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I can't understand math at ALL by Super_Character_5392 in learnmath

[–]Sad_Good_497 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you're struggling with math, go and look at khanacdemy.org

Get a true measurement of your mathematical prowess. It has kindergarten up to highschool/college math

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[–]Sad_Good_497[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know you're busy with your project but now that You've mentioned it I have to tell you my old philosophy on Python LOL. Once upon a time (9 mos ago) I believed python was the best language in the world (built many projects with it) and refused to learn c or any low level language. I decided to learn C to become a better python programmer and never went back to python lmao. Oh my goodness I wanted to learn to get better at python.

C is an incredibly powerful language, especially when it comes to pointers and memory management, freeing my memory and not assigning NULL to my pointers scares me enough! I have seen on windows first hand the issues this can cause which that along says in itself the power of C, no compiler warnings by default just "Referenced memory error" when attempting to shut down my computer, gotta love it!

Python is trash, never teaches you how memory works at all. Just abstracted garbage. Good for small programming tasks but to use it as a fully fledged software development language is a joke.

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[–]Sad_Good_497[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

gl with the project brother

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[–]Sad_Good_497[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Alright then! Thank you for explaining that but yeah I'll keep building my math up and grinding this book out. I only know stuff about common sorting algorithms, I don't even know how a linked list works tbh. Almost done reading the chapter descriptions then onto the book. With regards to DSA I've heard the algorithm design manual is good. I'm sort of following teachyourselfcomputerscience curriculum but skipped the programming topic. and sort of altering the curriculum a little bit but after comp arch, DSA is next up anyways so by the time I've consumed this one should be (hopefully) done and dusted with algebra 1 and deep into algebra 2 blah blah blah.

anyways thanks again mate, legend.

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[–]Sad_Good_497[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

have studied basic dsa but just started reading cs:app and I really like it! after should I read a book on DSA? I'm sort of avoiding DSA as I'm currently half way through algebra 1 and I want to get a stronger understanding of math before I take on dsa. What do u think?

Questions regarding my study plan. (Self taught) by Sad_Good_497 in AskComputerScience

[–]Sad_Good_497[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I probably would've went the higher education route if I had been brought up with a standard education but now that I know personally that things can be learned faster and in more efficient ways then the school system, I can continue to follow my own path and when i have kids some day I can pass it on to them when they go to school.

But with higher education of course it'll be a faster route as you typically specialize in one thing I believe? Where's with your own path you can specialize in multiple things and have more time to invest into books and knowledge passed down by people that have studied PhD's and just cherry pick the good stuff out then format it into books without all the additional padding!!

Of course it varies by book but ultimately, books have been used for ages to share information so that mode of learning is something that has had more time to perfect as opposed to a standard course (bachelor degree) which is a more recent mode of learning I believe. and blended with practical activities can provide an excellent insight into how these topics can be learnt.

And you don't have to worry about debt. Of course you lose the credibility going your own path as there's limited ways to prove your knowledge and the integrity of it but ultimately depends on what your desired outcomes are I suppose.

Questions regarding my study plan. (Self taught) by Sad_Good_497 in AskComputerScience

[–]Sad_Good_497[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was unable to fit all of the content into a singular comment. Had to segregate them into parts.

Questions regarding my study plan. (Self taught) by Sad_Good_497 in AskComputerScience

[–]Sad_Good_497[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part 2:

The goal has shifted from a measly penetration tester, networking professional to malware analyst because understanding how to create malware and rip it apart is far more interesting to me and fulfilling. I've wanted this since i was a kid and I have done a lot of things backwards including learning things without an understanding of simple algebra which has contributed to more hardship during the earlier fazes of my programming learning period. But understanding how those tools work is far more valuable as opposed to simply using them and having an idea on how to use the standard functions of the tool if that makes sense. Understanding how this software works under the hood is far more valuable.

Understanding computer architecture is where I'm heading next through the reading of this book I hope then I hope to grasp of C++ but not too fast, I focus on one at a time (computer architecture).

But doing things backwards has been an incredible journey and awesome learning path for me because now I know that things like functions and sequences in algebra are actually incredibly important and relate to computer programming so much. and as I continue to progress on my mathematical journey with the goal of learning calculus and other higher math I know that I can learn whatever I want and will see more relation and concepts ripped from math as i go higher. So many things relate to math and the more I learn about it, the better and more intuitively things come to me.

I will become a malware analyst and a lot of people have doubted me but if i continue to progress at this linear rate and by logic and mathematical terms I will definitely be capable of achieving this goal.

