i tried finding, only found diode zone.
Are there other instances that i do not know?
A brief background to explain my situation. I am currently 28 years old. I dropped out of college a few years ago to put my wife through pharmacy school. She graduates next spring. She told me that she would support me as soon as she finished school, so that I can finish my degree if I would like to. This would put me graduating at about 33-34.
My question is, would it be better at my age to just start teaching myself and not worry about the degree? Or, would it be better to start teaching myself, and also go to school for CS when she graduates?
I already have taught myself a decent amount of C#. The nature of my work is 12 hour shifts and I work about 4-6 days a week depending on the week. So I haven’t had much down time between that and other obligations to really teach myself in the past.
Unfortunately, I don’t have many people that I can ask in my personal life. So I’m hoping to get some good feedback from you guys! Thanks!
EDIT:
Wow. I am completely blown away by all the feedback! This is so much to read through and process! I am genuinely excited to read everything. I glanced over some stuff while eating dinner. Looks like very solid advice!
You guys seriously exceeded all expectations! This is a decision that I still have some time to make, being that she is in her last year of school. However, I will continue learning C# and building what skills I can with the little time I have.
Thank you guys so much for the help. Like I said above, I don’t have many people I can ask in my personal life! So you guys really filled a void there for me.
❤️❤️
I hope this isn't a stupid question. It seems to be increasingly more common for children to learn computer science from a younger age in their school. I think this is incredibly awesome and honestly definitely needed considering how tech savvy our society is turning.
But, will this have a negative effect for the people who work in tech or are planning to work in tech who don't have a computer science degree?
So all I see about computer science is how much money it brings it or that it's a good minor to have in GIS. That's cool and all, but I wouldn't want to take a minor just because I'd be more profitable in the long run. I've had the opportunity to see how important programming is, though.
I worked at a local government office for a summer and got to see how scripted tools could be designed for a specific use. There's also a small instance like copy-pasting a script and knowing how to change it to your specifications. Or use in calculators. But really I just want to explorer making tools to help me in completing my maps.
How has CS helped you in your career? Do you recommend a minor, or maybe just take a class or two?
A lot of people in my institute, are involved in web development, full stack development, backend development, machine learning, data science. It's happening to an extent that even the courses offered in my institute are mostly ML/DL related. A very few people are interested in core domains. Why is everyone favouring these over the core jobs. Will there will be no opportunity for systems or networks guys or just programers in C in the future?
Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science
Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big or small for AAW. In this thread you can ask any science-related question! Things like: "What would happen if...", "How will the future...", "If all the rules for 'X' were different...", "Why does my...".
Asking Questions:
Please post your question as a top-level response to this, and our team of panellists will be here to answer and discuss your questions. The other topic areas will appear in future Ask Anything Wednesdays, so if you have other questions not covered by this weeks theme please either hold on to it until those topics come around, or go and post over in our sister subreddit /r/AskScienceDiscussion , where every day is Ask Anything Wednesday! Off-theme questions in this post will be removed to try and keep the thread a manageable size for both our readers and panellists.
Answering Questions:
Please only answer a posted question if you are an expert in the field. The full guidelines for posting responses in AskScience can be found here. In short, this is a moderated subreddit, and responses which do not meet our quality guidelines will be removed. Remember, peer reviewed sources are always appreciated, and anecdotes are absolutely not appropriate. In general if your answer begins with 'I think', or 'I've heard', then it's not suitable for /r/AskScience.
If you would like to become a member of the AskScience panel, please refer to the information provided here.
Past AskAnythingWednesday posts can be found here. Ask away!
Hi! I am currently doing a computer science bachelors degree at Malmö University and I am about to start writing my dissertation, and I am particularly interested in writing about blockchain technology and Ethereum. Me and my research partner are currently trying to figure out what to write about/research, and figured we could try to find any inspiration on this subreddit as we often see quite high-level discussion of the subject. If anyone has any ideas of any particular problem or area that they find interesting and worth researching, we would love to hear about it.
Finally. This week I took my final final, and turned in my capstone project for my computer science degree. It’s finally over.
I’ve been doing school work between pt and work and during lunch hours. If I didn’t get enough done, I’d go home after work and do more. I did this for 3 years to be able to finish using TA (had previous college credits and paid out of pocket if TA or FAFSA didn’t cover it). My goal was 1 assignment a day to stay ahead in case of any deployments or field exercises. I took 2 classes per semester bcuz 3 was too much to juggle.
It feels weird not having to stress about school work 24/7. I can finally enjoy my lunch breaks now.
This is my first semester as a grad student. I've been taking Computer Science courses with assignments that are group-based or project-based courses.
One thing I've noticed is a lot of the other graduate students I'm working with will just say "they don't code." Or they don't know pytorch for instance. And that's it. No one bothers with even trying to learn the necessary tools. Just, they don't work in it and won't touch it. Yet, everyone in this program wants to become an ML researcher.
Is this just the CS program? I understand not everyone's a Leet coder, and that's fine. Everyone's at a different phase of their learning. But I'm pretty tired of this general sentiment
R1: I recently found a medium article claiming that socialism was the causing factor behind China's economic development, not capitalism. For the sake of this response (and the context given by said Medium Article), socialism refers to state ownership and central planning while capitalism refers to private ownership and markets (not necessarily free ones).
