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What is the difference between these two OOP classes?

I'm not sure where else to post these academic questions and my advisor seems to lack an understanding of how to communicate such things to a newbie like me. I'm having a hard time understanding what these classes are about and what their differences are:

http://www.cdm.depaul.edu/academics/pages/courseinfo.aspx?Subject=SE&CatalogNbr=430
http://www.cdm.depaul.edu/academics/pages/courseinfo.aspx?Subject=SE&CatalogNbr=450

I have beginner/intermediate programming skills but have not yet taken any advanced programming courses.
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@sshah254, thanks :). Sorry, I have one more question. Which one would you recommend that I take first? I'm hoping to go into into web development and try to get an internship.

Would it be alright to take both at the same time?
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The 450 course will be much more helpful to you if you wish to become a web (or any other) sort of developer.  You want some understanding of the real issues - not just the ways to write nice UML model diagrams (which the 430 class focuses on - and in the real world are very rarely used).

The 450 class will likely also be a bit tougher as you can see from the higher pre-requisites.

It would certainly be fine to take both at the same time - but for the real world 450 is the one you need.

Doug
Will SE 430 do much for me other than just teach me how to write nice UML models? I would imagine that such a class would expand on the conceptual knowledge of OOP and development since nothing is slowed down by doing code, and later those models could be used to create code. Is this the case or is SE 430 a waste of time when compared to SE 450?
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