CS major crew

[americanocelot]

Bump b/c new section.

[SneakyCastro]

Hey CS brahs would any of you be willing to do this Python problem for a PAYPAL donation?



Here is the skeleton file he sent us

[puddingbear]

Currently completing my AS in mathematics before transferring to the University of Minnesota's BS or BA in CS program.

I'm in Calc II right now and one of the applications of integration sections is on hydrostatic force. It's tossing my salad right now. I get the diff eq stuff really well, but damn hydrostatic force is keeping me from being able to study other stuff well. I hate having crap I don't get. Any help understanding these things is very much appreciated. Thanks!

[Luc1fer]

Hey CS brahs would any of you be willing to do this Python problem for a PAYPAL donation?

[img]http://i.imgur.com/MQtClkp.png[/]

Here is the skeleton file he sent us

[img]http://i.imgur.com/NMNXGjO.png[/im]

I'll do it for $100

[MaximumCapacity]

Currently completing my AS in mathematics before transferring to the University of Minnesota's BS or BA in CS program.

I'm in Calc II right now and one of the applications of integration sections is on hydrostatic force. It's tossing my salad right now. I get the diff eq stuff really well, but damn hydrostatic force is keeping me from being able to study other stuff well. I hate having crap I don't get. Any help understanding these things is very much appreciated. Thanks!

same chapter as i am doing right now

[puddingbear]

same chapter as i am doing right now

Took me a while, but I'm great at the diff eq stuff now. Damn logistic model was giving me grief, but I went through the whole derivation and stuff and now I can find anything with ease. Feels great. Chapter 8 was easy for me besides the hydrostatic force problems. Midterm next week, so I gotta figure them out before then.

Taking calc III, linear algebra/diff eq, and discrete mathematics in fall. Gonna spend about a month on each subject over the summer getting ready for the pounding my sphincter is going to receive.

[MaximumCapacity]

Took me a while, but I'm great at the diff eq stuff now. Damn logistic model was giving me grief, but I went through the whole derivation and stuff and now I can find anything with ease. Feels great. Chapter 8 was easy for me besides the hydrostatic force problems. Midterm next week, so I gotta figure them out before then.

Taking calc III, linear algebra/diff eq, and discrete mathematics in fall. Gonna spend about a month on each subject over the summer getting ready for the pounding my sphincter is going to receive.

patrickjmt on youtube is pretty good

[just4kickz]

Any recommended resources for picking up Java as a complete beginner to programming?

[Neg_Train]

fukkkk anyone not doing summer internship?

Bout to graduate with no internship

[jaybc]

fukkkk anyone not doing summer internship?

Bout to graduate with no internship

I was in the same boat when I was about to graduate. I had zero internships and had a mediocre GPA (was probably like ~2.8) and had multiple offers before I finished classes. My advice.

1) start applying for jobs at the START of your last semester. You'll have a better chance at getting an interview since lot of jobs get flooded by applications in the final weeks of classes.
2) list all your larger class projects on your CV and be ready to talk about them in-depth at an interview. A lot of employers aren't expecting a fresh grad to have much experience anyway.
3) make a linkedin. Use it to keep in touch with your classmates, campus recruiters, college career counselors, etc... Even if you think your classmates can't directly help you, maybe someone did an internship at a company you like and being a second degree connection will help you reach out to HR. A lot of jobs now are exclusively posted on linkedin too so it really is an important tool in our industry.

Good luck man. IMO unless you're applying for FT work with the same company you interned with, internships are a bit overrated anyway. Half the time summer interns end up being coffee gofers anyway and don't get any real experience.

[DrinkingBull]

Sup brah's

I switched from EE to CompE because I decided I want to be a software engineer. Curriculum is solid, I've already taken intro to programming (w/ C) and a data structures course( w/ C++) and taking Software Design (basically OO) now. Got an internship for the summer also. I'll also take algorithms, microprocessor/assembly, systems programming, OS, software engineering, and computer network course before I graduate. I have a 2 tech electives that I can take for extra CS courses. Which ones would you guys recommend?

