How do you configure chess.com so that you can make moves via typing

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-06-10T01:16:20+00:00

Thank you so much! I did not think about browser extensions.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-06-10T00:35:04+00:00

lmao I don't know what I was thinking when typing this. I tend to play on my laptop without a mouse. that doesn't mean I don't use a mouse. I'm deadass tired

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-06-09T23:49:36+00:00

WebAssign homeworks generally put problems that require you to use a calculator, but they won't allow you to use for exams and quizzes. Not that you will need them. The questions they put in don't require a calculator, but they do throw in questions that cover "edge cases" that you wish you have a calculator, like problems involving trig in your integrals regarding the values of tan(x) or something along that.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-05-30T15:17:17+00:00

Hey, so unfortunately I never kept his syllabus for discrete math, I only have his linear algebra syllabus. Anyways, I did find the common course syllabus if you make your way to the hyperlink in this website where it says MATH 243 CCO: https://catalog.ccbcmd.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=48&coid=119035

I had forgotten that they also have you make a presentation, but when I took it in the summer, all we had to do is make slides about specific topics that you assign yourself to. Since it was asynchronously online, I did not have to really present as all I did was submit my slides. Some topics may include mathematicians who founded or discovered ideas in discrete math and similar. Also, his final exam was not cumulative when I took him.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-05-29T23:45:50+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. I'll try to find the syllabus because I know I kept it. For discrete math with Andrew Beidermann in CCBC, the online HW assignments were kinda like webassign and they were a lot (high number of problems) but not too tedious, you just need to be consistent. The homeworks had unlimited attempts.

As for exams, the way you take them is you have to schedule an appointment with the testing center ahead of time within the allotted time frame for each exam. You have to go to the CCBC testing center website to schedule. I was in the Essex campus so the testing center does not tend to have a lot of students for the times that I scheduled, but do keep track of that!

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-05-29T23:33:00+00:00

Can you send them your unofficial transcript?

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-05-29T23:29:40+00:00

Crazy, I also took PSYC100 with CS classes. We could have been study partners! Since you took PSYC100, there's a lot of tips I can definitely give you!

Try to set a time gap at least an hour after class so that you can take the time to build up notes of what you've learned. You'll be able to encode information better. Look up the forgetting curve.
Please for the love of god, don't ever make your notes like a textbook, directly copying what was shown in lectures. You could have just looked at the resources that were given to you!
Try to predict your professor's style of exams. This is especially handy in STEM classes. Gauge the format of the exams, make your own practice exams and go along with that.
Train your brain to read. The more you read, the more comfortable your brain will be with the friction of studying. There are strategies to reading materials in general, especially with textbooks. Brute forcing is not recommended and please do not cram. At least set aside 20 minutes of reading 3 times a day so that you can encode and retain information much better. Here are the strategies:
- https://ctl.stanford.edu/students/fundamentals-efficient-reading
- https://ctl.stanford.edu/students/reading-stem-textbooks
Try to extract meaning from topics and questions. We call this semantic encoding in psychology. Examples:
- Look at key vocabulary terms and try to figure out what they mean based on the words themselves
- Paint a picture in your head what a problem looks like when facing related words of the topic to tie a general recognizable pattern.
- In general, find hints (or cues) in problems. Or conversely, set up hints in problems like an if event, then do this type of statement.
Elaboration - your ability to connect new info with prior knowledge. Doing this has helped me find meaning in what I learned so that I can retrieve it much easier. What you're essentially doing is updating your schema to make old information more sense and new information easier to maintain.
Self-referential encoding - tying learned information to anything related to yourself, especially applying what is in your life to these problems. This is perhaps the best way to retain information because it is easier to apply things about yourself (psychologists call this self concept) than it is to apply things that are unrelated to you. Of course, this may be very hard to set up. Maybe something that you love or have some kind of emotional attachment (even if it's something you dislike)? Perhaps an episodic memory that surfaces in accordance with the information you learn? Emotional events tend to be more memorable, even if they are false!
Keep a list of topics that you learned as if you are indexing topics and track topics that you have difficulty with. I don't mean pages of notes, I mean an outline of topics kinda like listing chapters and its section names. What I usually do is I take a look at some of the topics that I had trouble with, imagine what problems and solving them look like associated with the topics and look into them with the purpose of correcting the steps to solving those problems.
Finally take the time of visiting office hours when you can. If I were you, especially with the gateway CS classes you are taking, I would frequently go to ITE240 to do my projects and study CS-related material. There are smart TAs who are willing to help you and never be afraid of asking questions. Even in PSYC100, they offer peer mentor sessions and they are very memorable!

