CS Uni Thread

>>61302177
Cont.

Currently majoring in be cyber security, got a CCNA for free as it was integrated in my networks and switching unit. Hoping to get into network architecture, so I'll likely attempt the higher end Cisco certs over the summer break.

>>61302177
>OOP
drop out

>>61302177
just go ask on the cs subreddits. /g/ is a consumer tech board now.

>>61302177
>Needing a whole unit on OOP

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>>61302954
There can only be one..

>>61302177
>First year CS student here
>Any prep ideas?
just turn up to shit. ez

>>61302177
Why are your courses so specific?

>>61303261
At my uni we do 4 units per semester. OOP is an elective. Data is core. The other two are apart of my cyber security major.

I'm an aus fag if that helps.

>>61303538
What university?

>>61304372
This is the course: https://www.swinburne.edu.au/study/course/bachelor-of-computer-science/

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>>61302177
>CS
>not EE master race

s m h

>>61305252
hey some of us didnt know what the course for semiconductors was called

>>61305252
How was it? I was gonna go for that instead of CS

>>61302954
Fuck off reddit

Information systems master race

>>61305274
Can be hard going but quite fun at the same time.
Was on the fence about taking CS but decided that since EE covers some programming, I could become a programmer with EE but couldn't become an engineer with CS.

>>61305291
You mean the drop-out major for people who were too stupid to make it in CS? Which is already a drop-out major for people who were too stupid to make it in math/physics/engineering

>>61305240
Ayy lmao, ill be starting my cs degree at Swinburne next semester, most likely network design/cybersecurity double major. Have you seen they added a new "Internet of Things" major? Thoughts?

>>61305714
Nah I didn't realize. I'd recommend networking and security any day of the week. Pretty happy with swinburne so far. I'm currently studying Comp Sci (cyber security) and Law atm. I got an 87 atar meme so I couldn't go to Monash. But their comp sci department is fucking terrible so idk if I even want to transfer anymore.

>>61305876
I've been told that Swinburne is very disorganized. But I do like Swinburne for its options in majors/minors etc

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>>61302177
>be me
>studying CS in Germany
>second semester
>drop out rate after the first semester 50% due to mathematical courses like calculus and linear algebra as well as weekly programming assignments
>courses about digital systems and computer architecture are awesome and seeing all the brainlets fail those courses gives some joy to my bitter life
>tfw code monkeys who are good at math will fail electrical engineering 101 and semi conducter physics this semester

>>61302177
are you going to a for profit school because that sounds like a really shit first semester?

You are missing things expected in undergrad freshmen. I don't see how first semester any of these classes can possibly not be total shit that fail to properly cover their topic.

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>>61306137
>studying CS
>semi-conductor physics
What the fuck kind of shit show is this? Do car mechanics in Germany have courses in fluid dynamics as well?

>>61302177

why you would post this picture, i do not know

>>61305456
>engineering is hard
try again
t. engineer

>>61306261
engineering is memed pretty hard for some reason, it isn't really that hard. I'd argue that the hardest path is probably pre-med -> med school because those fucks have to basically sit around memorizing huge lists of garbage and studying stuff they hate deep down. My engineering friends have tons of free time, my friends doing med track oscillate between being high on adderall and suicidal depression.

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>>61306261
Tfw I went for EE in stead of mech eng.

>>61306289

>adderall and suicidal depression

i can confirm, but if you throw in NoFap it helps big time

EE bros, explain this:
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/mobile/electrical-and-electronics-engineers.htm
Will I be able to get a job when I graduate?

Remember to get an internship.

>>61306365
Very good advice. Helps you get a job and you have a chance to try out different types of companies / careers which may interest you

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>>61306243
>Do car mechanics in Germany have courses in fluid dynamics as well?
If they study Mechatronics at an university and head to work as a car mechanic at a big company like Volkswagen for example, they will probably pick fluid dynamics as one of their optional classes
In comparation to US colleges, european universities are more sophisticated

>>61306474
I'm not an americunt. I live in a neighboring country to yours. But I see you have autism, which must be nice, since you managed to somehow completely miss the point.

Here's a question for you lads:
I graduated from chemical engineering in december and am still looking for jobs. I want to move towards programming because there are much more jobs for it in my country.

Do I actually need a CS degree to git a job, or can I do online courses + intern work and then expect to get a job reasonably easily (or at least easier than I'm finding it now)?

>>61306620
Who fucking knows? It depends entirely on where you live. A bachelor's degree in anything is worth jack fucking shit where I live for instance. It's really more of a formality than anything else here.

>>61306675
hmmm, good point

Going to start a python-based CS course in 1 week.

What should I expect?

>>61306696
Pain, blood, sweat, absolute suffering, and eventually catharsis followed by your inevitable demise.

