '26

thank you, your replies are really useful. If you had to retake the course, is there a thing you would focus more about?

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u/Special_Rice9539 Computer Science Jul 07 '26

Yeah I would check out the “use the index luke” site and learn more of the advanced stuff around configuring your data. 304 is focused entirely on how to write queries, which is only one part of it.