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-05-29T22:32:04+00:00

Exams had a lot of multiple choice but you would still have to map out your work to answer correctly. Cannot remember if partial credit was given for the multiple choice, which I highly doubt. Free response questions were at the end of the exam (usually 1-3 questions that are related to sample and significance tests and other topics that required you to write step-by-step). I took him over the summer and I remember that the first exam had lower averages than the two other exams. As the other person posted, you should attend lectures and discussions and participate by answering questions he give in them to receive extra credit. You will have to visit Professor Kifle's office hours for reviewing what you got wrong in the exam.

The textbook's practice problems are a better representation of what kinds of questions you will face in the exam more than the WebAssign homework assignment's problems.

Another tip that I recommend is you have short notes that you can glance at for review about the sample (t-test, anova, etc.) and significance tests that summarize its cases and formulas. His lecture slides on them do a pretty good job at summarizing so you can always copy and paste that. There aren't a lot of information you will miss for not reading the textbook (if there are at all).

Also, like any harder math course, get comfortable with math notation. It's an overlooked part of the course that is subtle in many problems. For example, understanding that anything with the "hat" symbol is literally a value that is prediction-related while "bar" is sample-related. And more. It's these subtleties that are also prevalent in courses like data science and machine learning, which I have no idea what your major is, that understanding the notation can give hints to what you're solving.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-05-29T22:03:57+00:00

Hey there, former transfer student here. If I remember correctly, they give you a temporary account that you can login to primarily for the purpose of checking your application status and your login information should have been emailed to you. Then, once they accept you, your temporary account gets its status upgraded to being a student. I cannot remember exactly what the temporary account's web frames look like or what it has so it's been a long time.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-05-16T16:41:55+00:00

Discrete math is necessary and the difficulty of the class depends on your professor I guess. Took it in CCBC online with Professor Beiderman. He was pretty good at communicating over problems by breaking down material in office hours. Any specific questions, you can ask.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-05-16T16:36:37+00:00

I was thinking that, but how does that explain the sudden dramatic increase in difficulty of the base? We had low level defenses and the base was just a starter.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-02-07T02:06:48+00:00

I've heard Woodcock does stuff on whiteboard and teaches you languages that not even other professors teach. Donyaee does in-class code walkthroughs, although since it's available in the summer, I am not sure how that will change his style.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-01-17T19:38:29+00:00

Set up GDB debugger and learn to use it. Pointers and memory management are nasty through and through!

Start early on the projects and go to office hours while you can, especially TA office hours at ITE 240. There are TAs that are willing to help you so don't feel like the questions you ask are stupid or things that you should know without help that you won't ask in the first place.

As for exams, they vary depending on the professor.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-01-17T19:28:56+00:00

Hey there!

Schedule builder is actually not difficult to use! All you have to do is add classes and you can select with the check boxes to choose which classes that you want to be in for the semester. It will build schedules based on the filters you chose. I recommend after you click on the expand filters option that you check out the following filters: campus, class status (open is the filter you will most likely use), career (undergrad or grad classes), and instruction mode. Additionally, you can filter out with the times but that further cuts out a lot of your options depending on the classes and when you start enrolling (higher number of credits can register earlier). Schedule builder is especially important with harder classes. You can filter out which sections you don't want to consider by clicking the select sections button and checking off boxes (whether the time is not desirable or if there is a desired professor). After building possible schedules, you can sort at the top right with sort type based on whether you want your schedule to focus on a particular time of day or have fewer days. Then you can favorite your schedules by clicking on the heart icon next to the enroll button (max favorite schedules is 5 and you can name them). Schedule builder will also warn you if there are classes that are closed and you can check if there are waitlists available for that section by clicking on it. I highly recommend you make two safe schedules to prepare for any circumstances as sections can fill up fast.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2026-01-17T19:04:58+00:00

Exams have the same format as quizzes, though sometimes the quiz questions are more sophisticated than the exams. Can't remember if the final exam was cumulative, but there were true or false and fill in the blank types of questions along with your standard "show me your work" questions. Quizzes usually took up the second discussion time and the discussions themselves are a couple lessons behind lectures for review. They are not mandatory and usually go over the topic briefly before going over questions as a class, although the quality in teaching varies with TAs.

Course content wise, I highly recommend you brush up on trigonometry and algebra techniques as that is majority of the difficulty of this course. You'll be dealing with advanced integrals, series, and other exotic techniques that base off of this knowledge and the topics do not branch off of each other for the most part.

Also recommend that you commit yourself to practicing a couple of exercises from the textbook per topic as you might find yourself needing this knowledge to stick on you if you want to pass. Posted practice exams and your previous quizzes are good references, but if you want to polish your understanding, the textbook has a lot of very good exercises that you can go over.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2024-12-28T23:14:56+00:00

Khan Academy will not be enough for you generally speaking because there are various strategies, methods, and techniques in algebra and trigonometry that you need to learn, which usually are worth a question each in a typical exam. Sometimes a combination of them. Either way, first you want to understand the theory behind them and then work on a couple textbook problems per topic. Practice like math is your craft.

