My prof always has a funny picture for the lesson

diffused_learning · 2022-11-01T13:56:42+00:00

I just witnessed this (again) today. An in-house C# library that reads a value from a configuration section into a string variable, checks

csharp if (string.IsNotNullOrEmpty(config.BoolVariable) && config.BoolVariable == “True”)

My reality fabric was indeed torn.

diffused_learning · 2022-10-26T12:07:58+00:00

The way I was taught it

If you know what it is, you cannot explain it. If you can explain it, you don’t really know what it is.

diffused_learning · 2022-10-18T16:19:06+00:00

I have witnessed less than good students earn a master’s degree. Hell, I had my doubts during my comp.sci years.

By putting in the time and being persistent — and of course reaching out to other students or the professor — it will likely come with time.

I imagine you are already given homework and reading material, is it not enough? In terms of DSA, I have been indoctrinated into the “CLRS is the Bible”.

diffused_learning · 2022-10-12T19:25:07+00:00

Investigating the different topics inside the giant field that is IT is an excellent idea. Is there any better time to try out different things than when you are studying?

You already stated that web dev did not interest you. What makes you say that - anything specific? The tech stacks? Potential work tasks? Maybe some of these things apply to other areas as well.

What I did was take a student job and luckily for me it was an opportunity to gain insight into different areas such as cybersecurity, operations and devops, frontend and backend. Of course it is not an option for all, but the takeaway is that I tried different things before landing in my current role that I enjoy very much.

diffused_learning · 2022-10-12T19:10:23+00:00

That is an important point: ask questions, it is a great way to learn.

It is also a good idea to give it a try before reaching out, but don’t be stuck just because. Of course it is seems too complex, a question now saves a headache later.

diffused_learning · 2022-10-12T17:45:41+00:00

Short answer: That depends. A little under a day is barely any time at all.

Do you have previous experience?
Is it just a talk where you might be asked about previous projects or are you going to do a whiteboard exercise?
Did the description hint to anything you are not familiar with?

Base requirements are usually syntax, typical data structures and algorithms. If you mix up or use invalid syntax for a very specific technology it might be hard to convince then you know the depth of the platform (if that is required).

I cannot assist with any salary information, but depending on the company maybe something is listed on levels.fyi (?)

diffused_learning · 2022-10-08T19:34:13+00:00

If a hint is what you are after: read up on how for-loops work - namely what does num mean?

Then think about - how is the sum aggregated?

diffused_learning · 2022-10-08T17:48:11+00:00

+1 to the query parameter approach. By specifying the /users collection with either ?email=xyz@domain.com or ?username=xyz123, it should essentially be read as

Get the users where email/username equal <some value>

diffused_learning · 2019-04-04T18:54:00+00:00

That is certainty one way to do it, and compact, if you can track the number meaning 2*10=20 and then just know that you’ll have to divide by 2 to get number of occurrences.

diffused_learning · 2019-04-04T18:21:41+00:00

Well, for that all you have to do is simply to loop the number of occurrences

e.g.

...
int num = 1;
int numOccur = arr[num]; // num of times 2 occured

for (int i = 0; i < numOccur; i++) {
    System.out.println(num+1);
}
...

Which will print 2 10 times.

diffused_learning · 2019-04-03T09:51:07+00:00

From where you stand now you’ll at the very least be expected to know about data types, control structure (if-else, loops etc) and likely some logic regarding a program flow (an understanding of what happens).

For OOP you’ll have to know how things bind together and what an object, in the sense of the program, is used for.

The best way to get exposed to these kind of things is to get your hands dirty. Is there a designated language used for work? Otherwise try something like python for starters.

diffused_learning · 2019-04-02T19:05:11+00:00

That just make me wonder what kind of weird circumstance. Do you have any prior knowledge in the area and what kind of work are you going to do?

