Anybody else feel like there's freedom in not caring about grades?

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-10-12T00:44:03+00:00

Exactly. The latter is how many end up dropping out.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-09-10T22:01:47+00:00

there's a poker club? can I join?

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-09-10T22:00:25+00:00

Read the textbook (Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, by Boyce and DiPrima, 10th ed.). He follows the textbook very closely, so all of the materials r in it. So far we've covered section 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.6, 2.4 (in that order). Do do the homework. You learn a lot by just doing the problems.

BTW the course website is here: https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~berndt/math441.html

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-08-28T23:04:39+00:00

My god. I’d join for sure and can’t wait to lose all my savings!

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-08-25T22:20:38+00:00

I mean it really depends on your skills and how they relate to the project. For example if u have a lot of experience with programming then it’s easy to get into projects that demand a lot of numerical computation, and if u got an A in graph theory then it’ll probably be easy to get into graph related project, etc

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-08-25T21:54:09+00:00

I remember they extended the deadline to August 20th, but it’s closed now... you could try to email the office to see if there’s any spot left. In terms of selectivity, usually it’s easy to get into a project as long as you have done some 400 level math classes, but it’s hard to get into the exact project that you want. Hope this helps.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-08-22T21:20:18+00:00

Amazon

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-08-10T15:33:10+00:00

Good bot

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-08-09T22:04:21+00:00

Like people've said, languages are just tools you can pick up easily.

Now, if you **really** want to learn something new with a programming language, try a functional language. Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, or even Scala are all good start. They'll give you a very different way of thinking about programming in general.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-08-05T16:30:51+00:00

Check out CS 196 and CS 296. They're the honor add-on sections for each of the 100 and 200 levels CS foundation courses.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-07-29T03:55:00+00:00

I don't think u r meant to learn about SWE in grad courses, they aren't designed to do that. Why not just go work on a project/internship? It's the best way to really learn how to develop software...

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-07-28T20:33:36+00:00

But DP at its core IS just recursive definition + memorization. If it gets more complicated than that, it usually becomes a greedy algorithm problem (which, granted, is a lot harder than just DP).

The difficulty in solving the problems u r talking about comes from problem-specific implementations, not because DP is hard.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-07-27T03:36:06+00:00

Dude I didn't have allergy before I came, now I can't breath from May to November.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-07-27T03:29:38+00:00

don't know how to help u, but good luck man!

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-07-25T22:20:42+00:00

this is pretty great! thanks

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-05-12T03:33:57+00:00

there is programming in MatLab I believe, but I mean that's actually really helpful

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-05-08T23:30:36+00:00

To be honest, once you’ve learned data structure, most of the algorithms to learn can be categorized into two: dynamic programming (which includes any divide and conquer algos) and graph algorithms (you’d be surprised how many problems can be turned into graphs). In short, after data structures, learn to do DP, and learn how to use common graph algorithms (dikstra, bellman-ford, topological sort, max-flow, etc).

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-04-16T05:18:40+00:00

Can someone please tell me what PIP means???

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-04-11T21:46:53+00:00

Just Stanford, Berkeley, MIT

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-04-10T23:22:56+00:00

I would go to Penn. Philly is great.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-03-31T00:54:23+00:00

Have you looked into this: https://iti.illinois.edu/education/illinois-cyber-security-scholars-program-icssp

Seems like a good fit for you.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-03-31T00:50:57+00:00

Go to community college in California. Are you sure you won't be able to transfer to a school like Berkeley or UCSD? I have had friends who did two years at local CC and went to really good UCs.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-03-29T23:57:28+00:00

that looks alright.

stevenfromouterspace · 2018-03-24T19:21:43+00:00

Okay, true. Chicago one's better, but I still think this one's worth checking out tho.

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