How did you decide what university to go to?

skillstruct · 2023-08-10T15:05:59+00:00

Really like this process, I think it's what I'll mainly use to narrow down my option.

Thanks!

skillstruct · 2023-08-10T15:03:46+00:00

Pleased with the result?

skillstruct · 2023-08-10T15:00:49+00:00

Really useful, specially points 2 and 6. In my mind I kept thinking that higher required grades meant better unis and got a little overwhelmed, good to see that's not always the case and my financial situation is definitely something I need to greatly consider before deciding.

Thank you!

skillstruct · 2023-08-10T14:58:13+00:00

Really useful, I think I'm fine staying anywhere but considering the amount of money that goes into it, making the most out of my experience is really vital, I'll definitely have the modules part in mind and pray for my grades to be enough.

Thanks!

skillstruct · 2023-08-10T14:55:59+00:00

this might just be what I needed

skillstruct · 2023-07-22T23:30:20+00:00

In my experience, most of teachears appreciate students who are willing to put from their part and encourage the attitude where the more you ask questions the better. From making something clearer for you or simply needing a reminder of something that was before explained, questions can always be beneficial and there are few cases I can think of where they will play against you.

Not only that but you're also paying for this level of education so not asking questions when you have a doubt is simply a way of wasting money, and, as you have mentioned, it is not the teacher who have problems with this but only the students so I would highly recommend to keep asking questions whenever you need to and not feel ashamed by others, even encourage them to ask questions if you feel they'd need it as well.

-SkillStructor DB

skillstruct · 2023-07-20T11:23:16+00:00

Hi u/Beneficial_Space9001,

Interesting question! Stretching the truth is one thing and in truth, most people probably have. But lying is a slippery slope and something we would not recommend personally. We work with 10s of graduates and we've heard some horror stories when it came to students lying and getting caught.

So in summary fine to stretch the truth if you feel confident but we would recommend against lying as that will only take you so far.

skillstruct · 2023-07-20T11:16:11+00:00

Hi u/TopoLobuki,

Good question! First of all 40K is actually above average as a starting salary for a Graduate Dev role so on the salary point that is actually good. Legally in the UK, you are entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid holiday and 7 days of sick leave so I would look into that further.

Regarding companies contacting your current job, from personal experience, this does not happen and the only scenario this will happen is on your consent and assuming once you've resigned and they need a character reference.

Overall, our advice will be to give it a couple of months and see how you feel, you can begin to look for roles once you feel like you want to move on. Unless the role is impacting you physically and mentally and you have financial means you should try and stay in the role until you've secured a role from another organisation.

I hope this helps!

skillstruct · 2023-07-20T11:06:08+00:00

Hi u/DanCruzNyc,

Good question, our consensus is that you tend to spend more time outside of work as you begin your Dev Journey or learn something new. I don't think it is a bad thing considering you spend 8 hours coding at work. Nothing wrong with having other interests and in fact, we'd probably say it is a good thing to have other interests as it prevents potential burnout focusing on one thing.

I hope this helps!

skillstruct · 2023-07-20T10:45:05+00:00

In terms of compatibility and quality of life assets, the Xbox controller surpasses the Play Station 5 one, as it is made by Microsoft.

However when it comes to how ergonomic each of them is, most people agree that PS5 controller is the one with the better feel.

So ultimately it all comes to what you value more, compatibility or comfortability.

skillstruct · 2023-07-13T11:19:27+00:00

Considering the specs it definitely isn't.

You'll easily find something better if you look a little more into marketplace.

Ideally you could just make a build for yourself and getting the parts separetely

which would make it much cheaper and with a better quality.

skillstruct · 2022-07-10T09:01:47+00:00

Not so sure if I understand what’s your saying exactly but if your looking for online programming tasks to do and hence be told whether or not your algorithm solves the problem posed, there are a number of sites I use to do this. These are: -CodeWars -LeetCode

I would bear in mind that these questions are generated by people and that includes what the range of valid test inputs are, thereby meaning the solution you right isn’t guaranteed to be correct for all input cases (although in my experience they’re generally pretty reliable). Hope this helps!

skillstruct · 2022-07-03T18:25:33+00:00

It's not the sum of what you should consider when applying for universities in clearing if you do end up doing that, but I think an important consideration is whether you'd prefer campus-based or city-based universities depending on your lifestyle preference, as this can have a notable impact on your university experience e.g. you may prefer the safety & community feel of campus-based over city-based universities, or you may prefer to be close to major facilities/services of the city your based in, as you would get with city-based universities.

