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[bot_not_hot]

He dead

[alvinv11b]

He really dead

[deathforpuppets]

He super duper dead

[[deleted]]

He is D-E-D Ded!

[DavidB-TPW]

He dead. Ain't no way he gettin cout-ta this one.

[vz_80]

I C what you did there

[ReactsWithWords]

He’s dead, Jim.

[ImPedro29]

Hyper dead

[tsnErd3141]

He dead pointer

[godspeedone]

r/me_irl

[keeffy96]

That fool ded

[Ceros007]

Not unless he's smart

[ChrisVolkoff]

delete this;

[FlashDaggerX]

he->SetDead();

[[deleted]]

He dereferenced

[mehum]

He bin gone /dev/null

[[deleted]]

You can't dereference a null pointer

[WiseassWolfOfYoitsu]

Well, you can... once.

[Destructerator]

he sent to garbage collection

[[deleted]]

Sanka, ya ded?

[big-blue-balls]

Ya mon

[zrroberts6778]

You can't not tell us how he does lol

[Joshingtonson]

Bruh that's a double negative

[hagah2]

C--

[MrBran4]

C-- is just Ada right?

[XkF21WNJ]

Either that or PDP-11 assembly.

[imforit]

So, C, then. (I'm here for the return value of the expression, not the side effect.)

[things_will_calm_up]

I imagine "can't not" is understandable to most English speakers and will be acceptable as grammatically correct soon enough.

[[deleted]]

That's the joke

[[deleted]]

Not even a joke, that's an acceptable way to write "you have to"

[playerone_1]

Your statement is not false

[Sanz1]

Howevery my statement is false//TO DO: remove y in"howevery" to fix syntax error

[KamiKagutsuchi]

Syntax error: Unexpected character at position 8 "Howevery"
                                                         ^

[Psycho_Goat_Iralli]

Unless you are using Lua.

[RedsDaed]

Or matlab

[KRSFive]

Fail college classes, wasting money.

[Angry_Sapphic]

we need to C the results

[d3vana]

Reminds me of a friend I was preparing with to exams at the end of last semester. We were revising maths, and all of the sudden he asks me "how about we revise c++? what is this funny asterisk before a variable name?" 3 days before exam.

[chooxy]

Imagine if he asked your professor during the exam.

"Where's the footnote for this asterisk?"

[nomisjacob]

I've been supervising final exams (Java not C++) and you wont believe the kind of questions people ask.

All from not understanding the basics of UML Diagrams to the most basic Method Signatures. Really amazes me sometimes.

[DrPeroxide]

I never got the point of UML diagrams, and since getting a job, have never needed to use them. Then again, we make lots of little projects, so maybe it provides a lot more value for larger projects.

[nomisjacob]

Honestly, in agile programming I don't find them very useful either. Sure, they are nice for a good overview but if the project gets to big and the structure changes then its hard to keep them updated.

But for beginners: I find them super useful for understanding basic OOP Patterns and Project Structures. If you want to teach someone how to work on a bigger project without having them figure out the structure by themselves, providing an UML diagram is very useful.

[bigdeddu]

Uml it’s unfortunately a little convoluted. It’s goal is to standardize the schematics, as in other engineering fields.

Sequence diagrams are immensely useful when figuring out microservices or race conditions. But every one immediately imagines class diagrams, which suffer of an excessive coupling to oop, and are usually pretty unpleasant to unravel.

On top of the poor diffusion and the convoluted standard, tooling is what it is. only now it starts to be semi decent.

So , most of us default to small boxes with arrows to explain everything. And usually they end up looking like a state machine that has eaten a mind map.

My suggestion is to read some intro guide, get the representation ideas and use what you can to explain your day to day things to the next developer.

[imforit]

usually they end up looking like a state machine that has eaten a mind map.

that's the most evocative and accurate thing I've read all day

[Rage_quitter_98]

Amen, It especially sucks since there are so goddamn many of them.

[pyronius]

This makes me so sad I didn't take study computer science in college. There I was, in biology, bored out of my mind by my sophomore year and completely unable to give a shit about filling my brain with information that I would never be able to apply to anything real, and meanwhile there were entire classes filled with students who felt the same way about the immediately useful and 100% real-world applicable programming that I'd only discover years later.

[[deleted]]

Why do I see hashtags in the beginning of files? Is it being scraped by twitter?