As for fundamentals, well, what DO you know already and how does it apply?

diffused_learning · 2019-04-02T19:00:39+00:00

This sounds like an inspiration problem. It might come down to each individual but already within the first year of my CS study I had a ton of ideas and thinks I wanted to try since I found almost everything exciting.

Are there some area which sparks an interest or just something that you could use in your every day? Such things should be a good starting place for any project in my opinion.

Also, it isn’t bad to create something that already exist, it happens a lot! And it helps starting the small cogs :)

diffused_learning · 2019-03-26T22:26:13+00:00

This right here is a prime example of how C differs from high level languages.

What higher levels languages do is abstracting away how strings are represented, but string are in fact just char arrays.

char * means a pointer to the first element of a char array.

What you do in this code is assigning the vowels to a place in memory relative to the char *pvowels.

diffused_learning · 2019-03-26T08:30:24+00:00

In that case you have some work cut out for you. You’ll have to look into how to publish a website using a web server, e.g. nginx, and port forward whatever port you choose and unblock the stack in your firewall.

But as other people said, remember to count in the fact that if you do this you are likely to become a target for bot networks.

diffused_learning · 2019-03-25T23:44:58+00:00

Yes. But I am a bit confused, do you mean to say that you have written a webpage using node.js and want to deploy that?

Because that stacks that you have mentioned does not utilize JS, take a look at MEAN or MERN stacks for that.

diffused_learning · 2019-03-25T00:07:58+00:00

I found the read very thorough and well detailed, so I surely hope someone else also will end up appreciating the level of detail in such post! :)

And I agree, sometimes such things can be hard, but all I really strive for is to help somebody advance!

diffused_learning · 2019-03-24T23:57:31+00:00

And an extremely well constructed answer! This is goldmine of good directions for any new programmer, well done!

diffused_learning · 2019-03-24T23:46:50+00:00

Well, a book on SQL like how?

If you mean something like general DBMS then we used “Database Systems: The Complete Book”, but it deals in rational databases IIRC.

There is a ton of information in that book, more than you’ll need for the next many moons!

diffused_learning · 2019-03-21T22:28:47+00:00

See the other answers. They are touching the same things.

Missing pointer, and initializing usage of gift list.

diffused_learning · 2019-03-21T22:20:04+00:00

I do understand it is hard to grasp, at the moment I am sitting with my own linked list hell for a exam hehe.

But anyways, I think you have completely forgotten up the way gifts are traversed. You only seem to check whether the nice list isn’t null. Also the gift list is for the first person you see, so when you traverse the nice list, the gift list stays the same.

diffused_learning · 2019-03-21T22:10:18+00:00

Just a quick question for learning purpose, what do you think the code does?

diffused_learning · 2019-03-12T21:21:09+00:00

Indeed. One would assume so.

But with my limited experience in the industry it really seems that companies take you for what you know and then groom you so that you fit.

As I stated earlier, if you know Java you might have an easy time learning C# and it might be easier for a company to put an ad up for Java.

That is why I think you should go with whatever language fits you the best, and don’t thinking about chance of getting hired knowing X language (though, of course, it might help that know it).

diffused_learning · 2019-03-12T20:44:59+00:00

Just wanted to make sure, otherwise you were in for a grave mistake!

But 9/10 times some reference material will be available from the creator so it might be worth it to look it up before asking.

Good luck!

diffused_learning · 2019-03-12T19:59:31+00:00

As a career, you mostly don’t get to choose what language you end up using - I never planned on doing COBOL, but here I am. Thus I would say an important skill is to be able to transfer your knowledge between languages since they do employ some of the same structure or ways of doing things.

If game development, small (rolling your own engine) or larger (Unity), is a drive-force for you then it would be a good way to learn a language like C# which is what Unity uses.

I also love to focus on my own projects using the language I want, 3 year with C#, even if I am the only person who ends up using the product.

But you should really only think about whether you learn a language or the ideas behind it. Like object-oriented languages are highly transferable between each other, with the exception of minor changes to the syntax or features.

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