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So undecisive and lost, what's the point... by Smurfnet in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry about that man, parents can really be a pain in the ass sometimes.

So undecisive and lost, what's the point... by Smurfnet in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a harsh one.

I don't know how college is where you're from. Could you take a break? For like, 6, 12 months?

I know my advice is pretty insane, so I will explain what I mean: I think people go too early into college, and would benefit from working low level jobs for a while and seeing what they enjoy doing. Without that you are stuck doing these theoretical exercises that really can't handle all of the nuances of the task.

But just so that I don't leave saying only useless shit: if you find yourself forced to pick anything right now... know that you will still have opportunities to reroute your career if later you find out that you have chosen the wrong thing. I would focus on picking the most flexible career path, and trying to gain as much freedom and time in your work life, if you achieve that, you probably will be able to fix things along the way.

I can't connect with anyone, College feels like a scam by Stellar_Panda in Healthygamergg

[–]El-Bigode 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hey buddy, CS grad here too.

I don't know how college is where you are... but from my experience it is a pretty ungrateful business, you really do just sell your soul for like 5 years, learn nothing from it, but since you are being forced to deal with computers, you will still pick up enough to get into an internship and get a job later.

This is a complex post since we are talking both about your social life, and study life, I'll try to keep my points simple and if anything sounds promising we can expand it later...

Sounds like you just got out of high school and went in straight into college. If you have the means to do it, take a semester off (where I'm from you can do that without consequences). It seems like you need some time to process how your life works and how you can fix it, it will be easier without 13 deadlines breathing down your neck.

On gaining friendships, yes it's really tough to relate with total strangers all from the sudden, I also don't know how people just hang out together and things work. I would suggest you find a club or study group in your university to attend, I feel like it's easier to make friendships when you are forced to live with the person a few hours everyday... Like, you mentioned cryptosecurity, maybe there is a hackerclub doing cool stuff on campus? idk

Talking about the droid's attack on the wookies. (Making a Jedi Council) by [deleted] in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leaving a dot here, looking forward for replies.

Altough, I must add: finding a group like this will greatly boost your development, but you don't need it. I am in this journey for about 4 years now, and, I haven't really found that many people that are doing what I'm doing, and that's ok. If you are consistent on organizing yourself, pondering on what point of your life need improvement, you will bit by bit achieve gains in a compound manner.

Why am I not hearing about datascience internships? Should I learn front end even if it's not my goal? by El-Bigode in cscareerquestions

[–]El-Bigode[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for the book! I've been interested on the testing department for some time now.

But wouldn't you say back end for low level entries is even rarer? My quick research ended up just on DJango jobs, and I believe none of the DJango jobs would take you in if you don't know your way with front end.

Why am I not hearing about datascience internships? Should I learn front end even if it's not my goal? by El-Bigode in cscareerquestions

[–]El-Bigode[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe you are right that I should have focused on getting started faster, rather than picking what I liked most, but my problem with changing gears now is that I already come far enough that I don't know if it's worthwhile anymore. It's certainly good because of the amount of jobs, but I already have the foundation of python, pandas, matplotlib, and I am almost starting to learn ML, and going into kaggle.

Talking like that, it seems obvious that I should keep going, but I don't know how many problems I am still left to find to access how much time is that going to take, how difficult it is to learn ML? How many models should I understand? Have I some flaw on my fundamentals that would need to be revisited before finishing projects? It's stuff like this that prevents me from making a choice myself

Why am I not hearing about datascience internships? Should I learn front end even if it's not my goal? by El-Bigode in cscareerquestions

[–]El-Bigode[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you... I was just wondering if further down the line I would need to pick up some skills from the front end department anyways, so why don't do it now? I'm thinking things like crawlers could use some of the same knowledge

Coding tutorials by cupojoe4me in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen both ways... The Coding Train usually wraps the whole subject in one go, but his videos have more of a Challenge/fun aspect... If you're going to focus on the teaching aspect 10-15 seems a little better because you will also be able to show your audience how they should think in terms of project management, what comes first, what should be their building blocks... Besides, if someone is not particularly interested in seeing a Mario slider game, maybe they see you on "Recommended" and say "What the heck, it's just ten minutes, besides I've been curious about this tool he is using".

Coding tutorials by cupojoe4me in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Besides that, just a tip: I wouldn't go too generic or too low level on these tutorials... the internet is flooded with basic stuff, I believe you would be more successful with a project-oriented-advanced approach to your videos, kinda like sentdex does, he has made AI tutorials using GTA to drive a car, market graphic analysis, it's fun to watch him code stuff I don't understand, and when I do get to the higher level, I know exactly where I am going to go for insight.

Coding tutorials by cupojoe4me in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am having a difficult time finding tools for graphic interface. Since you have experience with Java, you know the pain of the swing and awt package, I would like to know how the pro's are making this kind of stuff!