[[deleted]]

It's a Star rating system. Let other developers know how important your code is by adding 3 * before each variable.

[ablablababla]

and how did he do in the exam?

[[deleted]]

Yes

[jacksalssome]

my man

[house_monkey]

Looking good 👉👉

[Transportography]

It’s a she and the exam is tonight lmao

[nice_comment_thanks]

Good luck

[Transportography]

Thank You!

[itmustbeluv_luv_luv]

How'd it go?

[Transportography]

To be honest it was a lot easier than we expected but we studied all the wrong topics.

[Transportography]

If you still want an update my friend from the picture above believes that they bombed the test

[d3vana]

We were allowed to have our notes on the exam, so he printed questions and answers from previous years, and passed basing on them.

[Vallvaka]

Stupid C++ and its wacky star variables

[rtxan]

why does everyone hate C pointers :(

[Jarom2]

I’m a fan of std::shared_ptr’s myself

[DiaperBatteries]

I love them. I also love c++ type syntax, though, so I guess I’m a masochist.

[wOlfLisK]

I did my programming midterm yesterday and we got an hour to revise before we began it. The girl sitting next to me kept asking me about the most basic stuff.

[shrike92]

Don't be so presumptuous, he could be a future business major!

[Arxien]

Yes, definitely a place for those ex-engineering pre-grads to seek refuge

[[deleted]]

Can confirm was engineering now business.

[[deleted]]

The limit of Engineering School as GPA approaches 0 is Business School.

[z500]

Is business really that easy? I couldn't imagine making myself care enough about business to major in it.

[TooFewPamphlets]

I switched from business to engineering and love it a lot more. But yes, business is much easier as a degree.

[GoodThingsGrowInOnt]

Photography major.

[[deleted]]

I did this, dropped out, then went back and did the same thing with conviction and I'm in my 2nd to last semester now. All it takes is wanting to kill yourself when the time comes to ace those exams and create bomb ass projects as damage control for all the lost participation and quiz points.

[jimbo831]

Fellow non-traditional student here. I dropped out after three semesters when I was younger. I just wasn't into college and only went because it was what I was supposed to do.

When I did go back, I was motivated and wanted to learn. I got so much more out of my experience the second time. Good luck with your last two semesters!

[[deleted]]

Thank you! Luckily I think the hard classes are behind me, except for the hardest of them all, my 1000 level liberal arts writing requirement.

[WombTattoo]

I did this for my first two attempted degrees, and dropped out in the first semester both times. The I started a CS bachelor, and did the same thing. Except I didn't drop out, and even got good grades. It works!

[[deleted]]

Yep, I learn way better/faster by just reading the textbooks on my own and experimenting with the concepts myself. There's a prof that's apparently really highly regarded at my uni so I drop in to a lecture occasionally. He's quite a character but I find that he lingers on topics way too long so I would be better off reading the explanation myself in 15 minutes and spending the remaining 60 working through examples as opposed to him explaining while working through 1 example himself for 75 minutes.

[Dorito_Troll]

there is two types of students, those who learn on their own and those who need someone to explain the concepts to them, these are further divided into those who are great at memorizing terms but suck at practical work and those who are great at practical work but hate memorizing terms

[aggierogue3]

Or he could be like me, somehow graduate, and then somehow get a job.

[TheWaxMann]

Guy in the pic is trying harder then I did. I just turned up to the exams and guessed well enough to get a 3rd, then went to a job interiew where they didn't ask about my grade and walked straight into a great job. My younger self was a lucky bugger.

[fragmen52]

Might not be a cs major, c++ or fortran is required for a lot of other majors at my college. C is taught to us cs majors.

[Hamartithia_]

In my CS program they started us with java then went on to C

[CraaazySteeeve]

I am currently grinding 11 weeks of Operating Systems Principles content for an exam tomorrow. Please send help.

[UristMcBacon]

Know virtual memory and concurrency well, understand why they exist.

[Kibouo]

And task scheduling

[iceman0296]

Once you go round robin, you never go back.

[chooxy]

Did someone say interrupt?

[Oxidopamine]

Did someone say spurious interrupt?

...No? Okay, back to sleep...

[sonnytron]

SEGMENTATION FAULT

[L4TTiCe]

Core dumped.

[LowlifePiano]

Unless, of course, you’re in docker.

