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Travio
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This is a fair point Travio. I suppose it depends on the field you're in. When it comes to work that involves a certain level of creativity (music, drawing, 3D design) it can be simply difficult to work full time and not succumb to burn out. But I understand your opinion, some people just prefer stability of full-time. While I enjoy freedom, there are those worse weeks or months when you need to limit your expenses...
Even as full time, though, I get a lot of leeway; I'm technically lead developer for the guys, but most of us work from home and only come into the office to be free of distractions or for meetings (basically, I go in one day a week unless there's something that absolutely needs attention). It saves a lot of money and lets us actually have more people working than we technically have space for. And it leaves me plenty of time to work on my own stuff (in fact, since my major contribution to the most recent project is done, the only two people above me in the company are helping me work on getting my own company for other stuff up and running).
Working full time can, in the right circumstances, hand you just as much freedom as freelance work, with lots more security.
author=TravioHmm..if contracting is a worse situation then even working in a start-up, then maybe I should count my blessings...
As a contract worker in the comp sci/programming field, you're going to make a lot less than you're actually work in order to bid in under everyone else. It will also help with health care, insurance, etc.
Source: my own experience before I said fuck it and signed up full time with a start-up.
That said, taking a guaranteed full time position is also like a holy grail to people in the field; so many places are switching to contract work, it's very difficult to find a full time position.
author=Mr_DetectiveI know it's not a very natural thing for a CS student to not take any formal Calculus classes, but when I think about it, it's not the most necessary thing in the world.
How could you not take any Calculus? :O
I mean, we've studied a decent amount of discrete mathematics and linear algebra so far, but very little in the way of calculus - but I don't feel less like a budding Computer Scientist for not really touching it.
Thinking about it this way: Calculus basically deals with continuous quantities whereas the bulk of computer-related studies is made up of discrete quantities - e.g. bits, states and the like. So I honestly question the point of several calculus classes unless you either want to go into heavy signal-processing or graphics stuff, or simply just want to feel smarter (which is a perfectly valid reason IMO).
End of the day, calculus is definitely not very relevant to day-to-day programming, which is what at least half of CS students will go on to do once they graduate. As such, I feel students should be given more flexibility regarding the topic as opposed to "You definitely must be a God of second-order differential equations or else you're a horrible excuse for a Computer Scientist".
EDIT: IMO, algorithms are the most important part of Computer Science - if you don't have the right mindset, you won't be able to solve problems, and CS is all about solving problems. Therefore if I were to offer any advice, it'd be to take algorithm lessons seriously! (And logic classes too, because the two go hand-in-hand, pretty much)
EDIT EDIT: Switched logic with algorithms..
author=Mr_Detectiveauthor=Yukiko AvatarHow could you not take any Calculus? :O
I'm a CS student and have been finding the degree a breeze so far to be honest, but mostly because it skimps on Mathematics classes (read: Barely any calculus).
Hard to believe that as well! Calculus is probably handy in the hardware side of things. Oh, wait, that's why you have EEs ...
TheNecromancer
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Star Trek Enterprise, 3E11, they were walking down an empty street at night, trying to break into cars. When they finally get in one, he opens the door for T'Pal and you can see a leg in the mirror xD This wouldn't have happened with 23rd century technology.
:o Wikipedia has pages for the future. It goes right up to 30th century, then 4th millennium and 5th and 6th...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_century
:o Wikipedia has pages for the future. It goes right up to 30th century, then 4th millennium and 5th and 6th...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_century
Mr_Detective
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author=edchuyauthor=Mr_DetectiveHard to believe that as well! Calculus is probably handy in the hardware side of things. Oh, wait, that's why you have EEs ...author=Yukiko AvatarHow could you not take any Calculus? :O
I'm a CS student and have been finding the degree a breeze so far to be honest, but mostly because it skimps on Mathematics classes (read: Barely any calculus).
But they won't give you the degree without taking math all the way to Calculus 2. :O
I had been in a bit of a rut. This week should be interesting for me. I'll be starting to work for one of my friends in his business of designing and installing certified fire safety systems, which I don't know anything about. Also, depending on how I see that, I'll have to decide whether I'll be moving or not. If I do decide to move, I'll be moving in a couple of weeks at the latest. Needlessly to say, I'm a bit scared of all these changes ...
Ugh, trying to remember what game this certain piece of music belonged to. I can hear the entire thing in my mind though - it's driving me nuts!
Mr_Detective
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I have my first CS class tomorrow... Hopefully, it won't be so bad. :(
I want my summer back. :(
I want my summer back. :(
author=Mr_DetectiveI want my summer to end! Still a month to go. :(
I have my first CS class tomorrow... Hopefully, it won't be so bad. :(
I want my summer back. :(
MajoracanKing
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author=kentona
I want my sexy back. Won't someone bring it?
No can do, I haven't seen any of that stuff around here for awhile
CyberDagger
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I'm in Computer Engineering, not Computer Science, so I have the preparation of an engineer instead of just a computer tech, meaning Calculus up the wazoo. Ugh... As should be easy to see, I absolutely loathe it, as well as most of the engineering stuff. I'm just not made to be an engineer. But now I'm stuck in a situation where I either finish this or don't have the means to pay for an education in something I actuallly want.
And the first semester of the year is just about starting. I'm starting to feel depressed just thinking about it.
In other news, I'm trying to figure out bullet hell patterns. The simpler ones are just basic exercises in polar coordinates, but there's a certain complexity threshold where I begin to not be able to grasp the true form of the math behind the pattern. Eh, I probably shouldn't be looking at endgame Touhou patterns this early in the learning process. Not the game that uses spells instead of guns and as such is able to explain bullshit like this with "it's magic brah". (The timestamp doesn't seem to be working for me. If it also doesn't work for you, the moment I'm trying to link to is at 22:50.) Let's stick to actual bullets for now.
And the first semester of the year is just about starting. I'm starting to feel depressed just thinking about it.
In other news, I'm trying to figure out bullet hell patterns. The simpler ones are just basic exercises in polar coordinates, but there's a certain complexity threshold where I begin to not be able to grasp the true form of the math behind the pattern. Eh, I probably shouldn't be looking at endgame Touhou patterns this early in the learning process. Not the game that uses spells instead of guns and as such is able to explain bullshit like this with "it's magic brah". (The timestamp doesn't seem to be working for me. If it also doesn't work for you, the moment I'm trying to link to is at 22:50.) Let's stick to actual bullets for now.
Mr_Detective
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I'm reading C++ introduction from my teacher, and I kinda get the basic. I hope I can deal with this. :P
