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Xen said:

I am, perhaps, an aspiring programmer/software engineer. I have pretty much 0 exp aside from very little CSS... what are the reqs for getting accepted to a software engineering/programming faculty in university? How hard is it? How deep is math involved? (I heard conflicting answers!), are you enjoying it? Anything else I should know of?

THANKS!

I think I already answered this for you before, so I don't know if I can tell you that much new. But I'll try regardless.

You should look up the requirements at the university you want to study at, the requirements are likely different depending on where you want to study and what kind of programming courses they have. Generally, some good math skills are likely required to get in, but you will not necessarily be using them (depending on what you plan on doing).

If you end up solving mathematical problems (which includes dealing with movement and physics), you might want to make sure you at least have a decent handle on math, but you can end up doing work that doesn't really require a lot of math too. It's hard to tell before you get into it.

Personally, I'm really enjoying it, and it's not always easy, but the difficulty feels appropriate. The only real way to learn programming is to get your hands dirty and get coding. Getting experience is always a good thing here.