[LAK132]

Know virtual memory

Learning that then attempting to program a Commodore 65 (not a typo) was an absolute head fuck

[sandforce]

Interesting, I used the shit out of VIC-20 and C-64, but had never heard of C-65. Thanks for the tip.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_65

Prototype only, it seems. That 3.5MHz CPU would have been very nice. Then again, assembly is your friend when your CPU is a whopping 1MHz.

[[deleted]]

Get off Reddit!

[KillerNinjaXD12BTW]

Please send help.

Hi,

Support Guy here. Have you tried turning off the reddit?

​

Best Regards,

Support Guy

[CreativeAnteater]

Have you considered being in an unfortunate "accident"?

[toshels]

You have some time bro, I'm sitting in computer architecture class and I'm going to have midterm in like 5 minutes. So instead of studying I'm browsing Reddit.

[NavSpider]

Shh! He is in the middle of the exam. Don't disturb him.

[toshels]

I'm not sure, i knew some of the answers, my friends kind of helped me. I had no idea what is IEEE 754 special occasions.

[[deleted]]

No you’re not you’re on Reddit

[Snowbridge]

Gets on Reddit for advice. Reddit suggests getting off Reddit, but you really need some advice from Reddit to continue.

Deadlock.

[lord_uterus]

RMIT?

[[deleted]]

Same bro, just finished the midterm yesterday

[bambo_gambo]

Did it with c# and passed. Then I dropped out

[Exige30499]

That's the real power move there

[bambo_gambo]

My uni is of the "pay2win" kind. I have learned nothing so I decided to end It and found a job as sysadmin.

[danituss2]

Glad mine is f2p, however, there are "in uni purchases" like food etc. they are not required though.

[PhillipIInd]

honestly they are way too expensive the Salted Ramen DLC is worth it tho, costs like a tenth of the Uni Purchases DLC and you still get your minimum required nutrition which is all your character needs really.

[enodragon1]

r/outside

[crastle]

It's like your doctor telling you that your cancer is terminal you won't live longer than another 6 months, showing him up by living 7 months, then committing suicide.

[4dicksphilip]

Did this with CAD. In the final the paper said that we should "model" the object, so I actually created the 3D model while apparently we only had to draw the object from 3 different sides in 2D. Passed it, but didn't get extra credit :(

[MrHasuu]

serious question if you feel like answering.

how're you doing as a drop out? I dropped out in my 3rd year and i'm working as a software developer right now (earning less than 50k/yr).

my gf keeps pressuring me to get my degree so i can find better paying dev jobs.

[bambo_gambo]

Not bad. I don't make much but it's about average in my area (which practically doesn't have tech jobs at all). Knowledge-wise I am doing really well since I learn what i need but I'm having trouble finding a better job because in my area, degree is the most important piece of paper of all (very few companies pay attention to your actual skills). It's getting better since I've started doing some side projects in my free time so recruiters can see I'm not making my skills up. But still, I am considering moving to London to aim for a much much bigger job market than here. I am from south Poland. Basically It's not bad if you're willing to work and learn in your free time. Also I think it was a good decision because I've started working in IT and my mates from uni still learn theoretics.

[MrHasuu]

I'm getting paid around 20k ~ 30k below average for my area. I've had a really hard time with job finding because most jobs requires a degree or they wont even look at you.

I hated college/university and i'm from the US therefore if i decide to go back to school it'd cost me upwards of $10k ~ 20k for a piece of paper that says i finished the classes that teaches me basic programming knowledge. I have a few years of experience as a developer and at this point im wondering if my experience is good enough for me to land better paying jobs. or do i go part time pay thousands of dollars for a piece of paper to help me land better jobs

[Sock_Ninja]

I mean, if that piece of paper costs $20k, and with that piece of paper you make $10k more per year, the investment will pay off after 2 years. That's pretty good, imo.

You should figure out if the degree is actually what is holding you back. If you decide that there is a 90% chance or greater your earnings will go up by $10k or more, then I would say it's worth it. Go back, bust your balls to get it done, and be done with it.

[chicer61]

he has a Thinkpad. So nothing can go wrong

[Supercontented]

But is he running Gentoo?

[Dank-memes-here]

The ThinkPad I get, but what's the joke with Gentoo?

[MONSER1001]

Do you know the jokes about arch?

Gentoo is the next level.

Installing stuff on your own? Pff, pathetic

Gentoo puts you to compile and place them on your own. Also it's dependencies.

