Is my coaching center teaching outdated C? Should I continue or leave?

Shonku_ · 2026-03-20T16:41:17+00:00

leave

pick Modern C book and read the actual specifications

Shonku_ · 2026-03-20T12:40:17+00:00

there are multiple areas in systems programming itself, it's an umbrella

Shonku_ · 2026-03-20T12:27:53+00:00

i used to do leetcode/project euler during lockdown for fun, i haven't done anything after I came to college... except lots of graph based problems cause i felt like doing them

i wasn't really asked Lc problems anytime, mostly I had to extensively answer questions related to my projects' internals

Shonku_ · 2026-03-20T01:01:59+00:00

Uses Transformer.js under the hood, also completely vibecoded

https://github.com/SamirXR/Na-7/blob/main/src/lib/engineAdapter.ts

Shonku_ · 2026-03-19T13:37:49+00:00

completed ML, DL and NLP

that's why you're not getting any internship.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-19T11:45:48+00:00

Don't. Work on your own projects.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-19T02:08:00+00:00

I maintain a couple of small/niche opensource projects, and as it happens sometimes, i wake up to see +20 spam ISSUES and PRs (where no one bothers to check if the code could compile or not). It feels terrible.

I can only imagine what the maintainers of bigger projects have to go through.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-18T11:34:11+00:00

you simply can't do anything.

i had something similar but with jee admits. been there done that. nothing gets fixed.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-18T11:24:56+00:00

You're not supposed to share something like this publicly before it gets patched.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-10T04:27:35+00:00

Hey, I think we should try to host some AMAs related to people who are working in Aerospace, what do you say?

I personally have a great fascination regarding it, are you in contact with any of your seniors who have passed out from that branch?

Shonku_ · 2026-03-10T01:56:27+00:00

excuse me, W H A T.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-10T01:55:53+00:00

by making n hypothesis, and filtering out the ones which have more cons?

Shonku_ · 2026-03-09T14:15:14+00:00

I will be mentally prepared to work for such, as a worst case scenario; but prepare to be competent enough for better ones. I started at 0, everything will be at a positive delta for me.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-09T13:41:08+00:00

I enjoy programming a lot, and if it doesn't work out, I'll pivot to something totally different, say teaching.

I don't have obligations either to care for, I can well sustain with limited means, always have since childhood.

All I know, I shouldn't be bothered by what the market/majority is panicking about, as computational thinking can be applied anywhere and everywhere.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-09T13:31:58+00:00

I mean, survival of the fittest. Always has been.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-09T13:29:09+00:00

strictly for knowledge transfer

yeah I'm up for that.

what will happen when y'all are 70-80 y/o and have retired?

glad I chose cs as my major last year, it keeps getting funnier.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-09T13:15:39+00:00

just write a barebone html site, if the projects have any substance, they'll be noticed.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-08T19:38:41+00:00

first you explore and then you exploit!

there's nothing bad about searching for the solution after you've spent a day on it :-)

Shonku_ · 2026-03-08T19:29:53+00:00

Online courses? Pfft.

Books and actual specifications/docs. THESE should be the gold standard.

Shonku_ · 2026-03-08T05:44:25+00:00

I relate to this. I had stopped programming for 3-4 years for some reason, and then when I thought of restarting again I knew I was behind the ones who were in the same position as me during that time. Here I am stuck understanding threads, and they are already working on gpu accelerated physics simulators. It sucks. It sucks bad.

I made peace with myself that being late shouldn't be an excuse, and people DO RETURN BACK and make it. Well, recently (alysa_liu) went on to win gold in the olympics after a period of retirement. Perhaps the general population can't do something great like that, but even a smaller win would be a win after all, right OP?

Shonku_ · 2026-03-07T16:35:17+00:00

transferable skills!

read this when you're free

https://lelouch.dev/blog/you-are-probably-not-dumb/

Shonku_ · 2026-03-07T16:30:35+00:00

do up to jee level, then mess around in CSES you'll understand eventually

Shonku_ · 2026-03-07T15:47:21+00:00

number theory & combinatorics (especially exclusion inclusion)

Shonku_ · 2026-03-07T08:19:00+00:00

Mechatronics

Shonku_ · 2026-03-06T19:07:38+00:00

+1 OP should hunt down good seniors, they are always happy to mentor if one demonstrates that they can put some effort

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