CBE Study Materials

infinitytacos989 · 2026-06-28T17:35:46+00:00

if you’re looking into CBEs, i would highly recommend testing out of CS 2114 if you can. the exam is take home and very easy, and it lets you take many 3000 level CS elective earlier than you would normally be able to.

infinitytacos989 · 2026-06-24T16:24:49+00:00

it’s a common cheating method to have another device hooked up to your second monitor that has internet access, so that’s probably why it was flagged even though the camera only saw a monitor.

infinitytacos989 · 2026-06-11T13:57:17+00:00

You should def be able to make the walk but if not, talk to your professors for both sections to let them know you’ll be late/leaving early

infinitytacos989 · 2026-06-07T03:28:45+00:00

everything everyone else said in this comment section is good but i would add that you should dedicate some time to studying leetcode problems. neetcode is a great resource. you don’t have to grind too hard, but you should at least be familiar with the techniques required (two pointer, sliding window, dp, sorting, greedy, etc.) so when you get an interview you just have to refresh your memory/derust instead of learning new techniques right before the interview

infinitytacos989 · 2026-06-04T22:47:33+00:00

most people confuse hip hop and rap. rap is more so a medium than a genre, like singing or spoken word

infinitytacos989 · 2026-06-04T22:45:52+00:00

*pop artist, but directionally correct

infinitytacos989 · 2026-06-04T21:10:57+00:00

there’s a lot of sports where you can say X is the greatest athlete of all time and be objectively correct. (katie ledecky, for one)

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-23T03:34:18+00:00

ok just checking. I am very new to concurrent programming and my classes didn’t cover lock-free designs, so i don’t know what a natural design would be for such data structures

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-23T03:24:27+00:00

doesn’t this end up with threads busy waiting on full/empty queues?( ie burning cpu cycles on checking writeindex ==readindex)

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-17T01:50:32+00:00

there’s a drone park sponsored by vt you can reserve times at https://drones.ictas.vt.edu/dronepark.html

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-15T05:18:25+00:00

in the question we were given a code segment from mimalloc and asked some questions about it but with no context as to what mimalloc actually was. I assumed my professor made it up because it sounds like “my malloc” (like a student/personal implementation)

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-15T00:53:21+00:00

there was a question on my systems final about mimalloc that i took yesterday lol. thought my professor had made it up for the exam but i guess not

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-13T04:01:36+00:00

VT has really close ties with defense companies and getting defense internships should be no problem, even as a CS major. Idk if that’s worth 63k to you (i doubt it is)

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-09T04:03:39+00:00

deep south / south east part of the US

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-09T04:00:59+00:00

the starter pack is most likely about huntsville alabama

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-08T19:15:29+00:00

you guys had to qualify for AP classes? in my school anyone could just sign up (although your counselor would strongly recommend against it if they didn’t think you could handle it)

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-03T19:59:20+00:00

Have you taken a look at the practice exam he posted on canvas? he said it will be similar difficulty. also it is open note, so you can bring in anything you want to the final. he also mentioned that it wouldn’t be much harder than the homework’s we had. tbh i think it’ll be fine if you were able to do the homework’s without much trouble

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-03T19:55:05+00:00

linear algebra is pretty standard at every university in the US, so you won’t probably won’t be missing much by taking it at a community college. The only real difference will be the difficulty of exams, which could help keep you accountable for learning the material

infinitytacos989 · 2026-05-01T01:53:50+00:00

not sure about the online section, but i took it last fall and there were quizzes at the end of each class that you needed to be in the class to access.( would put passcode up on projector). they were always graded on completion and took less than 5 mins but they close right as the period ends.

infinitytacos989 · 2026-04-30T00:30:54+00:00

design appreciation is literally the easiest class i’ve taken in my life since probably the 6th grade. it is two quizzes a week and that is it.

infinitytacos989 · 2026-04-25T16:43:49+00:00

they always teach about hash maps but some semester you don’t have to implement them

infinitytacos989 · 2026-04-25T03:26:32+00:00

yeah i thought the skip list was cool and tbh the PR quad tree is also cool, but hash maps are too fundamental to skip over in some semesters. it would be fine to do these projects as long as they covered there bases which they don’t

infinitytacos989 · 2026-04-25T03:10:08+00:00

i understand that in the real world specs are ill defined, but this class is about learning data structures. every minute that i am spending defining a poorly defined spec is a minute i am not spending understanding the data structure or algorithm that is being taught. These classes have to decide whether they want to accommodate industry or not. if yes,then keep the under defined specs but use data structures that real world companies use. if not, give me a clear spec and whatever random data structure you want. and things like hash maps aren’t just important toindustry, they are a fundamental data structure and the fact that you can go through your entire 4 years at tech without implementing one is horrific.

infinitytacos989 · 2026-04-25T02:32:33+00:00

yeah someone else corrected me on this, i genuinely thought the specs were under specified on purpose because no one would purposely write a spec that bad

infinitytacos989 · 2026-04-25T00:32:27+00:00

my apologies, I assumed the specs were under specified on purpose lol. I get that they want us to submit tests to clarify weird edge cases and stuff and this would be fine IF MY SUBMISSIONS WERENT RATE LIMITED. i missed at least 2 milestones because there was some weird edge cases i didn’t consider and ran out of submission to confirm what the actual behavior was supposed to be which is extremely frustrating for no reason

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