I was thinking about taking a functional programming class but don't know what to do with the other elective to give me a solid CS background.

[Rangerz91]

Sup brah's

I switched from EE to CompE because I decided I want to be a software engineer. Curriculum is solid, I've already taken intro to programming (w/ C) and a data structures course( w/ C++) and taking Software Design (basically OO) now. Got an internship for the summer also. I'll also take algorithms, microprocessor/assembly, systems programming, OS, software engineering, and computer network course before I graduate. I have a 2 tech electives that I can take for extra CS courses. Which ones would you guys recommend?

I was thinking about taking a functional programming class but don't know what to do with the other elective to give me a solid CS background.

My software design course is hell right now. Do you guys have a full stack course? I'm taking that one right now and it's been pretty fun.

[DrinkingBull]

My software design course is hell right now. Do you guys have a full stack course? I'm taking that one right now and it's been pretty fun.

It sucks tbh. We spent way to much time covering uml. Instructor doesn't give us enough assignments to practice our coding. Death by PowerPoint etc etc.

I could do something full stack either for senior design or for the software engineering course but it isn't offered by itself as an elective.

[Rangerz91]

It sucks tbh. We spent way to much time covering uml. Instructor doesn't give us enough assignments to practice our coding. Death by PowerPoint etc etc.

I could do something full stack either for senior design or for the software engineering course but it isn't offered by itself as an elective.

Yeah we spent awhile on that too. We went from UML->Refactorings->(now) Design Patterns. However we have a coding assignment every week ****innng RIP. I'm in three other CS courses so I typically have anywhere from 2-4 projects due a week.

Ah yeah our Software Engineering course is our full stack course with the GOAT lecturer in our department. Here is the description.

"This is a course on software engineering using Python, Javascript, and Java. It will include the creation of a website with a database backend using the following tools: Apiary, RESTful APIs, AngularJS or React, SQLAlchemy, Flask, MySQL or PostgreSQL, and Rackspace. It is also strongly focused on using tools to improve the quality of software development, including source control with git and GitHub, unit testing with Mocha and unittest, coverage with Istanbul and coverage, continuos integration with Travis CI, and documentation with JSDoc and PyDoc."

[DrinkingBull]

Yeah we spent awhile on that too. We went from UML->Refactorings->(now) Design Patterns. However we have a coding assignment every week ****innng RIP. I'm in three other CS courses so I typically have anywhere from 2-4 projects due a week.

Ah yeah our Software Engineering course is our full stack course with the GOAT lecturer in our department. Here is the description.

"This is a course on software engineering using Python, Javascript, and Java. It will include the creation of a website with a database backend using the following tools: Apiary, RESTful APIs, AngularJS or React, SQLAlchemy, Flask, MySQL or PostgreSQL, and Rackspace. It is also strongly focused on using tools to improve the quality of software development, including source control with git and GitHub, unit testing with Mocha and unittest, coverage with Istanbul and coverage, continuos integration with Travis CI, and documentation with JSDoc and PyDoc."

That's sweet man, our software engineering course is similar from what I've heard.

Our software design course goes UML-> OO programming-> Design Patterns. We're using Ruby for the course which is pretty cool.

[Rangerz91]

That's sweet man, our software engineering course is similar from what I've heard.

Our software design course goes UML-> OO programming-> Design Patterns. We're using Ruby for the course which is pretty cool.

FUUU jelly.....
We are using java, prolog, velocity(bastardized web version of java)... god damn. I've never had to use java outside an IDE and now we have to ensure set up all our projects so that you can run tests and the program with specific command line args.

So many classpath issues make me want to cri and fist myself

[deliciouspork]

Sup brah's

I switched from EE to CompE because I decided I want to be a software engineer. Curriculum is solid, I've already taken intro to programming (w/ C) and a data structures course( w/ C++) and taking Software Design (basically OO) now. Got an internship for the summer also. I'll also take algorithms, microprocessor/assembly, systems programming, OS, software engineering, and computer network course before I graduate. I have a 2 tech electives that I can take for extra CS courses. Which ones would you guys recommend?

