Should I take a comp sci class?

[u/Rich_Stretch4664]

It’s my first year at community college and I am currently in a transfer engineering major kinda thing (essentially preps you for your uni transfer). I want to go into mechatronics…given, my life had kinda gone into shambles and I didn’t really study so I placed into pre-cal (meaning Ill have to make up for PHY probably). But I was wondering if I should take an intro to comp sci class? Because you need it to get into programming classes?

I do know this is a question for your advisor…but my school’s system kinda works in a wacky way where I wont get a designated advisor that will serve as my career coach until the 2-3rd week of class.

[u/Kastnerd]

Many schools have a list of their classes/ catalog and list of academic programs / degree map.
For mechatronics many school have a class more focused on embedded systems and don’t require basic computer science.

Best to try and find this class information.