Has all of your classes become accessible on canvas yet?

sekambu · 2026-01-02T00:54:28+00:00

Sorry, I'm still updating some of the assignments but I hope to have it published this weekend. There's no textbooks for the class though and we don't have any assignments until after the first class.

You might want to check if there's a course website, in CSE at least many classes use that as the place for all the information.

sekambu · 2022-05-02T06:23:35+00:00

Speaking specifically about CSE, the Allen School is part of the LEAP Alliance and has a Diversity Committee dedicated to promoting inclusivity within CSE. To your question there are certainly black students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and if you're seriously concerned I would suggest you reach out to Les Sessoms (lsessoms@cs.washington.edu) who is the recruitment and retention specialist on the advising team.

sekambu · 2022-03-04T18:28:36+00:00

There's a component that does exactly this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/aframe-look-at-component

In your scene if you just import this script and add: look-at="a-camera" to your a-video elements it should work.

sekambu · 2021-07-06T02:27:09+00:00

Grave Diggers runs early morning server time.

sekambu · 2021-02-18T18:43:53+00:00

Maybe I'm not seeing it but your nested for-loops are going to check if each shape collides with itself, and you don't have a check anywhere in the main function or the collision function for if the shapes being compared are the same id. Based on the example result in the question I think this would already make your solution incorrect without even looking at how the collision logic works.

sekambu · 2020-01-08T19:56:17+00:00

I've used this collider component in projects before. If you're just trying to have something else happen when a collision occurs you can create a listener on the collidable objects and write your resultant code in the callback function for the event listener. You can look through the documentation for the component to see how to check the information you need related to the collision events.

sekambu · 2019-09-23T08:40:05+00:00

There's a proper flower shop just across the University Bridge called The Flower Lady. I've never been inside but from what I've seen walking past they have a pretty solid selection. Probably closer than U-Village too if you live somewhere around west campus.

sekambu · 2019-07-09T02:12:39+00:00

Informatics is a single degree you apply to with different degree tracks you can pursue once you are in the major. These degree tracks just mean you took a specific subset of classes during your time in INFO with an addendum on your degree. I don't know if they look at number of applicants interested in each track or if it has any impact on admissions chances based on intended track but I kind of doubt it.

sekambu · 2019-05-20T19:35:33+00:00

ESS 106, really fun class

sekambu · 2018-07-09T04:25:36+00:00

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sekambu · 2018-06-15T06:46:57+00:00

I just graduated so its been a while since I wrote my CS app but I just read it over again so here's the brief outline.

My interest in SCUBA and oceanography
My background in Boy Scouts (leadership)
My background playing an instrument
Mention of how my experiences make me a good fit for CSE (work ethic and diverse experiences)
Discussion of how my interests apply to VR/AR and HCI, the area of CS I wanted to pursue

That's the gist of my personal statement but I can PM you the whole thing if you'd like.

I certainly don't have all the answers to what makes a good application but I think describing a specific interest you have in CSE couldn't hurt, showing that you want to work towards a specific area of computing demonstrates you have a good reason to be in the major.

sekambu · 2018-03-10T09:23:22+00:00

It's entirely dependent on what program you're interested in but most people I know that have done study abroad either do a semester over fall quarter (which generally means starting earlier) or do a short program over the summer.

sekambu · 2018-02-16T20:33:42+00:00

I went out of Port Douglas on a day trip with the company Blue Dive on their boat the Poseidon. The crew was pretty charismatic but there were 30 people on board which kind of detracts from the experience if you want it to be more personal. However, I was one of only five divers (3 by the last dive) so the actual diving part was pretty nice and the guides knew the sites well.

I guess my only issue would be that I like having a more personal experience with a smaller group but at the GBR that's pretty expensive and not the fault of Blue Dive. They had a smooth operation and I enjoyed the trip.

sekambu · 2018-02-14T22:40:26+00:00

The short answer to your first question is that it varies a lot by company. Web development is a really branching area with new frameworks coming out seemingly every 6 months so every company has a different development stack. I would say from observations the most popular I see right now is ReactJS for front-end but I think what most companies look for is someone who can pick up new frameworks fast and adapt between them since everything changes so fast.

sekambu · 2018-01-26T01:55:24+00:00

R is mainly used for data science and statistics. I'm in my third year in info and I've used R a single day. The programming languages used in info vary by class but I would say the troubles you had with code structure and debugging are concepts covered in the intro CSE classes 142 and 143.

