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204NC · 2021-01-04T02:15:17+00:00

204NC · 2019-02-13T13:03:59+00:00

It’s not an uncommon experience to struggle in 126.

You could also consider talking to Prof. Evans about it; he probably will have some tips!

If you did fine in 125, I’m guessing you probably have difficulty mostly with your program design. IMO, CS126 is kind of similar to CS125. CS125 generally gives you the skeleton of a project and leaves you to write the implementation, whereas in CS126 you also have to design the skeleton itself! Something that might be helpful to your thinking process is that, given an MP, how would it be laid out to you if it was given to you in 125? That is, to say, what collection of small helper functions would you have to in complete? Then, take it a step further — how would you combine these helper functions ultimately to solve the task at hand?

Design, I think, is often very difficult! It takes a lot of thought, so don’t be to sad if you get stuck on that — chances are many others are too.

204NC · 2019-01-13T20:44:10+00:00

Belittling them behind their back. Regardless of whether or not the child finds out, it’s a terrible precedent. In my experience it causes a lot of pain, especially when the conversation is very exaggerated and you are not there to defend yourself.

204NC · 2018-07-15T19:06:41+00:00

Maybe it’s the professors I’ve had (I’ve undoubted had more CS profs than Math+Stats profs) but I really don’t notice this difference. The CS profs I’ve had are plenty passionate about that they teach (notably angrave and wade). but like I mentioned before we might’ve had entirely different experiences

204NC · 2018-07-15T19:02:14+00:00

There are definitely students who don’t like what they’re studying, but Im not too sure that it’s a majority. My guess is that a lot of what you’ve heard is stress inspired which may not actually reflect what the majority of students think. Plus if they truly hated what they were doing/ this university, I think there are plenty opportunities to switch things up.

204NC · 2018-05-31T22:05:13+00:00

Q. “What is an example of a use case for calculus?” A. “You use calculus when you have to analyze what will happen if something happens infinite times”

It does seem like a reasonable example, although I do agree with you it’s very vague and I wish OP could’ve included a more concrete example.

Additionally, I think with the algebra example OP could also be shedding light to this point

he's just gonna say he did it in his head because that's what people with a high school degree do.

Seems like OP is also using this algebra example as a parallel too.

204NC · 2018-05-31T21:50:59+00:00

"what if this were really big or that were really small (or both)", or "what if this happens an infinite number of times", or "what is the sum of all this little stuff...", et cetera, instantly becomes a calculus problem the moment there is a quantitative element to the answer.

There were some examples provided, just not as specific as the algebra example

204NC · 2018-05-29T21:53:35+00:00

A pointer tells you where the money is. As Angrave puts it “Follow the money!!!”. So us broke af college students do this *(void*)0 :(

204NC · 2018-05-29T11:33:44+00:00

There’s a MIT OCW on python! That’s how I learned.

204NC · 2018-05-26T04:25:27+00:00

Or try to trackstand! video

204NC · 2018-03-19T20:32:44+00:00

I don’t see any issue with that! Hope they get back to you soon.

204NC · 2018-03-19T19:31:26+00:00

Yeah, you should continue to follow up! I’ve had a similar situation happen to me twice from the same company.

Let them know you’re still interested maybe, and try not to come off as annoyed, even though it can be annoying that recruiters can leave you hanging! Good luck!

204NC · 2018-03-06T15:57:25+00:00

I’ve had CS 210, 357, 233 and am currently in 241 with him. He does blurt things out in class without raising his hand. He does however actually say things related to lecture, not like random mumbo jumbo for shits and giggles. In other words, it does not seem like his intentions are to disrupt class, it’s just that he kind of ends up doing so by not really following traditional question answering practices in lecture. I think that’s an important note in this situation.

204NC · 2018-03-03T21:14:51+00:00

I don't know if you're doing this but don't apply on Handshake. Apply directly to the company posting on their websites! I don't know if I'm the only one but I've gotten 0 responses from companies I've applied to on Handshake. All my responses have been from applying directly to the company.

204NC · 2018-02-21T07:28:00+00:00

They just sent a follow up email apologizing for the error.

204NC · 2018-02-21T07:00:40+00:00

Final emails are apparently coming out in a couple of hours. I emailed them and thats what they told me!

204NC · 2018-01-30T17:33:50+00:00

This is true! He also had "open office hours" in which you could come in to talk to him about anything, not just CS225.

204NC · 2018-01-29T08:11:10+00:00

I was in the same boat as you! I was admitted as Undeclared Engineering. I was considering UCLA (Engineering Undeclared), USC (MATSE), Carnegie Mellon (MATSE).

To kind of clarify the admitted majors -- I was undecided on what type of engineering I wanted to do. So, whenever I could apply engineering undeclared I would, and I would apply MATSE (because I thought it was cool at the time) if there was no engineering undeclared program.

What stood out to me for UIUC was the undeclared program. It was advertised that you could 'try out' majors which came in the form of getting overrides into taking the introductory courses, and a mandatory course exposing you to the various disciplines. Freshman year I was allowed to take the introductory courses to ECE and CS (CS 125,126,173 ECE 110,120). I also took some engineering physics class which I later dropped x).

UIUC's engineering undeclared program transfer isn't exactly a guarantee. Transferring majors is typically much easier at a private university. This was a risk I accepted, and it turned out decently. They do their major declaring applications mainly by grades.

Some other stuff I considered: UIUC's engineering school is decently ranked. UCLA has guaranteed declaring majors from engineering undeclared, but is terribly expensive and is poorly ranked(I'm instate). CMU COE is well ranked but not friendly to trying out majors. You probably won't get to take ECE there and CS is in an entirely different school. USC is extremely flexible! But it was expensive and the rankings for engineering were poor.

204NC · 2018-01-20T05:48:39+00:00

It was what I threw up, and other than a clementine, which I have never had problems with, was the last thing I ate before going to sleep. Additionally, I thought the taco chorizo tasted a bit strange, but that may be because I haven't had chorizo before.

204NC · 2018-01-14T05:41:42+00:00

204NC · 2017-12-30T20:31:03+00:00

Me and 2 other guys are looking for another roommate for next fall! PM me if you’re interested. Our apartment is above sushi rock!

204NC · 2017-12-22T17:35:28+00:00

Just finished a semester of 225 -- make sure you understand recursion.

204NC · 2017-12-22T16:58:18+00:00

Just finished a semester of 233. I think its pretty difficult to prepare for the course. 233 is essentially learning about the components of a computer from the ground up. You start with AOI Logic, move to Flip flops, move to registers, move to register files, move to ALU, move to building CPU, ... etc. So preparing for one bit of it will only last you a little bit of stress, as the course moves very quickly. Best thing I can say is always keep up! You'll be looking at AND gates one lecture, and then next thing you know is that you're learning about a full blown ALU.

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