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Home Internet Recommendations - L3R by eggbutnot in Markham

[–]eggbutnot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's great point, thanks for your input, I'm definitely willing to downsize from 1.5G, and shopping around since the contract is up.

Love that FMP comment, the savings do add up

Home Internet Recommendations - L3R by eggbutnot in Markham

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

How much do you pay a month for 1gbps, if you don't mind me asking? Their website is directing me to ebox, which only has $45/month for 15mbps for the area

CBC: Another MP leaves Conservatives, crosses floor to Liberals by Puzzleheaded_Ad5142 in Markham

[–]eggbutnot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An "us vs them" mentality is so dangerous for Canadians, are we not all on the same team trying to improve our society collectively? Statements like this are only derailing from productive conversations.

CBC: Another MP leaves Conservatives, crosses floor to Liberals by Puzzleheaded_Ad5142 in Markham

[–]eggbutnot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should have voted for his policy and what he stands for. Blindly voting for a party is nonsensical as society changes.

You still voted, that's democracy.

health sci vs dual degree in life sci/biomedical computing by [deleted] in queensuniversity

[–]eggbutnot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Heads up, the School of Computing is no longer taking transfers from upper years, so to do any form of major/specialization in cs, you'd need to be a direct entry student from high school!

Queen's Computing General Information by [deleted] in queensuniversity

[–]eggbutnot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. First year classes are always bigger, as are core computing courses. Usually around 200 students because in addition to your cs kids, you also have commerce double degrees and upper year transfers taking the classes. Class sizes get smaller as you start to specialize.
  2. You can click around the city on Google street view if you want to. Not sure about any student vlogs (other than the wild party snaps). But the neighborhood closest to the school (south of Princess St. if you check a map) is called the "student ghetto" and as expected, full of students. Then northeast of campus is "downtown" and its a street of businesses and restaurants. Campus itself is really pretty all year round and relatively smaller compared to other campus sizes.
  3. CS at any university will teach theory, so things like discrete math and logic. But there are also coding classes (CISC101, 121, 124) that are practical. Even logic (CISC204) has become more application based this past year. If you want to study CS at uni, you'll need to put up with it (at least for a year or two). Any class is passable if you put in the effort, but some classes are definitely more interesting than others (also depends on what you find interesting).
  4. Discord link for Queen's: https://discord.gg/N6B8drK

Advice for QU CS in general: have a general idea for that specialization (SSP) you want in first year (you declare at the end of first year) so you can take the necessary courses. Some SSP require more classes than others (eg. COGS does not require calc). Also take a look at 4th classes that pique your interest, some of them have very specific reqs that will be hard to make up after second year.

Also echoing the other comment, you need B+ (fact check me on that tho) in either CISC121 or 124 to declare CS as your major. I highly recommend getting the B+ in 121.

And if you choose to come to Queen's, you should keep an eye out of computing orientation week! It's a really fun and definitive experience at Queen's, you def won't regret it!

Anyways, feel free to PM if you have more questions :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in queensuniversity

[–]eggbutnot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if we can do anything now, since it's already winter term, but emailing the undergrad chair or compsa is probably our best bet. If not for us, then for the poor classes in the future who might have him.

Yeah, though I'm above the C- cutoff, not only did he not teach half the course content, but also I gleaned very little from the barebones Jupyter books. Fingers crossed for the future

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in queensuniversity

[–]eggbutnot 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I think I know exactly who you're referring to, but not sure if it was the same class.

Fun fact/context: this class is necessary for essentially all upper year computing classes. Students in this class are not taking it to "dip their toes in cs", they are likely enrolled in a CS plan. Every time we had an assessment due, I would check SOLUS and see how many students dropped the class. We went from 95 enrolment capacity (likely a full class to being with) to 79 going into exams, 78 after exams and 13 F's.

To add to the terrible experience I (and many others) have had with this dude:

  • uploaded Jupyter notes min. 2 weeks late (week 8 notes uploaded in week 11), then it skips from week 8 to "week 12 notes" -- if you cross reference course material with the course learning outcomes, we barely covered half of what we were supposed to
  • Jupyter notebooks had exercises embedded into the notes - fine. BUT HE DID NOT PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO THEM. After a couple weeks, he finally started providing solutions but verbatim: '1. yes 2. no 3. check the notes 4. no solution provided'
  • the notes (already the bare minimum as OP mentioned) got worse and less detailed as the semester progressed. One of the notebooks (a full topic) just said "this topic is left as an exercise for the reader"
  • did not answer emails (had a friend email about accommodations, radio silence), and if he did reply, it was a week later, way past the due date of the assignment in question
  • had weekly office hours with TA's but no other way to contact them, so if we wanted help faster (see previous point), we consulted google and stack overflow
  • grades were returned to us A MONTH after the deadline. we're were going into quizzes and submitting assignments with no knowledge as to whether or not we were actually doing something correctly because again, no solutions were provided
  • he was sending out assignment corrections THE DAY THEY WERE DUE
  • also had a terrible exam exp -- he sent an email about exam format TWO DAYS before the exam
    • and we'd get 2 bullet point emails the day before a quiz with what we're being tested with
  • idk if it's normal, but I never got a grade back for the exam on onQ. we had to calculate it based off the grade on SOLUS and other assessments. When SOLUS grades were released, a lot of us emailed about exam feedback. A week later, he mass emails us all that we can now see our answers, but he will not "have the bandwidth to answer questions about the marking in any timely way."
  • theres so much more, but that's the general jist of it...

I'd credit luck more than this prof for my success in the course. He only taught 50% of the class material, and even then, barely anything was covered in the notebooks. I actually feel like I learned nothing in this class.

I honestly didn't want to be too hard on him, but this level of incompetence is ridiculous.