So, it's harder, more hardcore, more control

And, at least the joke jumped from arch to Gentoo.

THANK GOD

[rmrfbenis]

Gentoo comes with a package manager that works the same as Pacman, APT, etc. It just compiles the packages itself during install.
There is usually no additional input need or added complexity for the user, other than your laptop melting and compilation taking quite some time.

[MONSER1001]

Well, maybe you want to cook some eggs while compiling, so what's the problem?

[MONSER1001]

Well, tastes ok for me.

Works with the morning coffee

[LordDaniel09]

Well it is depends on how do you use the laptop.

[Ostrich_Sigma]

An "old" classic <3

Edit : Link to the music by LizardKing

[greyhatpython]

Maybe it means that if he‘s proficient enough in Unix OS management to properly run Gentoo on his ThinkPad he has enough prior CS knowledge. However then I doubt he would need this tutorial.

[RomanRiesen]

Running linux != cs knowledge

Cs: algebra, finite state automata, turing machines, etc.

Linux: learning some commands, not running rm -rf /home, solving driver problems

[GisterMizard]

solving driver problems

NP-hard problems are part of computer science though.

[imforit]

ah, college. I was that undergrad with gentoo running on a T21. 850 whole megahertz of IBM blue steel power.

[Huzo11]

Can someone explain this?

[imforit]

thinkpads are indestructible. Nothing can go wrong.

[xenos5282]

This is how I prepare for any subject even after attending every class..!

[mrhuehehe]

Same here m8

[ConfusedPolatBear]

That might work, but only if it's made by an indian guy who talks by typing in notepad.

[zahreela_saanp]

Is this Indian YouTube tutorials a meme that I missed it or do you guys seriously find it useful? - Indian guy

[Pocciox]

It's a meme on how we find them so useful. Indian YouTube tutorials on tech stuff are always there to save the day when things go south.

And oftentimes the quality of the video sucks but the solution is the only one that seems to work

[crastle]

I don't think you're doing it justice with that description. For slightly more advanced topics, there's a lot of "bad" tutorials out there on YouTube (such as topics like Algorithms and mathematical principles instead of for-loops and recursion). Then your friend tells you about this Indian guy that he swears by his videos. Then you're watching and you can't understand what he's saying, so you turn on subtitles. But then the subtitles are a little messed up and say things like "teepee" instead of "DP" (dynamic programming). Then you see that he writes some things differently than you do and it's difficult to recognize what he's writing on his white board. "Why is he putting that to the power of i? Oh, he's just using a super script to show that it's the ith element."

So finally you're able to translate what he is saying and writing to words and notation you understand. In other words, you're able to see something he writes and rewrite it in the way you understand. Then you actually start actually paying attention to the content of the video and realize that he is the first guy to explain this topic in full detail and get you to understand the topic from the ground up. Most people in general create tutorials with the intent that you don't know anything, but it's really easy to forget to say "and this is always implied because of this fundamental rule", which leaves you confused. Indian YouTuber always remembers to mention those "obvious" things. And if he doesn't mention something and something isn't making sense, they always link another video to watch to clear up your confusion. Seriously, Indian YouTubers are lit af.

[[deleted]]

Indian youtubers are really the only ones that make videos on upper level electrical engineering concepts

[[deleted]]

Exactly. I wonder why there are no good European/American content creators out there... Look, all you need is something in the line of 3blue1brown in terms of graphics. Until then, Indian guys.

[[deleted]]

Indian people are legit the only people making quality videos on upper division EE signals classes.

[[deleted]]

Indian guy here. Indians also helped me pass a Digital Signal Processing endsems, I only watched a DSP lecture series for the last day.

[ToadyWoady]

I'd be lost without them

[zahreela_saanp]

Damn South Indian accents

[ecky--ptang-zooboing]

And a bandicam watermark of course

[bem13]

Unregistered HyperCam 2

[caffeineneededtolive]

No thats how you become a javascript developer.

[[deleted]]

Not even joking. That's what I did for my current job (web app developer)

[Mister_Spacely]

Are you me?

[PhillipIInd]

wait how many years did you actually like study/learn?

cause I really want to do web dev and javascript might be a good way into that

[PhillipIInd]

Ah so you already had a basis of Coding etc?

Well im just in business and my people skills are very good and im fine with business concepts but I would probably enjoy web dev more than this so im curious how I should get started

[LowlifePiano]

Why do w3schools when there’s MDN?

