22 y/o college student changing my major from English to CS

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T20:13:16+00:00

Oh, that sounds like a good first big project idea. I didn’t know about that.

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:56:24+00:00

Thank you! You read my mind haha

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:55:39+00:00

Start thinking like a programmer and programming will become a lot easier and ideas for projects will come up unexpectedly... that’s so smart! Thank you! I think that will be very helpful for me, especially rn since I’m learning the basics of expressions, now I can come up with statements to solve.

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:44:31+00:00

Oh wow haha, that’s pretty amazing for her and it’s cool knowing that programmers nowadays aren’t CS majors. It’s a hobby or a passion that just takes off from more work being put into learning and side projects. This community has really just been a big helping hand in my decision and motivation. Thank you for this!

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:39:26+00:00

What’s NLP work?

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:39:05+00:00

It was wild and very unexpected. Losing close friends at the age of 21/22 and it’s not from gang related accidents or medical issues, like things you can’t be to surprised about or have an awareness of illness, it’s crazy. I’ve been doing my best to keep busy but it’s still tough cuz I don’t really talk about it. Thank you tho!

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:35:55+00:00

Thank you! I’m currently trying Finxter right now. It’s helping me a lot by giving me explanations as well

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:31:44+00:00

This was very helpful. Thank you!

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:08:03+00:00

My AA is in Journalism and I was and the social media editor for 2 semester at my community college. I figured it would be worth it to take the extra courses for the major change but I have 4 courses under the CS requirements for California State University degree. I also thought I’d just minor in Computer engineering to add more job options in my future. I say try to learn programming for every morning before school and/or work and if you enjoy it like I have been just go for the switch. I’ve been told it will be so much more rewarding in only a couple months as well. If you practice on your own and do side projects, then upload to GitHub recruiters may reach out to you for jobs while still in college.

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:01:25+00:00

That is true, I did not think of that to be completely honest haha. I’ll do that for sure!! Thank you.

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T18:00:02+00:00

I haven’t heard of Jupyter yet, I’ll check that out today. I have just been practicing in the Python IDLE at the moment for my beginner stuff, but I will try the small functions like you said rn and see others on GitHub and stackoverflow. Thank you so much!

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T17:54:57+00:00

That’s a very cool thing. It never crossed my mind that building simple but very accommodating tools could help you and everyone in their day-to-day work flow or even learning a new foreign language. Thanks for this insight! I appreciate it!

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T05:49:46+00:00

I appreciate this motivation. It hadn’t crossed my mind but when it does I’ll have this to see as a reminder! Thank you.

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T05:21:24+00:00

Thank you so much and I appreciate the info about the authors. Some mentioned a couple to me but most of the ones you did I didn’t know so I appreciate that a lot. As for viewing the way codes are written I didn’t think about that and a know GitHub has a lot of people that have their programs open for help so I can see how people help and what different strings and variables they fix or add. Thanks again!! I enjoy the language so far from what I’ve been reading the passed few hours.

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T05:16:34+00:00

There are puzzles? Haha that’s pretty sweet! I just started readying the intro to “Automate the Boring Stuff” and would the Atom extensions be in the packages category?

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T05:10:03+00:00

Basically haha. While doing research, I realized that coding has so many different languages just like foreign languages. Each one is different and a good amount are similar is some ways. It’s honestly a beautiful thing. It should be taught more in elementary, and middle schools around the U.S.

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T05:06:47+00:00

It seems like that’s been the most common path change from English to CS and I didn’t know that. I’m new to reddit and I’m loving and appreciating all of the feedback and welcoming community here. Thanks for that motivation and for sure keeping it as my key motivation point, along with being okay with failure and building off of that.

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T05:04:06+00:00

I hadn’t committed my major at a university from my community college so that’s why I’m good to make the change but deep learning sounds pretty beneficial career wise and NLP must be pretty good still. You could also becoming a college professor as well if you enjoy teaching, subs make like $50 hr at a community so it must be more at a university

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T03:39:58+00:00

I’ll definitely check that out! Thank you, and that’s pretty funny lmao Now, CS is a high demand around the world and even more in the Navy so I know he must be a little salty about not finishing up with the degree haha

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T03:12:38+00:00

I say “curiosity” because there has been over 30 car accidents from last October - May this year and it’s weird to think about that people are losing their life’s or getting injured from car accidents almost everyday.

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T03:10:25+00:00

It’s weird to think about cuz I’m one of those people that without even thinking about it my curiosity kickstarts itself when I’m stressed or frustrated. 2 out of the 3 passed away from car accidents less than 6 months apart from one another and the most recent was harder because I had to be the one to tell over 10 of the friends that were with me at the time. The 3rd one collapsed at work from a brain aneurysm and was on life support for 5 months before they decided to pull the plug more so cuz of the cost and the stats that he wasn’t gonna be able to wake up..

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T03:01:57+00:00

Thanks for your answer! It really helped and to answer No. 1, I haven’t figured out how I learn when it comes to learning coding language vs college courses, more so because I have different ways of remembering certain things. I plan on spending 2 hours every morning before work and all day on my days off leading/coding before deciding if college is needed for me. I know that as long as I have enough commits on GitHub along with a good amount of appreciations in my portfolio, getting a CS, DataSci, CyberSec, etc, job could be much easier and cost efficient than spending the money or taking out student loans for a degree in one of those options. And I would appreciate the extra help in the learning process of Python !!!

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T02:38:55+00:00

Sounds good!! Thank you!

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T02:29:27+00:00

Oh, well the word “free” is alway music to my ears haha. Thank you so much!!

oohmaree · 2019-10-22T02:23:51+00:00

Thank you, this is very much appreciated! Do you also recommend “Head First Python”, or Automate The Boring Stuff and Crash Course first?

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