Highly recommend, for anyone planning on doing comp sci this is prob the best degree option. If you don't meet the requirements in terms of knowing how to code and enough math to get by, you can use the cu-boulder curriculum available to get up to speed on everything you need. Math, languages etc are all available on coursera. I finished so far 11 of the 30 required courses but taking extra courses on the side to brush up on things I don't know. Math is my weakness so I am taking other math courses for data science and ML on coursera to make sure I understand it enough. There are no official pre-req for this, you just pass their classes for data architecture or algorithms and you are admitted. More on reddit.com

The CU Boulder subreddit unfortunately isn’t a terribly representative sample of the university opinion (and lends itself to surfacing disproportionately more pessimistic takes), and I would take any comments here with a grain of salt. Boulder/Front Range is home to FAANG (minus Netflix) + major consulting and defense companies and they all recruit from us. The site lead of Google Boulder is an alum (and extremely friendly person who engages with CS here). That said the big companies are open to grads of all of the top engineering programs in the country, and CU is one of them, so they’re here too. CU CS is a competitively ranked program, but ultimately what matters is what you do while you’re here to make yourself appealing for the role you want. Your professors are extraordinarily well networked and likely have a connection into a company you want to work for. They are also generally very excited about their research area and most of us make plenty of opportunities to involve undergrads. (CU SPUR and DLA are just two of the programs the college has to encourage this.) Most undergraduate programs teach slightly different takes on the same core material. The best thing you can do for yourself (and this applies anywhere you end up) is to engage with the faculty and take advantage of the tremendous opportunities the university can make for you. It seems most undergraduates at all schools don’t know to engage beyond their coursework (or don’t internalize that part of orientation). Can’t speak to this one, but my understanding is it is generally collaborative and supportive here. You can get approximately the same quality of education at both as they’re both strong, nationally recognized programs with great research cohorts, but what will make one actually more worthwhile is if you’re more likely to engage with the curriculum and leverage opportunities to build things/build your network at one more than the other. More on reddit.com

A note: CSCI 1320 starts in MATLAB and moves to C++. I'm not sure about 1300 or 1310, but I haven't seen anyone working in Java at all amongst the engineering freshmen. More on reddit.com

I graduated from CSPB this summer and didn’t find any of the pre-recorded content to be an issue with the possible exception of 3308. The content is pretty evergreen. cs1300 is a pretty gentle introduction to programming so if you make sure to work through the content you should be fine. Typically it’s good to pair that with other courses that are programming lite while you get comfortable. The cognitive science and info viz courses are good for that. I can’t think of any grading that wasn’t fair. Just spreading content out and not crunching really helps. More on reddit.com