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Requirement of laptop depends on the curriculum of the course. You will need a laptop for presentation work, assignments, lab work and project work. So you will need a laptop right from first semester if you have the above tasks in your curriculum. Sometimes you may have to prepare a seminar presentation as an assignment. Civil Engineering course has lab works and you will have to learn designing software like AutoCAD, Solidworks and other such Designing softwares. It will be helpful if you have a laptop so that you can learn these softwares and practice. You have to take up project in final year for that you will have to work on laptop.