This response won't focus on China's human rights abuses or critiques of Marxist theory in order to prevent the comments from going political- only to add context to and critique the economic claims made. This is my first R1 so I welcome improvements and suggestions!
>As the story is constantly told in western media, China was poor and communist, then they abandoned communism for capitalism, and then they had growth. Therefore, it is free market economics that made them the powerhouse they are today. This narrative is repeated endlessly. Even in articles that are not about the Deng Xiaoping reforms, they will still reiterate this as if it’s a well-known fact.
Oh great, a "consensus or agenda" type of poisoning the well. Economists don't repeat this narrative because "western media bad"- the vast majority of studies corroborate the claim. In fact, the vast majority of economists believe privatization to be beneficial in Eastern Europe- so why won't it apply to China as well?
For example, this study found out that the national wealth-income ratio increased from 350% in 1978 to 700% in 2015 because of the increase of private wealth. Despite the Chinese government owning a fair share of the properties in the country, private ownership definitely increased!
>The share of public property in national wealth declined from about 70% in 1978 to about 30% in 2015. More than 95% of the housing stock is now owned by private households, as compared to about 50% in 1978. Chinese corporations, however, are still predominantly publicly owned: close to 60% of Chinese equities belong to the government (with a small but significant rebound since 2009), 30% to private Chinese owners, and 10% to foreigners – less than in the US, and much less than in Europe (Figure 4).
Another [Stanford study](https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/public
... keep reading on reddit ➡Basically the title.
Most of the computer science books I read our saw have weird covers of animals, insects and things that have nothing to do with the subject discussed within the book itself.
For example, mechanical engineering books have more relevant covers such as gears, 3d illustration of a car engine etc. Whereas a computer science book will have a cover of a praying mantis, like... Wtf ?
Why is that?
And I don’t know shit, help😭
I know a few people graduating but barely know anything from their courses. But ever since the pandemic started it has been easier to cheat.
Now, I am not fully against cheating but imagine the extreme ends of the spectrum. A person that cheats all the way till graduation and barely knows anything, and another person who graduated but spent the time and effort to learn each topic without cheating.
It seems unfair imo
I searched and searched and still haven't been able to really figure out how NFTs are working behind the scenes. There is sooo much hype.
Could a developer please explain. I'd like to know -
- How are they created? Using which popular frameworks (any code snippets appreciated)
- Where is the media hosted? My understanding is that NFTs are really a record that your wallet owns this unique hash. But then how is that has linked to an image? And where is this image hosted? Follow up - can't anyone take this image host down and then that link between the hash and the image is lost.
Appreciate any elightenment without the hype. I am tired of 100th video about an influencer explaining NFTs as if they are the next gold with no context.
I would like to know more about theoretical part of computers. So are there any resources, books would be greatly benefited cause I am more like a Book guy, but other sources like YouTube and etc, would even be great.
Thx...
I'm a Saudi male married to my wife who is Yemeni. I have studied in the US for 9 years and went back to Saudi Arabia in 2018 to marry my gf. Both of us want to leave since we got married and live in a foreign country where they will be more accepting of our lifestyle. Both of us athiest and sick of pretending that we are following a religion we don't believe in. I really want to go back to the US and live there, but any other options would be considered. I have a bachelor degree in Computer Science from a US university with a 2 yrs work experience in Saudi Arabia. My wife has a degree in HR but with no experience..
I have been wanting to find some good videos that I can watch in my free time that are about cool computer science projects so I can learn more about new algorithms, and programs in a more leisure way instead of solely doing projects and reading documentation.
I'm interested in most anything related to Python, Data science, or back end development, but I'd really love to learn more about Machine learning algorithms if there are any good series about people working on machine learning algorithms.
Hi guys, I've decided to change my degree from mechanical engineering to a degree in computer science and my question is will it be fine if I enter the degree without any programming experience?
(This all depends on whether the university will exempt me from a year of foundation studies)
My friend told me we will be learning c++ and java which I have 0 experience in both and if I start studying from codecademy right now before entering school, I will only have about a month of time to learn as much as possible
So my question is is it fine to enter computer science degree without programming experience?
Adding new content every week!
Hi South Africa, young man here just got accepted for CompSci and ActSci, but i can't really decide between the two since I like them both
I'd like to ask based on your experience what's better between the two, state the advantages and disadvantages of each
I'd highly recommend your help, thank you ❤️
I've recently gotten my ATAR and I'm conflicted between UNSW, UTS and USYD. I wanna do Cyber Security but I don't mind doing software projects and so on. I don't really care about the research side of the degree moreover the practical skills taught along with just the general vibe and culture of the uni.
When you go to a doctor, a lawyer or a financial advisor it's not strange to get a senior professional like 55-65 yo, yet when you think of IT it's usually your typical 23-30 yo. I know a lot of the older programmers end up in leadership/CEO or teaching positions at college, but those positions have to be limited to only a small percentage right, what happens to the others?
