Yeah, I'm not great in statistics, but was thinking about getting into it more for the creative side of data visualization.

Mobile development is also something that piques my interest, but I'm not sure what I really want to build and how viable the career is now

anyone have experience with Unity/GameDev ?

just finished brackeys beginner series and im kinda like wtf rn

Intern season is taking a s*** on me.

Top 20 school and I'm still getting d***ed on these leet code problems smh

Lern data structures in python and then just start doing leet code questions asap tbh if the main thing you care about is getting a sick job lol

Mediums or Hard ones?

idk if anyone here would be interested, but I'm building an open source game system in JS with some friends. It's still pretty early in development and the code is a mess, but you can check us out on github: github.com/homegamesio

We also have a website: homegames.io

Mostly hards but even some mediums

Which companies are you aiming for in particular? Besides Dropbox, most FAANG level companies ask a mix of easy and mediums. HFT firms will ask hard questions though

Credit Karma asked me a leet code hard on my phone screen and I've been pretty scarred ever since

leetcode.com/problems/basic-calculator

I tend to stuck on questions that are not obviously algorithmic. Like I can usually solve problems that involve using a hashmap or sliding window etc but if it involves more than that I get pretty stuck.

Any tips?

thought hackathon season was going to be dead but one from MIT came up. def going to that :pog:

Don't really have tips since I'm just starting the leetcode grind. My recommendations would be to do Blind's top 75 questions, review data structures and algorithms with interview cake and HackerRank's Youtube Channel, and just get comfortable doing leetcode medium problems

There's a hackathon in Pittsburgh called Steelhacks that's happening soon, I believe

oh s*** word ill check that out

ive been waiting for the upenn one but they havent said anything yet. plus idk if we could get in as a team, apparently they have like a 30% acceptance rate just for the hackathon lol

is codeacademy still a good place to learn beginner coding

Where's a good place to learn programming? Codecademy seems good but it's kind of expensive.

youtube. what language?

Think I want to start with Javascript

idk any javascript channels
so, go with python instead

this guy is amazing.
youtube.com/watch?v=YYXdXT2l-Gg&list=PL-osiE80TeTskrapNbzXhwoFUiLCjGgY7

im learning javascript thru my web dev classes (and html/css)

Just came in the mail.

Let’s get it

Nice. I assume you're interested in type theory. Are you into haskell or any functional programming languages? Have you heard of coq?

Yes! I’m studying type theory, though honestly didn’t know much about it before 4 months ago. I’ve always found Haskell kind of fascinating because of how elegant the code can be, but never got around to learning it. Though I’m taking a class rn that uses SML tho so fairly similar.

And yes, actually Coq uses dependent type theory at its core which is what my thesis is going to be on. I’m working on trying to make dependent types more usable for the everyday programmer - right now they’re mostly used in things like theorem provers, but trying to write code is really arduous because you have to essentially prove sections of your code using a really complex type system. In fact, the result is literally mathematically proven code, but like I said it’s very hard to write.

Something we’re looking into is if we can make things a bit easier for programmers by mixing in dynamically typed code in the same program. So instead of having to really rigorously annotate every piece of code, you can leave certain parts untyped and only write the parts you need certified (provably correct) using dependent types. Hopefully this means that using these dependent types can be more accessible, because they really are very powerful!

Dang, nice man. This is a little over my head, but do you have any suggestions for getting into type theory?

EDIT: So you're trying to mix dynamic types and statically types together in a language. I know Python is dynamically typed, but you're essentially trying to have optional static typing that I believe Python does offer?

The types and programming languages book at the bottom (Pierce) is a pretty good intro to actual type theory. Also just learning Haskell is itself a pretty solid intro to understanding it in a more applied sense.

And yes it’s called gradual typing, the idea of having typed code (checked by the compiler) and untyped code (figured out at runtime) in the same program.