Ok so this is going to be a post about me and what I'm doing, if you aren't interested in me...I fudge it I don't have to do this preliminary explanation.

Anyway, finished up my exams a few days ago, nothing too bad, I feel like finals is where the professors soften up (or maybe I get better?) and make doable exams. I didn't feel that I did too bad on most, but I do know that I screwed up my comp sci one due to massive allergies (and the headache to go along with it), oh well! Other than that, linear algebra totally came together for me while I was in the exam and I found out there was a lot you could use it for, interesting. My stats course was also pretty hilarious due to a TA strike, the prof had to make it all multiple choice, felt I did pretty good in that one too but I fudgeing couldn't read graphs for spoon.

Yeah the problem wasn't probabilities, or learning how to use analysis of variance, linear regression and spoon, nooooo, it was reading a fudgeing graph. fudge.

Enough of that, so I found out I also got my co-op interview (ok, seriously it's not a big deal because it doesn't mean anything about getting employed), only thing I'm worried about is my minimal community involvement. I think I only volunteered at like...2 events? Yeah, that's gonna be hard to explain, also the fact that my marks aren't stellar or that I don't have many computing projects under my belt (or AT ALL REALLY).

Ah fudge I have absolutely no computer programming skill, so I don't know how I can demonstrate my passion with "I like computahs HURR".

I'm taking summer courses of course, since I'm falling behind in my major (I switched from chemistry to comp sci) but I'm actually none too bothered by that. I decided to get a head start in one of my courses (data structures and algorithms) and...fudge.

This course is pants on head confusing, or at least from what I'm getting so far.

Supposedly they assume that you can figure out C++ in 2 seconds (ok that shouldn't be hard if you've went over spoon like java), not only that, proofs for algorithms and big-O notation? Arrrgh (if you haven't noticed, it's more math proofs, YAY)!

I digress though, it's not rocket science stuff, it's something where you try to prove or describe an algorithm efficiency by notation, so, you can choose the best algorithm into solving a problem and how it scales as data sets get larger and what not.

Yeah, fun stuff, I hope that one day I can work my way to becoming at least competent...oh well.

Also! I've been trying to work out my drawing of figures, but I find that I usually get proportions and view points incorrect. I guess my grasp on 3D is bad or my anatomy hasn't been thoroughly looked through, so I'm deciding on looking at anatomy so I can try to get better at that, I'll post results about that sometime later.

(This post was last modified: 21/04/2012 05:45 PM by Tetris999.)

(This post was last modified: 21/04/2012 05:40 PM by weterr123.)

(21/04/2012 05:28 PM)weterr123 Wrote:  You mentioned co-op.... so you're British?

And what exams? GCSE's? A levels?

You said fudge a lot. lol.

EDIT: my bad, i can see you said you were falling behind in your major, sooo.... university? Done a degree?

No I'm a Canadian-American currently residing in Canada.

Exams being the finals they have over here, don't know how to elaborate further on that :P. Like end term tests, blah blah.

No I haven't done any degree, I'm just a stupid teenager that knows squat, I'm currently finishing my second year and moving on to my third.

and I'm considering on changing majors...again, but it'll be something that EXPANDS on comp sci.

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Also for writing a lot, I finished that in 3-5 minutes, so it's never really hard for me to type out.

(This post was last modified: 21/04/2012 09:56 PM by Tetris999.)

(21/04/2012 05:52 PM)ProperBritish Wrote:  I would highly recommend, if you have time, learning C# or Java before doing C++. It is a lot more forgiving and is a great intro to programming in C-Style languages and object-oriented programming.

That's what my course this year was about, but thanks proper! :)

And yeah, I found out it was pretty similar to what I was doing in java, cept for all that memory allocation and what not, looks to be a bitch.

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Also my biggest gripe really isn't omega or O notation, but theta notation, that thing looks annoying to prove, every time. :/ (it's basically prove O and omega, but it's still pretty crazy, I need to read more into this I guess...)

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(21/04/2012 10:21 PM)Cirehpsa Wrote:  I'm doing C++ right now lol.

I better catch up with you then :P

(21/04/2012 06:46 PM)Kuu Wrote:  I did Java last year, VB.NET this year.

High school or uni?

I find it strange that a university would teach Visual Basic.