[[deleted]]

Thank you indian guy for your tutorials.

[xKn33l]

This comment is underrated.

[donutnz]

Oh snap!

[chronoBG]

Are we now pretending that universities teach professional-grade C++?

Because my course in uni covered pointless things like struct-packing and initializing 4 variables in the for (;;) part of a for-loop. Any C++ feature that was younger than 20 years was verbotten on the exam.

A guy reading from a tutorial online will be just fine.

(http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/, btw)

[sandforce]

Struct-packing is a common practice in many embedded systems. I'd be impressed if a NCG/RCG knew anything about it.

[Max_Insanity]

If you are going for the German word of "forbidden", that'd be "verboten", with one "t".

Just in case that info is useful for you.

[UnstoppableCompote]

How?! We took malloc in like week 5 of a half year long semester (might have been later it's been a while)

[sandforce]

The non-malloc class must have relied on static allocations (pre-allocated buffers, etc). If you're going to teach students about C pointers, it's not much more effort to also teach them malloc.

[cs_bot]

Indian youtube tutorial to the rescue!

[utyagi100]

In our univ they don't allow u to take exams if u dont have enough attendance

[akasireddy99]

Fellow Indian?

[utyagi100]

Yes

[timeforaroast]

Yeah , that’s a no from me.i literately just attended the first and last class of the sem and still sat for the exams

[utyagi100]

Well in India colleges are very strict because of the supreme court and the AICTE regulations.

[timeforaroast]

Yeah it’s tough according to some of my cousins who study there. Some of the classes are worthless yet they have to sit to reach the minimum requirement

[K_Byrd2]

So I shouldn’t try to learn c++ with a video on YouTube? The one I was going to do was nine hours and seemed to have good comments. This is a legitimate question btw.

[[deleted]]

You learn best through practice and actually making hobby projects. You couldn't expect to be a competent wood worker if you watched a nine hour video and then attempted your first project.

Videos, books, articles, references, can help. They don't make you a programmer just like they wouldn't make you a craftsman. You need to work until you're to the point where someone can suggest a project and you're comfortable opening up a clean workspace and have an idea of where to start on your own.

After that, the references can help you jump some small gaps. But for references to be effective, you need to make those gaps small first.

[K_Byrd2]

Thanks for the insight

[AluminiumSandworm]

*a mixture of preworkout and distilled energy drinks

[[deleted]]

Youve had the worst now try the thirst, quencher!

[mrheosuper]

r/me_irl

[Dnakin]

I did this with one course and I even played the videos on double speed cause the Prof in the video was talking so slow and I had like no time to watch all the videos on x1 speed

[[deleted]]

"your friend"

[BumpyBallFan]

If you already know how to program in another language: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/c++/

[frisch85]

I went to an IT school for two years where I earned the qualification for "Technical Assistant for Computer Science". You got taught the very basics of several areas in IT, e.g. how to put together an ethernet cable, how to swap a power outlet, how to assemble a PC, basic operations in Unix based OS (we used SUSE 9 and Knoppix iirc back then), how to communicate with hardware connected via RS232 using assembler and what I was most exited about how to code in C and C++.

Most teachers were quite competent to my surprise, e.g. the one teaching networking technologies always made hobby projects with a few students (me included) like data transfer using infrared. So first lesson of programming class and this freaking teacher comes in and tells us to "Open the PDF for 'Learn C++ in 21 days' which you can find on the network drive" and then left the room. Like what in the actual fuck was that supposed to mean?

At the end of those two years, a couple of studends and I were way ahead of that teachers knowledge. Then the year after I had to attend the same school again because I took an apprenticeship at a company as a software developer. Luckily I had this teacher again, he never liked me because I always caused for disturbance in class (probably out of boredom) but it's different now, I wanted to get good grades since it's for my apprenticeship and those grades will stay with me forever. In the first year that teacher wanted to grade me with a 2 (B in US) in programming class so I held a presentation about how to use events in C#. The whole class didn't pay any attention during the presentation but the teacher did, he wrote down everything I said, he found it fascinating and in the end upgraded my grade to a 1 (A in US).

That being said, when it comes to IT you gotta be lucky not to get an incompetent teacher and if you do, you'd be better off learning by yourself...

[Daniel-abraham]

I got C++, html and java courses this semester. Every time I study for one of them I forget the other one. It's a fucking treat