I was thinking about taking a functional programming class but don't know what to do with the other elective to give me a solid CS background.

functional is cool but you won't see much use in industry unless you're going into fintech. it does give you good intuition about parallel algo's and data structures though. (my school uses Standard ML for half of our classes aylmao)

most useful electives to take imo would be compilers, distributed systems, and parallel architecture

[Leonidas II]

Sup brah's

I switched from EE to CompE because I decided I want to be a software engineer. Curriculum is solid, I've already taken intro to programming (w/ C) and a data structures course( w/ C++) and taking Software Design (basically OO) now. Got an internship for the summer also. I'll also take algorithms, microprocessor/assembly, systems programming, OS, software engineering, and computer network course before I graduate. I have a 2 tech electives that I can take for extra CS courses. Which ones would you guys recommend?

I was thinking about taking a functional programming class but don't know what to do with the other elective to give me a solid CS background.

- Database Systems for sure.
- Any other Object-Oriented Language course

[Oko93]

Had my first interview ever for a CS job. It was an hour after my last exam of undergrad. Looking good brahs, as long as my references check out I got the job.

[Luc1fer]

had my first interview ever for a cs job. It was an hour after my last exam of undergrad. Looking good brahs, as long as my references check out i got the job.

gj!

[Luc1fer]

[coynemoney]

[img]http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/06/stemwomen-500x497.jpg[img]

It is interesting how there were only a handful of girls in my class but they tended be some of the best students. There were of course a couple lost weaboo girls but for the most part the girls were on top of **** and got legit jobs after graduating as well.

Fear of math i think is the main deterrent to girls joining computer science and engineering. There are a lot of girls in more bio-related fields like chemistry, pre-med, food science, etc. I think because there is a stigma that they are less math heavy. Just some thoughts.

[JakeJarmel]

not sure why people get into a panic over not enough women in stem. so what? there are very few women in plumbing and electrical work and i don't see anybody complaining over that. blue collar jobs aren't good enough for women?

[russgenious]

Had my first interview ever for a CS job. It was an hour after my last exam of undergrad. Looking good brahs, as long as my references check out I got the job.

Congrats; curious were you asked anything on databases, OS, etc... or was it just data structures and algos?

[Luc1fer]

Fear of math i think is the main deterrent to girls joining computer science and engineering. There are a lot of girls in more bio-related fields like chemistry, pre-med, food science, etc. I think because there is a stigma that they are less math heavy. Just some thoughts.

They are less math heavy. And it isn't a fear - it's a choice - because women, in general, tend to dislike math more than men. Yes there are plenty of exceptions, I work with some amazingly talented female engineers.

[Oko93]

Congrats; curious were you asked anything on databases, OS, etc... or was it just data structures and algos?

100% database design. Based on the side projects I had done in my portfolio they knew automatically I had my algorithms down pact.

p.s. got the job, and the offer was much much much better than I originally thought.

[russgenious]

100% database design. Based on the side projects I had done in my portfolio they knew automatically I had my algorithms down pact.

p.s. got the job, and the offer was much much much better than I originally thought.

Any book recommendations for databases? Thanks.

Also, how do you guys keep up to date with current tech? Besides Hacker News; I'm interested in front end dev atm, figure there's blogs/sites that I should be following

[Oko93]

Any book recommendations for databases? Thanks.

Also, how do you guys keep up to date with current tech? Besides Hacker News; I'm interested in front end dev atm, figure there's blogs/sites that I should be following

I learned all my database stuff from class. No textbook.

[BradyBConner]

So I have a lot of free time this summer.

How does one go about contributing to open source projects? I don't know the first thing about it yet everyone says it's the #1 thing to start on.

Help

[Rangerz91]

I learned all my database stuff from class. No textbook.

Wish my database course didn't suck ASS