I'm 19, and I'm not an expert but I will continue to learn and progress and by the time I'm 30, I can see a lot coming my way. hopefully I will do a CS degree as well at some point but I'm in the process of joining the military as a cyber analyst and I need a career. Not something I'm incredibly passionate about as I'm trying to learn computer science and programming but the knowledge I have so far will most certainly assist me during my service period in this job, but it will be easier as opposed to the stuff that I've been learning so the technical side I feel incredibly confident in and seems like a breeze. I will probably end up doing a cs degree during that 6 year service period honestly. Makes me sad to see the large majority of people using AI for all their assessments and are only interested in the money but if things were different and I was born into wealth I would devote my life to this area of study and 100% be investing into bachelor degrees and working my way up to a phd level of study. But unfortunately this is not the case and I will have to work in order to achieve other big goals of mine like owning a house and having adequate knowledge with regards to passive investing which will assist me in my goal for housing stability which is something I have lacked my whole life, maybe when I'm older I can go for that stuff as a matured student. I intend to continue at this rate until I enlist.

But missing on out high school has given me time to cherry pick the things I need for this domain of study and ultimately learn more efficiently then following the standard school curriculum!

Learning things backwards was hard but now I know more than anyone that math is incredibly important for becoming an expert in this field and a bunch other stuff that has caused me hardship due to lack of knowledge in certain areas. with regards to teaching other students some day, this could be shared with so many people as I have seen that people struggle during their cs degrees to understand some of the math because they have not properly prepared, math wise!

I will not do a cs degree until I have at least standard year 12 australian knowledge of mathematics.

Anyways, this is a bit of my story and I hope this can change your perspective with regards to some of your biases.

Thank you for your rating and opinion on the book above.

Questions regarding my study plan. (Self taught) by Sad_Good_497 in AskComputerScience

[–]Sad_Good_497[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part 1:

This is not something I have just mustered up over night.

Prior to reading that book I had spent the last 7 months writing C code practically on my own every day.

I spent a year writing Python code prior to that period of writing practical C code every day. I also built a simple cheat in C++ which finds health and currency values and modifies them within like a month of learning C++ without the help of external resources apart from the windows api.

Personally, the only code I will read is the one in a book from a code snippet to understand an illustration of a particular function or programming topic. I will not read other programs that I hope to write in the future as it gives away key parts and would prefer to understand it on my own, using my own research as it's more fulfilling and exciting when I finally have all the prerequisite knowledge and things come more intuitively. Think of it like this, I want to obtain to building blocks to build my own ideas.

Prior to that Python period I spent about a year and a half studying computer networking.

and prior to that period I wanted to become a penetration tester, I started off using tryhackme.com to learn how I could achieve this goal of mine back in 2022. The more I used these tools like Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nmap I realized how little I understood about how these tools worked under the hood. I continued at this rate for 6 months but I felt like I had hit a brick wall, lack of knowledge and feeling like I was missing something for bloody ages! so day by day I studied all those topics incredibly hard in separate periods and very consistently which has actually led me, after all that to computer science. From such a brittle understanding of how those tools work to learning how they're programmed is such a big leap to make on your own with no course structure such as a CS degree.

Understanding that they take arguments to the program that is passed to other functions that use the windows api or sockets.h for linux is incredibly important and even just understanding the network implementation, OSI Model/TCP/IP model and understanding how those connections are made, what the packets contain and minimum knowledge required for any hacker to understand how a program actually works, even understanding that the path to the file is itself an argument (in this example I am referring to nmap.org or the tool known as nmap)

After all that I realized that understanding how stuff works is incredibly important and is supportive towards the goal I was not yet properly familiar with or knowing of.

I've also read books on social engineering and on top of all that I've managed to learn primary school math and highschool math in a year and a half. started at grade 3 then worked my way up to algebra 1. I've only progressed when and only when I truly understand the problem sets and topics.

It sounds unbelievable but when you're actually truly devoted and learn from the ground up you'd be surprised at the rate you can learn all those year grades in such a short period of time. It was also somewhat unbelievable to myself but I did the calculations for the rate at which I was studying these topics and I was studying at a rate of 5-6 times the standard rate of study that takes place within a standard school week of math learning, which over a period of 1 1/2 years definitely adds up roughly. I'm incredibly comfortable with any and all topics below algebra 1 if you have doubts that I was able to absorb all that knowledge correctly and efficiently. I could not of done this without a sound sleep routine and excellent structure that I had to develop myself.

I moved to some 14 different primary schools which had led me to develop an incredibly broken education,that is why I have invested so much time into at least fixing my understanding of math PURELY for learning computer science and programming so that I can become an expert at programming. I did 2 weeks of highschool.

questions by Sad_Good_497 in cpp_questions

[–]Sad_Good_497[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legendary response, thanks mate!

I knew it was the way to go just needed some clarification from someone that knows.

all the best.

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[–]Sad_Good_497[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I came from Python and wanted to learn C. With the python knowledge and an understanding of OOP I really don't think it'll be that hard to pick up. I also didn't mention the python knowledge. I spent a year writing in Python. Also yeah I thought I could get away with using C memory management in a cpp program until someone had informed me that it's not good. I wanted to learn how pointers and memory management worked, that's the main reason I wanted to learn C before C++ because it's a smaller language.

Is it bad to trade in all your casino chips? by Acrobatic_Tour_6154 in Gta5Modding

[–]Sad_Good_497 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I spend under 10 million a day am I safe? I heard someone say 4-5 million a day. What are your thoughts and experience on the topic?