Thanks, im back working retail again after quarantine

But im currently trying to study

structures and interpolations of computing systesms

hands on machine learning with scikit-learn, keras and tensorflow

and now this, too.

What exactly is your end goal?

Right now end game would be a job somewhere in data science. But rn i just have a bachelors in math and am trying to study up on the topics that interest me

When the answer to your homework problem requires knowing the answer to a previous problem<<<<

Bruh I've never seen something as hard as the existence proof for SVD in my life

Proof involves f***ing topology I was not planning on going that deep lmao

How do you guys not forget the syntax and such of other languages while you're learning a new one? I'm currently in a data structures class (we're using python), and i'm finding myself slowly forgetting all the c++ stuff I learned last semester =/

yeah i forgot all that s*** too just do little projects on the side

If I have to code in a language I haven't used in a while, first thing I do is look up some documentation and examples of that language & try to follow along. Usually it'll take me 30min-1hour but I'd much rather do that then keep looking stuff up as I code

I'd also recommend looking at some problem solutions on LeetCode if you can. You can look at the same conceptual solution in a variety of languages & check out the differences.

wtf is this Alice s*** course about to be a breeze

Switching from EE to CS god bless

MS really stepped their game up with powershell

i remember it being an ungodly piece of s*** back in like 2010 now it's actually caught up to bash

had to use it recently cause my mac broke and i had to use my roommates laptop for a technical assessment for a job lmao

transitioning to using it was surprisingly smooth compared to the last time i had to use it

job search highkey been rough

starting a minor in CS this year, it interests me so i figured id at least learn some of the basics and general ideas and decide if i wanna pursue more

any tips on where to start? also should i upgrade my computer? i have no experience in CS so all of it is relatively new to me

What positions and locations are you targeting?

On where to start with what?

any tips on where to start?
experiment and figure out what you want to do early, then specialize with that. want to do web development? learn HTML/CSS/JS/JS framework of your choice. gamedev? C, C++, C#, maybe even something like lua. databases? learn a flavor of SQL, java, python, etc.

also should i upgrade my computer?
probably not. coding and development are pretty lightweight tasks (relatively speaking) and basically any computer made past-2010 should do you fine. only thing i'd say is a borderline requirement is get something that's at least 1080p (for screen real estate) and has an SSD.

last job i had was as an SDET. quit without having anything lined up (foolish i know). been trying to move towards front end development cause thats what i enjoy most, and have experience with doing development at my last job w/ react and typescript. based in the denver area

Eventually after remembering and forgetting it enough it will kinda stick. Or you will at least remember again really fast

Database is so annoying idk how people can love doing that s***

Feel that way about web dev tbh back end >>

Yep i hate web dev too f*** that

would app development be considered gamedev? my interest is mainly in apps/phone games or some sort of service (something like dropbox, although definitely not as complicated to begin with)

could be other way around (gamedev part of app development). i don't know too much about mobile development, but last time i checked android had it's own flavor of java for most application development (it's a pretty chaotic and rapidly developing scene though iirc), iOS apps were normally written in swift and C.

but i mostly just write scripts in command shells these days so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

whats your experience with CS?

im doing a minor so not all the courses but i have to take the intro CS courses this year, do you know if they usually are focused on coding or is it more math oriented?