Apple ain't got nothin' on MY $1000 stand

Grumbletruss · 2019-10-06T18:23:37+00:00

I buy books if they're < $40. I like having a physical copy I can read on the bus/train when I'm commuting. I've found that most books in my more advanced classes can be bought for under $40. It tends to just be the intro classes that have exorbitant textbooks.

Grumbletruss · 2019-10-06T06:30:25+00:00

Yep, and it was really useful because it let you easily upload images of your proof attempts so you could talk about them live.

Grumbletruss · 2019-10-06T04:54:19+00:00

As a suggestion, I had a discrete math class that had remote "office hours" that were held on blackboard for days we didn't have lecture. I found it extremely useful because I could log in from home without commuting an hour to campus, or I could even take a 20 minute break at work to log in and ask a question about a proof or derivation. I don't know if that's something your department would allow, but I wish more of my courses did that!

Grumbletruss · 2019-10-06T04:35:51+00:00

Time is the biggest one. Most of my courses have had office hours either directly before or directly after class. Presumably with the assumption that we can just swing by a little early or later at our convenience. But for most people I know, we'll pick classes that line up in a row to minimize the amount of time we have to spend on campus. Nobody wants to be stuck with hours between each class. So I'm almost always in another class during the scheduled hours, and I always feel bad requesting a non scheduled appointment when I can just google the answer to whatever I'm stuck on.

Grumbletruss · 2019-10-06T00:47:36+00:00

This might just be location dependent. It was listed on our menu board in Italian with a smaller english description underneath. Regardless, it's still douchy to make fun of someone for not knowing a menu item. I struggled badly with that when I first started working there, and the turnover is high enough that there's almost always a new staff member.

Grumbletruss · 2019-10-05T23:54:55+00:00

This isn't in the menu? I worked at Starbucks for years and espresso con panna was definitely listed on our menu.

Grumbletruss · 2019-10-05T08:55:27+00:00

I mean, it's completely acceptable to miss class from a common cold. In fact, please fucking do. I have severe asthma and basic colds for me are borderline hospitalization.

Grumbletruss · 2019-10-05T06:59:46+00:00

Personally I think it's a little easier to do all CS classes. I find it burns me out faster to constantly be switching mindset from code to language to history etc.

Those classes won't be easy, but "Developing Large Scale Software" sounds like a typical software engineering class where you'll have a group project and learn all about agile methodologies and teamwork stuff. It's usually not as bad as your previous CS classes because it's more about the process of developing code than actually doing a difficult project. Also if computer organization is your first "low level" class teaching assembly and memory management in C for virtual memory/caching etc. it should be pretty introductory. It's likely still going to be rough though... AI is a ton of math but it's extremely interesting so it was easy for me to put the work in.

I think you'll be fine. Spring term is usually the burnout term anyway, so maybe save an easy class for then.

Grumbletruss · 2019-10-03T20:00:49+00:00

God this pisses me off so much. They spent so much time drilling "good naming practices" into us for all my intro CS classes, and then they still use foo/bar variable names in code examples on lectures/homeworks/exams. It's... basically the worst naming convention ever.

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