>>61303061
>>61302218
why? you don't even know the content of the class. i had a oop class which taught how different languages implemented inheritance, how dispatching is implemented, compared oop implementations in different languages (eiffel,smalltalk, common lisp, ...), lots of type theory, oo in fp in detail, etc

>>61306289
>Pre-med to med is hard
Getting to med school is hard but pre-med is fucking easy. You fill your course with biology courses that's nothing more than learning vocab words. Chemistry is only the brainy course since physics is rarely required

The people too stupid to get into med school never do research and are too busy posting on facebook on how they are going to be doctors rather than study their vocab words

>>61306289
If you want to go to med school and aren't a retard nowadays, you don't major in pre-med. They actually have some of the lowest med school acceptance rates now, since biomedical engineering took over as the "smart kid pre-med"

>>61302177
I've never heard anyone in real life utter "Uni" ... does that mean /g/ is really a bunch of European college students?

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The number is 32,875

If 32 in binary is 10000
If 875 in binary is 1101101011

The binary representation of 32,875 would be 10000,1101101011

But how the representation of 32,875 in 32-bit IEEE 754 is:
0 10000100 00000111000000000000000

>0
The sign 0 for positive

>10000100
Exponent 5+127 = 132

>00000111000000000000000
[1].00000111000000000000000, in brackets the hidden bit that means

1.000000111x2^5(binary) is equal 32,875(decimal)

To make it simple

100000.111(binary) is equal to 32,875(decimal)

which is not
>10000,1101101011

The first part 100000(binary) is 32(decimal)
How do you go from 0,875(decimal) to 0,111(binary) and not actually 1101101011(Number 875 in binary)?

I'm about to finish my Bsc in Computer and Network technology; done lots of Networking, security and OS stuff as well as some OOP and web design modules. Youtube has a shit ton of tutorials, if the way your tutor explains something doesnt sink in, try them.

Turn up to everything if you can.

If you get the opportunity to do any Cisco stuff (lots of uni tutors are also Cisco certified tutors and can offer it for free it seems) take it. The materials and software you get on netacad are useful.

>>61307420
Uni is what it's called in Australia. Sometimes highschools call themselves colleges.

>>61305714
You'll do the following core CS units in first semester at swinburne, here's my experience:

>Web Apps
Very simple content wise: html, css, php, JavaScript, sql. Most of your grade hinges on the Assignment's which are long and feature somewhat confusing instructions. Read over the criteria a few times before you submit. Examination and in class tests are quite easy once you learn everything. An easy HD if you have good time management and don't fuck up the assignments.

>Networks & Switching
Pay attention during lectures, they're not recorded and the learning material is intentionally vague. It's structured more like a second year subject, it had a fail rate of 36% this year. Luckily, the unit is managed and taught exceptionally well. Jason is a fucking beast lecturer, he's helped Cisco develop their higher education courses. Hardest part is the skills exam (practical examination of the content you learn), practice for it in packet tracer and you'll be fine.

>Intro to Programming
It's a portfolio subject, in which you'll select the grade you're attempting for, and do the appropriate tasks to attain it. You'll mostly write in Pascal (good learner language with easy syntax) and C (aids syntax). It's helps to stay ahead of the curve so you're not caught writing your HD assignment during swotvac.

>Algorithms
This subject is also pretty easy; complete all the labs and read the lecture slides and you'll be fine. The week 11-12 probability component is somewhat difficult though.

>>61306046
In some aspects, classes are usually released late so it's difficult to build a good timetable. Other than that, the only disorganization I've experienced are a few mics running out of battery mid lecture and 2 mistakes on the Algorithms exam paper.

It depends on the unit convener. Web, Networks & Programming were very well managed. Algorithms underwent massive changes so it was a tad fucky at stages. Should be better for you though.

>>61306170
It's second semester. Also please elaborate.

>>61303237
math. lots of it
if you can handle the math everything else will come flying

So many Aussies wtf.
Any of you cunts at usyd doing cs?
>tfw you're too autsitic for the normal classes so you do TSP instead

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>>61307648
>How do you go from 0,875(decimal) to 0,111(binary) and not actually 1101101011(Number 875 in binary)?
That's because thats not how the fraction is interpretated in IEEE
The first digit after the comma is 2 to the power of -1 which is a half (0,5)
The second digit is 2 to the power of -2 which is a quarter (0,25)
And the third is 2 to the power of an eights (0,125)
Sum them up and you get 0,875

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>3 years since i finished high school
>was lazy in math (recently diagnosed ADD)
>no memory of math because neeting melted my brain
>starting university CS in less than two months

i know i'm smart enough but i lack the background and routine that others already have, how screwed am i?

>>61302177
https://hpbn.co Network material

>>61302177
that boy is really cute

Im a Finance student 1 year away from graduation, but looking to do another bachelors in computer science, anyone know a good university in Europe to go to? or have any advice?

>>61310786
Just go on Khan Academy and go over some precalc stuff. You should be fine as long as you force yourself to do the work. Take Adderall if necessary.

>>61310902
>>61310786
This, you'll be fine.

I was in the same boat and didnt even finish much khan academy but I've done alright.

>>61302177
>>Data Management
>>Network Routing Principals
>>Technical Software Development
That sound like meme gimped courses desu.

>>61303061
I had 4 semesters of learning to program with OOP at increasing complexity, your foundation is probably shaky as fuck.