With the cost of a computer science degree being so high, I'm often surprised that other computer science students are not leveraging the skills they are learning in class to start making money before they graduate. I'm not making this post to brag, but rather to show another fellow CS student a different perspective on paying for college.
First, as a disclaimer, this probably won't pay for your entire tuition, but I find it's often a better alternative to working minimum wage jobs as many other college students do.
I'll get straight to the point - if you're a computer science student, you can start leveraging your skills pretty early in your academic career by offering your services as a freelance software developer. I often recommend this to other computer science students looking to make money and not surprisingly, I usually get a response like this:
But I’m just learning to code. But I don’t know how to build websites. What if I can’t build what they want me to build? I’m a noob. I’m not qualified to do that yet. No one is going to hire a beginner. Why would they choose a beginner over a professional? What if I mess up? What if they don’t like my work?
Take it from someone that started building software for others just after taking their second programming class - You don't have to be the best developer nor do you have to know how to do everything to start offering your services as a freelance software developer.
In fact, the first job I got as a freelance software developer involved creating a command-line application for which I did not know how to do specific things. But that was ok because I realized that I could just learn what I didn't know as I was working on the project. I got paid $100/hr for that, which I put towards my school expenses. With that said, as I have taken up more freelance jobs and worked on more personal projects, I have gained more skills and expanded into other types of work such as web development and custom internal tool development.
Not too long ago, I landed a job that paid me $250/hr for web development. I'll leave the specifics of the job out for respect to the customer, however, the reason they were willing to pay me the premium (which as a disclaimer is not super common), is because they wanted something built fast. With the skills I have gained, I was able to deliver what they wanted and they walked away a happy customer. They even returned a few times with more work for me.
Freelance software development is
... keep reading on reddit ➡
I am not the OP. u/Laser_Lens_4 is the OP from r/blind.
[Rant] Math makes me resent sighted people
I don't like doing these, but I need to talk about my frustrations with people who actually get it. Maybe some good can come out of it. Maybe some blind math wiz will laugh and tell me I've done everything wrong and send me to a website that let's me do this all with perfect accessibility. so here goes.
I'm one week away from completing a remedial math course in community college here in the states. I'm tired, stressed, angry, and want it to end... oh, and I'm insane enough to pursue a computer science degree, so I've got years of math ahead. Let me tell you a bit about my math story as a blind woman.
I was terrible at math in grade school. In retrospect, it was probably because I spent so much effort on squinting at all the weird symbols that I had no time left to actually learn the content. Now that I'm in college and using a sight-free workflow, I'm actually getting it. The most surreal event so far is learning logarithms and understanding it easily whilst vividly remembering sitting in high school and being thoroughly confused.
So where's the rant? Well, the entire past 16 weeks have been an exercise in misery. So, I walk into class, introduce myself to the instructor, and listen to him talk about math for an hour and a half. I go home to try homework online. What do I find? Not LaTeX, not MathML, but some proprietary code on Cengage's website. It's not too bad at first, but mind you absolutely nobody showed me how to use this website, so the first week consisted of me aimlessly navigating by headings and form fields. Then we hit exponents and quadratics. NVDA straight up didn't read superscripts. Thus begins my first email chain bitching at disability workers and web devs. They tell me to use Firefox and Math Player with NVDA, so that means I have to switch browsers, install software, and count my lucky stars that I know how to use NVDA since they provided no instruction for that. Fine, right? Nope. I have to switch the math renderer on the website to MathML, oh and they had to create a duplicate course where everything had been made accessible. So you know, separate but equal... just like the 60's! But wait, there's more. I couldn't switch the renderer myself. I had to have a sighted
... keep reading on reddit ➡An exchange year to the USA make me want to go study aboard.
With the rising trend of China to be the world power, my family want me to go study in China, but after I did my research I am not quite sure I want to go study there.
The book Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio (haven't finish reading) also influence me to go study there, but I think I would miss the freedom of Capitalism country.
Please help me, thanks.
Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science
Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big or small for AAW. In this thread you can ask any science-related question! Things like: "What would happen if...", "How will the future...", "If all the rules for 'X' were different...", "Why does my...".
Asking Questions:
Please post your question as a top-level response to this, and our team of panellists will be here to answer and discuss your questions. The other topic areas will appear in future Ask Anything Wednesdays, so if you have other questions not covered by this weeks theme please either hold on to it until those topics come around, or go and post over in our sister subreddit /r/AskScienceDiscussion , where every day is Ask Anything Wednesday! Off-theme questions in this post will be removed to try and keep the thread a manageable size for both our readers and panellists.
Answering Questions:
Please only answer a posted question if you are an expert in the field. The full guidelines for posting responses in AskScience can be found here. In short, this is a moderated subreddit, and responses which do not meet our quality guidelines will be removed. Remember, peer reviewed sources are always appreciated, and anecdotes are absolutely not appropriate. In general if your answer begins with 'I think', or 'I've heard', then it's not suitable for /r/AskScience.
If you would like to become a member of the AskScience panel, please refer to the information provided here.
Past AskAnythingWednesday posts can be found here. Ask away!
)