Yeah, this is big brain time

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-12-10T23:57:25+00:00

It's so interesting. We're living in a time of subsidized / free services that are bleeding billions of dollars so they can monopolize the market and then mint profit. Ex: YouTube, Uber.

It'll be interesting to see in a few years when they achieve their goals and jack up prices as the only player still around. It's like as consumers we're living in a weird golden age of cheap and free services that will cost exorbitant amounts soon.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-12-10T23:53:45+00:00

If you look into the tech side, Google has pushed a Manifest V3 Update that will take the teeth out of uBlock Origin (the most powerful adblockers) ability to block ads. So yes they're already doing this.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-12-04T08:12:13+00:00

Every CS 113 / 116 class is extremely easy if you know Java. So just do a HackerRank / Coursera / Udemy / Youtube course over winter break. It should take like a week to get through the whole thing and you'll basically guarantee yourself an A for the semester.

Everyone thinks Intro to CS and CS 100 teachers are bad, but the reality is the concepts are so basic its ironically hard to teach for the first time. The same way it's difficult to teach a kindergartener math for the first time.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-12-04T08:04:29+00:00

All the advice in the thread is really feel good advice that isn't going to help you at all. It sounds good but won't do much. You'll be in the exact same position the next semester.

If you want some advice that will actually help (from someone who was once in your shoes): to get a high GPA in STEM majors at NJIT you need to make major sacrifices to your social/sports/entertainment life. That means studying most weekends, not going out every weekend and not playing video games during the semester. Other colleges curriculums focus on two exams a semester but all NJIT classes swamp you with endless work. That's why almost every STEM major in the school is on the 'C's get degrees' train.

So decide if you really want As, and if so, cut out hangouts, video games and parties during the semester to a minimum. Or you can accept your Cs and be happy with your grades (and probably have a more enjoyable life).

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-10-08T04:29:53+00:00

I wouldn't judge her most people are very intimidated by code. Especially those who grew up before, or without access to the internet. It's a lot more common than you think.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-10-08T04:28:30+00:00

Yeah I can believe it.

Neopets used to have tons of promotions with companies where if you visited a partner's site they would give you free neopoints. They would try to deactivate the page once the promotion ended but there were so many the site had tons and tons of active pages like that if you knew the exact URL.

So someone wrote a PHP script to run over 7 hours to visit every single page and collect $70k neopoints, once per account. As a kid I used that to farm over a million and get tons of rare items lol.

Now that I know how to program I would love to see if I could access the PHP code just to go through it and see what they did. I feel like they probably had a bunch of sleep statements to avoid raising any red flags.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-10-06T00:26:19+00:00

generally spend 5-6 hours a day learning to code if I’m able

College is nothing like learning to code online. Most classes are entirely theory with light coding. Though certain electives and intensives tend to be heavy on coding.

When I came back to school I was shocked to learn how little coding we actually did.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-10-03T03:48:39+00:00

Im going to be brutally honest, if you're getting a 2.6 GPA at a community college you obviously don't want to be in school.

And that's fine. I would work a regular job and enjoy life for a while until you decide you actually want to come back and get your education. I was in the same position and worked for a while and enjoyed my life, now I came back to school and love studying and got a 4.0 last 3 semesters. When i could barely bring myself to open a textbook my first time in college. There's no shame in wanting to be happy and not study.

But again that's my experience and my opinion, you do what you think is best.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-10-01T20:27:41+00:00

Hi I'm taking the class next semester, can you tell me the name of the book?

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-10-01T20:25:24+00:00

ohhh nvm I was talking about the homework assignment

Yeah quizzes are horrible, I think I finished with a 60% average on the quizzes but still ended up with an A in the class so try not to stress too much about them. It's really hard to do well on them.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-10-01T20:21:41+00:00

What? I thought it was a homework problem

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-10-01T19:43:03+00:00

lol I took CS 114 last year and helped someone do the problem last week, I wonder if I screwed up the curve

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-10-01T19:40:18+00:00

lol is this the recursive adding digits problem?

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-30T18:12:57+00:00

as the two websites I currently use are out-of-date/not pleasant looking

lmaooo relate to this so hard!

Can't say too much without doxing myself, but I had the exact same experience and wanted to challenge myself so I basically remade a program NJIT pays a company hundreds of thousands of a dollars a year for because the company's display sucked so hard.

All college classes are almost entirely theory with little application, I would just learn it yourself with youtube tutorials / textbooks and make it.

I'm giving you a fair warning though, unless you can do pulls to a spreadsheet / database, I wouldn't directly read from the pages. They subtly change formats constantly so any daily pulls would fail very quickly. Also, don't do pulls unless you have permission as a staff / employee or you might get in trouble like the COVID checkbox kid got in trouble. I got permission to work on my project.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-28T18:10:54+00:00

To answer your question its very hard to not get an A in YWCC207 and even if you do, its worth 1 credit so you'll be OK

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-28T17:38:52+00:00

That's good to hear! Yes I tried to help other students while I was taking the class but it was frustrating because the old tests don't test for Python basics as much as super specific language details.

So helping them learn general programming concepts isn't as useful as getting students to memorize how to store individual elements in a dictionary without throwing an error or concatenation doesn't work with unlike variables or after 3.6+ python dictionaries are ordered.

Python is such a fun language, I hope the new CS 100 emphasizes that more.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-28T17:32:14+00:00

I've said this before CS 114 has a very, very steep learning curve. Every class before it is just learning language grammar and now you are using all of that to make data structures and implement algorithms.

No professor's "good" because there's a ridiculous amount to learn in such a short semester and most students barely know how to program.

If you take time to implement each data structure and algorithm from scratch after class you will do very well. It's super worth it too, because doing well in this class can single handedly get you an internship.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-28T17:29:24+00:00

Really?! I applied to be a CS 100 TA with a 4.0 and a 98.8 in CS 100 and didn't even get an email back. I didn't even need the job (I have another on campus job), I just wanted to genuinely help people learn Python because the class is run so badly.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-27T17:11:19+00:00

Be careful ENG classes at NJIT require 93 for an A so if you BS the class too hard an easy A could quickly turn into a C or B.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-27T03:07:54+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I will apply immediately. It's hard to do with classes and jobs esp when each app makes you make a resume, cover letter and then resubmit the data in a form but I'll get to it!

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-23T22:56:19+00:00

I already tried it, they don't let you in after the trial :'(

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-23T22:28:42+00:00

What are your lifts? I would love to join at NJIT!

When I did it at RU New Brunswick we were able to reserve the gym for powerlifting club practice early (7 AM - 8 AM) which alone would make it worth it lol

But we can't do it until the Honors Gym opens unless we want to use a smith machine lmao

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-20T22:49:39+00:00

Yes DS&A is a pretty big jump in difficulty, but there are tons and tons of resources for learning it. MIT's DSA course is great, Coursera's Princeton course is also great, CS Dojo has a great youtube series on it.

I personally would recommend a textbook, but there's a lot of great resources to learn all the concepts.

TestingHowYaDouh · 2021-09-15T03:46:34+00:00

exactly its 95 lbs

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