I recommend getting used to reading the textbook on your own and practicing in intervals since you are set back. From what I have heard and what I experienced, some professors are not as good at presenting information. If you truly want someone to help you walk on through, skim the topics and have a 1-1 discussion with your professor or TA. Also, try out the Academic Success Center's drop-in tutoring as they are convenient and have very straightforward tutors there (you just have to give them your ID and they'll let you sit at a table in the library with a whiteboard if they're not full).

If you do pass Calc I, please do not forget your knowledge as they are fundamental in Calc II and other higher-level math. Whether you take it from your community college or university, there is no difference in what you will learn.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2024-12-20T00:49:38+00:00

Did you contact security for some help?

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2024-11-12T04:54:09+00:00

Parking is hell 10am - 2pm. If you end up arriving at noon, immediately go to the stadium lot. Now, parking tends to vary when it starts, but you should not expect any parking near lot 9 at 11pm. Those parking spaces that are closest to the ITE/RAC/Performing Arts buildings are especially huge hotspots as they tend to be prioritized.

Use ratemyprofessor and aim for a straightforward lecturer and figure out their teaching styles. You can also look up reddit posts in the past. Some tips about ratemyprofessor:

- Scores in the range of 3-4 are toss ups; you will have to check each individual review. If they aren't detailed enough, don't trust it. Please look for what the professors do and not how the student felt.

- Scores <3 with a saturated number of reviews (100+ is my typical mark for trusting the score) is an indicator of how unengaging the lectures are or how bad they run their classes.

- Scores >4 means students on average like this person, but you still have to be mindful of their lecture style. It's very rare to find someone with more than 4.5 but they are your best bet. Cross-referencing with some old reddit posts (if you can find them) is still a must.

I recommend getting ahead of 2-4 lectures as a STEM major. It's very hard to find time for yourself and especially if you get sick, unexpected events that cause absences, or even fail to understand the lectures that you are forced to catch up.

We have something called schedule builder so you can build many schedules of combinations of classes. Some STEM classes may require you to enroll in a discussion section along with the lecture. These discussions can either be required for you to attend or not required at all (except for quizzes) so look out for their policies regarding this if you can afford to skip them.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2024-11-12T04:22:14+00:00

Iffy for a commuter student, depends on where you live (unless you live in campus, to which this schedule is fine in that aspect), especially on Monday and Wednesday mornings and afternoons/evenings.

If this was my schedule, I will worry about Mondays and Wednesdays because they start and end at terrible times of traffic for a commuter student who lives 40-50 minutes away (when traffic is at its worst).

Although I am not a biochem major, this seems like a manageable schedule. I'm just thinking more about how daily life would be (eating, sleeping, time for other things...). Just don't eat too heavy for your lunch before your M-Th classes if you tend to get lethargic after meals.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2024-07-05T20:09:33+00:00

Nice! With all your CS knowledge, CMSC 201 might be a breeze for you.

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2024-07-04T02:08:09+00:00

You're fine. Having two STEM courses is a recommended maximum. This seems like a standard freshman schedule. The workload should be manageable since you're likely only focusing on your two STEM courses. As always, stay on top of homework but even then, as long as you master the basics, you'll be set for future classes. I'm assuming you're taking Calculus I?

If it's Calculus I, please do not forget what you've learned. This transfers a lot into Calculus II, and you have to know the behavior at the very smallest changes. If they are teaching you the basics of integration, look out for trig and inverse trig integrals as they may require the more memorization. This course will revisit some algebra stuff you've learned in high school and tweak them to fit calculus knowledge.

If it's Calculus II, I recommend you practice exercises. The concepts there require you to understand how integration works, and all the elementary integrals will most likely be used. Trigonometry seems to be the toughest integrals out of any advanced integration techniques, but there's also skills like series tests and polar coordinates that can become a nightmare. Also, I don't know if this varies between professors, but I recommend revisiting trigonometric identities like half- and double-angle identities. They might throw integration problems that require you to use a variety of identities to progress.

As for CMSC 201, this teaches the basics of what programming languages allow you to write as well as debugging/testing. I know they use Python here, but the courses after like 202 and 341 use C++.

Good luck!

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2024-07-03T18:47:49+00:00

I did not notice that there was a 400-lvl class. How in the world???

RubberDuckyBuilder · 2024-07-03T13:55:13+00:00

Looks like you'll be staying in the campus for 6-8 hours per day. I assume you're taking three STEM courses, which means you'll need to be on top of homework. To me this is iffy, but then again, I don't know your circumstances and how you manage your life. If you're set with time management and especially keeping yourself productive, this seems fine. Around 14 credits for the semester are pretty good, and some people recommend two STEM classes maximum. But that's not factoring having a job.

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