>>61306243
I had to do physics shit in my "digital design" class regarding how transistors on cpus worked

>>61306696
a pretty good time if they stick to PEP8 standards

>>61311121
> wasting time on oop bullshit

>>61307648
>The binary representation of 32,875 would be 10000,1101101011
thats where you are wrong you fucking faggot.
learn unsigned binary before you further confuse yourself.

>>61311180
I'm interning for 26$/hr this summer, have one year left of school and your a neet :^)

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>>61311197

>>61311197
I made $25/hr in high school. OOP ain't shit.

Last year of CS/Math minor.

>Fall
> Design & Analysis of Algorithms I
> Databases II
> Introduction to Probability
> Some other course I haven't picked yet

>Winter
>Operating Systems
>WWW Structure & Technical Standards
> Introduction to Statistics
> Applied Linear Algebra


>>61310786
Are your algebra skills good? Brush up on that. Basic trig, too.

Just read the textbook, and DO THE PRACTICE PROBLEMS/ASSIGNMENTS. It's that simple.

Similarly, for your programming classes, you have to code. The people the fail are the ones that never practice, and think understanding the lecture slide is good enough.

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Any BC Bros here?

Info Systems major here. All I want is to get a job in networking. Do I really need to learn a bunch of languages for that or am I fucked?

>>61314807
>Languages
Idk who taught you programming, but once you learn the concepts and understand them properly, there's no reason it should take you more than 2 weeks to learn the syntax of any language.

>>61305252
Oh, EE is that course where you learn to solder two diodes facing eachother so smarter people can do complex stuff, right? :^)

>>61315108
this :^)

Did any of you need to take Formal languages and automata theory course? How was it?

>>61314742
Kink?

>>61316782

F-furry?

>>61302177
discrete math is going to destroy you if you aren't ready

be me, 5 years experience on the job at major companies

>take calc 1: fail
>discrete math 1: fail
>statistics: pass
>database systems: fucking fail wtf?

it's fine though because i still have 3 million dollars, i was just going to uni for fun

>>61306861
Your taking a glorified java course pajeet

>>61305252
going to take CS at this uni. How fucked am I?

>no math

haha, enjoy your IT degree.

>>61316867
with ducks???

>>61305714
>>61305240

Have fun at your degree mill, don't bother unless you're going to Melbourne uni, monash used to be ok until they opened up the course to plebs. only pre 2014 monash compsci and melbourne grads are seriously considered by employers now.

>>61316895
That doesn't even make any sense. Statistics makes use of 2 of the courses you failed. Did you just have shitty professors for those subjects or something?

>>61311983
I'm going to be brutally honest with you. If you think OOP is nothing, then you do not have any tech related jobs. OOP is a necessity for anything related to programming and not being a fedora wearing web dev neet. I work on server side infrastructure for a living and everything on our side is done in OOP. Attempting to do it by any other means is an inefficient data store nightmare of massive proportions. Now please tell me how you're going to properly and efficiently index an entire data store with anything but OOP. How are you going to manage client accounts? How are you going to make it structured, efficient, and not redundant? How on earth will you do it anon?

Oh wait. You're a hipster wanna be programmer with no real world experience. OOP dominates the entire industry anon, remember that.

>>61316968
The ones I took were all based in C++ and specifically we used linux to program on. Not sure what kind of shit you paid for.

>>61316895
I hope you did in suffer stupid blogger.

>>61317523
You probably only dislike him because of the amount he quoted, really. If he hadn't you'd probably sympathise with him

Don't fall for le algorithms and theory meme.

tfw no difficult subjects in the first year, no programming taught in the first year and get to learn about (((business systems, hci, and """""""software engineering""""""""(no software engineering concepts are actually taught, it's just related to project development)))) instead.

They're only doing this because I got to a degree mill, basic programming principles taught in the first year caused too many students to drop out in the past, so in an effort to keep then in and milk them for as much money as possible they teach us vaguely related subjects.

>>61317501
How's the wife's son?

>>61317501
you have to go back

>>61317568
that sounds terrible, you probably know what you need to do to get ahead though (hit those senpais up)
just out of curiosity, which country are you in?

>>61317617
australia

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couldn't handle the math so i dropped out
spent the year at a company doing webdev shit, going back to uni in two months but in software engineering instead

>>61317702
How long were you in for, and which parts did you find especially hard? Any specific points/tips you would give your past self if you could?

>>61317428
Honestly, I was really over thinking the discrete math stuff. I had been warming up for the course by reading up on lots of number theory, but neglecting to practice writing proofs. The course was heavily based on writing proofs, and no matter what I wrote down that made sense to me, the tutor was like "that's not a real proof", and it was like pulling teeth to get him to tell me what it is he really wants to see. Communication break down, and every time I thought I did okay on an assignment I was marked even less than the previous one.

The database one has to be a mistake. I'm going in this week because I think they mixed up my exam paper with something else, I was acing all of the assignments (obviously, since database admin is part of my job, and the course was one of those that are pretty easy for people who have an intro, but hopeless for those who have never seen the stuff before).

>>61317702
>c#/C++
>i'm such a great programmer, yet i lump in two completly different platforms, languages, and solutions into one, obviously because i'm so smart because i compiled the tensorflow demo program once