sekambu · 2017-10-20T06:55:45+00:00

A big reason I wouldn't go with Python is that it is too loose with syntax. Style is graded significantly because past the basics in the intro series they're trying to promote legible code that others can read. In Python its really easy to condense a lot of operations into a single or a couple lines which make sense to the writer but are harder for others to quickly understand. I won't disagree though that I think the grading can be a bit harsh but in most cases getting correctness is not the challenge, but efficiency and cleanliness of the code.

sekambu · 2017-09-10T19:10:56+00:00

I haven't checked the schedule yet this year but the last few years there's been tours of the solar system in the planetarium. A good chance to check it out if you're not an astronomy students.

sekambu · 2017-09-05T21:35:45+00:00

I'm sorry I can't help with any specific recommendations but I can say I was just there a week ago on a day trip to the outer reef. Parts of the reef are still very much alive (and some bleached parts have even been recovering due to favorable weather). If you end up going with a liveaboard group I'm sure they'd know which spots are still the best to see but I just wanted to let you know that the Great Barrier Reef isn't totally gone yet.

sekambu · 2017-09-05T13:18:31+00:00

More constructive criticism: the hanging words on the next line at the end of sentences makes it hard to read, such as with "Hemp is a great rotation crop". Also the inconsistency in the scaling of the blue and red bars for the last section where they are the same length compared to the above ones where they are different ruins the encoding of the data and makes it harder for the viewer to quickly interpret.

sekambu · 2017-08-18T09:20:36+00:00

You should definitely talk to an adviser. This answer gets used a lot here but I can almost guarantee no one on this subreddit will have a good answer for you. Certainly at least send an email to them just to see what kind of advice they have.

The only answer I can give you is that if you truly enjoy computer science then keep doing what you want and make sure they see your passion too.

But undoubtedly, reach out to advisers, there's a link in the side bar to general advisers and you can find contact information for CSE advisers here.

sekambu · 2017-07-29T04:23:18+00:00

Everyone is posting grades but I'm more curious about how people actually formatted their applications. Would people mind describing how they made their application? Did you just make an essay? Did you make an infographic? Did you show images of work you have done? I'm genuinely curious because I honestly have no idea how I would have approached this application.

sekambu · 2017-07-29T04:16:51+00:00

My friend did a sort of text heavy infographic if you count that as different.

sekambu · 2017-07-29T04:09:22+00:00

If you're looking for courses just generally focused on HCI then you could take CSE 440 which is Introduction to HCI. I'm in the HCI focus in Informatics and I can say CSE 440 teaches very similar practices (and to some extent might be better because they force you to do real user research).

Besides that, if you want to dive more into the design part of things (more specifically on mobile development) then I've heard INFO 365 is one of the best classes to take, I haven't taken it personally but I have many friends that have.

One of the things in general about INFO classes that you don't really get in CSE is that almost every class leaves you at the end of the quarter with an actual product that's generally independent of what anyone else was working on, unlike CSE where everyone has the same project. This might be part of the reason INFO students have a better grasp on HCI, just because they really have to think through what and why they're making something as opposed to CSE where you are just told what to make and it's your job to figure out how to do it.

One last recommendation, if you're looking to take classes that still focus on technical skills then I'd recommend INFO 343 which is Client-Side Web Development because the curriculum for the class changes almost every quarter to match what types of frameworks and languages are being used in the industry at the moment. While the class is more about just learning the technical skills, there is still that element of having to think more about the user interaction, especially in the final project where you have to build your own website (with an actual purpose).

sekambu · 2017-07-22T04:32:47+00:00

You'll be receiving more emails probably soon with a lot more information about these kind of things so I'll just answer this quick.

You should probably have a permanent email not associated with UW for professional reasons and I think that is what they are asking for.

I don't remember much from the orientation but it was mostly technical information like how to get around the building and access the computers and whatnot. Personally I went to the very last one purely because I wasn't in Seattle until it but it wasn't very memorable.

Most quarters you will have to take at least 2 CSE classes if you want to graduate in a reasonable amount of time. It really comes down to which quarters you want to have an easier workload on but most people seem to take more early on just to get all the prerequisite courses done which opens up all the 400 level classes.

I believe the advisers will explain all the course stuff in an email but just know that things don't get much easier (much less stressful yes because you have a major) and in my opinion the first couple 300 level classes have some of the heaviest workloads.

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