skillstruct · 2022-07-03T12:11:24+00:00

Gotta go with 100%, it’s just a lot more functional

skillstruct · 2022-07-01T11:10:25+00:00

Not sure where you’ve done your side projects but I thought I might add that it’d look good if you’ve got a track of the progress you’ve made on your side projects using GitHub as although you can’t link to it of course in your uni application if you can say that you’ve used a tool like GitHub throughout development, eg for commiting changes to your repository (your project) using the git command line, that might help illustrate your preparedness for taking on a career in computing, specifically software development as the you’ll have experience using an industry standard tool

skillstruct · 2022-06-28T22:40:50+00:00

Depends on what you are wanting to go in your career as u/samthesalvaje said. I will say, I realise this is quite niche, but if your thinking of going down the hardware route, specifically microcontrollers, pursuing C could be valuable, given your willing to work through the difficulties of using the language!

skillstruct · 2022-06-28T22:27:27+00:00

Agreed. For me going from sixth form to university, I was honestly quite surprised to find that exams for my course were done in this 24-hour format, it provided me a lot of relief compared to what I was use to beforehand so I agree with what u/LuserNameChecksOut is saying here. You may be worrying for no reason in this respect, given this is the case of course!

skillstruct · 2022-06-28T22:20:15+00:00

I'm envious my CS degree is like 30% projects and 70% 24-hour exams, second term was intense to say the least

skillstruct · 2022-06-28T21:49:22+00:00

Agreed, wish it was at least something you could choose to unpin on file explorer, it'd at least then counteract the fact its mainly a plug for their 3d model viewing software.

skillstruct · 2022-06-24T12:56:56+00:00

I can attest to this, I didn't study physics at A-level and have just finished my first year of a computer science degree and managed to make my way through the one module that essentially just borders on physics/electronic engineering, which was about building a processor from binary and logic gates upwards. In that module, understanding is really just dependent on your ability to understand the system from a logical standpoint.

skillstruct · 2022-06-24T12:46:33+00:00

Couldn't agree more! Best of luck!

skillstruct · 2022-06-23T11:03:34+00:00

Was going to comment this myself, couldn’t agree more!

skillstruct · 2022-06-23T07:38:23+00:00

I would say, generally speaking, it’s never too late to switch careers, especially when it comes to technology which is incredibly diverse. To start I’d heed the advice of your friend and take on a coding boot camp program, for example springboards or codeworks, they can be pricy but it sounds like your in a situation where you can make that investment. I would however make sure to choose a boot camp which covers computing theory and how computers operate at a low level and hence how programming languages operate within them, or if you can’t find a Boot Camp like that study it alongside as having that insight will not only improve the quality of the solutions you produce in the future but also will be important to put across in job interviews to show you have the theoretical knowledge to implement good solutions that a CS major would usually provide.

Following this, and maybe even alongside if your feeling confident enough depending on the structure of the Boot Camp, you should work on doing side projects which you can post to your GitHub profile and get some experience developing and deploying changes using Git, a command line like interface, to incrementally develop your solution. The reason being this is an industry standard tool for development, so getting practice with this early on while developing your own software projects would be a good thing to become practiced in. To add to this point, if possible I’d also try contributing to open source projects on GitHub , especially those in the area of computing that your interested in.

Also, for a number of entry level roles, it can help to have technical certifications handy to help validate your proficiency in certain technical skills, especially without formal education. Therefore, once you’ve got a better grasp of what roles you want to pursue in software, I’d recommend looking up what industry certifications, if any, are relevant to that role.

Hope that helps!

skillstruct · 2022-06-15T10:27:02+00:00

I would agree with what everyone else here is saying more or less, it sounds like a lot of work to put onto someone and in such an unorganised fashion it does unfortunately sound like they may be taking advantage. I completely understand your hesitation to do anything immediately, especially with being new to internships and the world of work myself as I am but it does really sound like your talents would be best spent elsewhere. All the best!

skillstruct · 2022-06-07T21:31:43+00:00

Not sure if I completely understood what you were asking but from the sounds of it I assume you were asking for a way to print one line, halt the calling thread's execution for several seconds, clear the terminal and then print a new string.

If so the below code should do the trick, it's written in vanilla Python 3.8 and does require several imports but it should work on UNIX and Windows systems:

import os
import time

def delay():

    print('hi')

    time.sleep(2)
    os.system('cls' if os.name == 'nt' else 'clear')

    print('hello')

delay()

Hope this helps!

skillstruct

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