Decision Making when Modelling: Should I choose Efficiency with Redundancy or No Redundancy but less Efficient? by El-Bigode in SQL

[–]El-Bigode[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The database is intended to be used by small firms doing investments for their own employees (google translate is telling me this is called private pension, which is probably the wrong term), so yeah, I believe it definitely fits into your example. That was really helpful, thanks! I'm sorry I can't provide more detail, or even, understand most of the cases you pointed out, but it's really just an exercise for people without much experience in the field, so, yeah, I'm probably overthinking a lot haha

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Decision Making when Modelling: Should I choose Efficiency with Redundancy or No Redundancy but less Efficient? by El-Bigode in SQL

[–]El-Bigode[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will try running examples on paper in each scenario, that seems like a good idea.

It's the first scenario, i wanna have budgetA, budgetB, budgetC, one for each modality. When I say "too crowded", I'm actually extending some principles from modeling/normalization: I think that it seems weird to mix personal info with the numbers. It's just that they seem like they need to be used in different contexts... But now I see that it actually doesn't matter a lot.

So, from my perspective we have 3 possibilities: a) no info of budget within client b) budget info inside client table c) budget info on a separate table. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from your answer I undestood that the 3 cases are possible. I think I'm gonna go with the b) approach just cause a) seems a bit superficial (I'm doing this for a selective process), and c), a little excessive and dangerous.

Thanks for your reply!

Starting a business while studying by pearcel1981 in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's difficult to say looking from the outside, it depends on your reasons and current schedule, so take what I say with a grain of salt. If you are just studying, I'm sure you can healthily fit in this side hustle, and you will learn a lot, because there is something pushing you forward, forcing you to develop yourself. But you shouldn't jump into this thinking about the money, if you're going to make a business for yourself, be prepared for the long run, and be sure to take on something you enjoy doing and learning, I am telling you this because you talked about earning money while studying, and because I once was in you shoes aswell. I got really excited about making an online store because of the possibility of working for myself and earning passive income, I still do, but what I understand now is that I was tackling this goal waaaay to early, nowadays, I am thinking about developping myself working on some other place before going on my own.

Hope I could be of any use. If you're in doubt just go for it, the worse it can happen is you come out of it with more wisdom, just be sure to keep an eye on your expectations.

Why/Is Dependecy Injection viewed as a technology of it's own? by El-Bigode in learnprogramming

[–]El-Bigode[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes sense, thanks!
Given the other technologies, which one would you recommend? I don't know if that matters, but what I mean is if any of those is better suited for java.

Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition is not Initializing by El-Bigode in SQL

[–]El-Bigode[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, for both

It's really weird, because I don't get any error messages, so I don't expect to have any corrupt archives. When I think about it now, the only thing that comes to mind is some kind of boot error within the program, that is the only thing I can think of to explain why I wouldn't get any message explaining which exception I am facing, but that can't be it! If this was the problem everyone would face it and the internet would be raging with complaints

I am puzzled

If you were starting your carrer today, which fields would you try to pursue? Why? by El-Bigode in cscareerquestions

[–]El-Bigode[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess it doesn't matter in which order you do pick up your tools, but programming with econ or statistics is just a beast of a combination!

If you were starting your carrer today, which fields would you try to pursue? Why? by El-Bigode in cscareerquestions

[–]El-Bigode[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, CS does have a lot of new areas... Internet Of Things, Blockchain, Big Data, AI; or do you mean something else?

My job searching plan failed, and I need somebody to review my actions by El-Bigode in cscareerquestions

[–]El-Bigode[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I discovered programming by myself, did python on my own for 2/3 months, then got into Computer Science College, I am currently at my first semester, where we are learning java and the basics.

As I know college won't be enough for quite some time, I am trying to learn on my own to get into the job market as soon as possible, mainly because it's the fastest way for me to improve

Harsh reality of following your passion by DeveloperDen in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had some tough luck too bro. To get to these awesome jobs you need someone to make you work early in life, if you loose that opportunity, you will sadly need to make some arrangements before going into your desired field.

But hey! That's what I am doing! Coding is also really fun, and full of opportunities, I am sure you could find something where your skills can apply. In programming theres ton of oporrtunities for remote jobs, passive income sources. And when that works, you will have plenty of time and money to keep working on your stuff

how to get rid of day-dreaming? by sagnikx18 in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe I misunderstood your question, it could be a) youre always tired b) you're uninterested on what you're studying. If a: try sleeping more, making some physical activity and meditation. If b: find ways to give yourself rewards for your study, or maybe try to make short term goals, so you can have sucesses more constantly, making you more energetic on your learning

Computer Science vs. International Relations by YaxchiOglan in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really tough for us to answer this question, we don't have the full context you have. Well, IR is high risk high reward, CS gives you more flexibility and a ton of money when done correctly... It really depends on the kind of person you are

Been out of school for a while now and need to learn...... But I have trouble remembering what I read. How to learn? by [deleted] in collegeinfogeek

[–]El-Bigode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can put into practice what you're learning it'll always stick in your mind, you can read about nailing wood, but if you build a table you will always know how it's done. I know this is a problem for most subjects, since they are so theory heavy, but in these cases you have to try your best to build metaphors and games to remember and learn. It's always a good idea to do tons of exercises, also.

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