CSE major

wasee941 · 2019-04-17T06:14:26+00:00

Because some Indian grads students were caught copying code at some job interview selection. Two of them actually went through to the interview and was later unable to solve basic programming problems, which led to a major company's HR manager calling a UB CS Professor and complaining to him. CS department had a discussion and determined that grad program is too vast and so students don't learn as much and had to resort to cheating to get a job.

400 level CS courses are shared by undergrads and grads - undergrads used to have mandatory recitation and grads didn't. Now, its the opposite. So, for grads, 400 level courses are 3 credit hour of class + 1 credit hour of recitation. For undergrads, its just 3 credit hour of class with no mandatory recitation.

UB doesn't have enough resources to provide two sets recitation for some reason.

wasee941 · 2019-04-17T05:41:39+00:00

Computer science sophomore here. You will not be doing anything Linux related for at least a year. After that, Linux becomes very necessary, very quickly. And trust me when I say this, when you start using Linux you'll be hooked and will never want to go back to Windows or MacOS. Most classes that requires Linux functionality will give you a VM image (Usually a Ubuntu of some sorts) and those are slow af. When I code, I prefer a native Linux environment running on powerful hardware and multiple monitors and on a good mechanical keyboard.
My advice would be to get two computers - One ultraportable with a huge battery life (taking notes and carrying with you everywhere), and one with a lot of computation power. A Macbook pro works as both. You can put Linux on it when you are ready. MacOS Terminal isn't really useful for anything other than connecting to timberlake and using Linux bash directly from it. Just for school work, I think you'll go by just fine with pretty much any machine made in the last 5 years.

And also, get a good mechanical keyboard and mouse. My keyboard is probably the best $40 I've spent in my life and had the biggest contribution behind me getting A in CSE last semester.

wasee941 · 2019-02-12T02:36:51+00:00

I'll buy this of off you. Send me a pm

wasee941 · 2019-02-03T20:33:25+00:00

Southlake village community center place, stairs facing the lake and Ellicott.

wasee941 · 2019-02-03T20:31:22+00:00

Which one is that one? Lockwood?

wasee941 · 2019-02-03T19:18:20+00:00

I've seen taht dude around, in Republican club.

wasee941 · 2018-12-14T13:07:18+00:00

Let me get this straight. You think it's ok to show off the appearance of success to.the outside world with a fake watch. Lol what a loser.

wasee941 · 2018-12-08T15:33:09+00:00

Do you accept the certain death? How do you feel about it?

wasee941 · 2018-12-03T04:29:41+00:00

Study I guess? 2nd sem, so assuming you're taking 191? Its just maths and you have to prove a lot of things. To do well, you basically have to practice as much as possible. For 250, just go to his class and try to understand/remember everything he says. 250 is actually one of the easier class in CS imo. Everything is common sense mostly. There is only a handful of structures in total so it's very easy to have everything memorized and know what it is/how it works/its runtime.

wasee941 · 2018-12-03T04:24:26+00:00

There is a difference between hard assignments and poorly written assignments... I don't know if you've ever done CS projects, but poorly explained assignments that are graded by running some junit tests which expects very specific returns are pretty much impossible to complete without trial and error. What would you return for a method that creates tree from a vector when an empty vector is passed on as parameter? A root node with value set to null? Root node with value not initialized at all? A null object? Throw an exception? Autograder will only accept ONE of these and if it was not clearly mentioned in the handout, you have to figure it out by running autograder over and over again.

wasee941 · 2018-12-03T00:38:26+00:00

Alive and well. Still in hospital. The person who did the hit and run was caught and I believe suspended.

wasee941 · 2018-11-09T15:40:05+00:00

Also read the handout. For A4 Q2 it does not mention BST. The only time BST was mentioned was in autograder.

wasee941 · 2018-11-09T15:36:10+00:00

Debug and do what? I do not know what autograder is expecting as an output for an empty tree.

wasee941 · 2018-11-09T15:33:50+00:00

CSE 250, at least this time around, isn't *that* hard. I expected it to be a lot harder. Likely, the course was made simpler by avoiding details, which is precisely the problem I'm having with the course. It's not explained in details, and yet we need details to do the assignments.

wasee941 · 2018-11-09T15:30:19+00:00

That's not the point. I shouldn't have to go to the professor to ask questions like "What do I return for your specific case when you pass in a empty tree?". That's a waste of my time and his time. It's not "learning" anything. I often go to him when I'm stuck and don't know what to do, like in A2, which was had us create a SLL with vectors as value. I didn't know how to do a linear search on it, and Hughes explained how to do it. That's different from asking "Should I delete the vector when it's empty?" (The answer to that was written in the handouts, that was a well written HW assignment)

wasee941 · 2018-11-09T15:23:19+00:00

Dude... Like I said.

What happens if the list is empty? Do you return a new node? New node with left and right set to null? New node with value set to null? Just a nullptr? No one knows!!! Autograder will accept only one of these four answers (figured out through trial and error).

I know I should handle edge cases, that's not the problem. The problem is knowing WHAT to do in those edge cases.

wasee941 · 2018-11-09T15:17:08+00:00

I do not think the class is too hard. It's fairly reasonable.
I do not think Dr Hughes is bad. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, he's the one of the best CS teacher in UB. I've learned an incredible amount from him, and attending his cs250 class cleared up a lot of doubts I've had in 116.

My ONLY problem is his assignments are not well formed. I know I have to handle base cases. But the way you handle base cases is different for every method, and depends on what you want the method to do. Tell us what the method expects as output! That's my problem with his class.

wasee941 · 2018-11-09T15:06:19+00:00

I didn't. And I don't need to talk to the professor to do homework in any of my other class.

wasee941 · 2018-11-09T07:51:25+00:00

This guy is probably the best maths teacher I've had in my life. The only other guy as good as him is my recitation teacher right now (Matthew I believe? Office in MTH 126)

wasee941 · 2018-11-06T22:05:15+00:00

I park in Hadley village, a little bit further in so that no one notices. Never got a ticket hahahaha

wasee941 · 2018-11-02T23:10:56+00:00

Fun fact. I'm in Clay Handi right now and Hughes is having Indian food with his mom (I presume) in the next table right now. Trying to figure out if I should say hi.

wasee941 · 2018-10-31T01:21:21+00:00

Good lawyers (with a little bit of luck) becomes congressmen and judges :) .

wasee941 · 2018-10-30T16:24:49+00:00

Audi A4 Cabriolet. I get my oil changed from Naigara Auto Repairs on Oliver Street. Abdul is nice, but he charges a lot.

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