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[stringeddoll]

studying for a midterm i have on system analysis tomorrow !! :3

[a-fox-studies]

January 28, 2023 • Sunday

• --- HARDCORE WEEK — Day 13/21 --- •

Finished another chapter in EVS! Started doing my February journal setup, can't believe this month is going to end already!

I had the best burger ever, but I forgot to take a picture T-T

🎧 Thangamey — Anirudh Ravichander

[sunscreenstudies]

2/30 Days "Back to Uni" Challenge

Q: What is your favourite music to study to? This varies depending on what I'm studying. If I'm coding then I like to listen to motivating amped-up music like this playlist. If I'm writing an essay and need to seriously concentrate then I listen to instrumental music here. And if I'm doing mindless tasks like data collection or annotation, then I listen to catchy sing-along pop hits like this playlist!

Join the challenge here!

[xiabablog]

I truly believe if I finish the 10+ courses I have on Udemy, I would be an even better software developer.

But I lazy. I repeat the same comfortable code over and over again.

[maxwellgetsalife]

>_ 10.23.24

Things I got done today:

💯 Finished Polar Coordinates HW 💻 Wrote a Extra Credit discussion on Helper Method 💻 Wrote a summary paper on For-Each loops 💻 Reviewed 2 peer's codes for Extra Credit 💻 Worked on CS HW problems --- Link to my Playlist I made

Link to the Project Code WIP

[cyberstudious]

hi, im an high school sophomore interested in computer science and im also new to your blog. i was wondering if you would recommend conputer science and what have been your strengths and pitfalls with the field? thank u so much for your time.

Hi! Welcome to my blog, haha thanks for stopping by and sending an ask!

My path was self-taught game dev/web dev -> CS degree -> cybersecurity, so that's the perspective I'm writing from. My current job is basically just writing code for cybersecurity-related things (which I really like!). I do enjoy computer science and I think it's a great field to get into because you can do so many different things! I listed out my personal pros/cons under the cut but the tl;dr is that CS is a good field if you like constantly learning things, building things, and knowing how stuff works under the hood.

things I like about computer science:

so many options and things you can learn/specialize in

having programming skills and knowing how computers work gives you the foundational knowledge to succeed in a lot of things, both practical and theoretical/research-based. if you don't really like programming, there is plenty of theoretical math stuff you can do that's related to CS (this is what my partner is going back to grad school for haha)

lots of info available online for self-guided learning

do you want to learn how to make X? someone has almost certainly already written a tutorial for that and put it online for free. there are lots of open-source projects out there where you can read their documentation and even look at the code to figure out how things work!

there is always more to learn

tech evolves and you have to keep your skills up to date - that means there's always something new and interesting happening!

being able to build things

do you want to make an app? a website? a video game? a quick script to automate some annoying task that you do all the time? you can do that. all you need is a computer and some time! once you have some skills, it's amazing when you realize you can just Make Stuff literally whenever

understanding how things actually work

in a world of apps & operating systems that actively try to hide the technical layer of how they work in favor of "user friendliness", there is power to understanding what's actually happening inside your computer

problem-solving mindset

this kind of goes hand-in-hand with being able to build things, but eventually you get the hang of looking at a problem, breaking it down, and figuring out how to build a solution. this is something that I knew was an important soft skill, but I didn't really have any concrete examples until I started working with some technical but non-programmer coworkers. knowing programming & how to build things really does just help you solve problems in a concrete way and I think that's pretty cool.

things that can make computer science difficult:

programming is a cycle of failing until you succeed

programming is not something you get right on your first try - there's a reason that patches and updates and bug fixes exist. this might take some getting used to at first, but after that it's not an issue. failing constantly is just part of the process, but that means that solving those problems and feeling great when you figure it out is also part of the process!

there's so much to learn, you will have to go out and learn some of it on your own

a CS degree will not fully prepare you to be a professional developer, you will likely have to learn other languages & frameworks on your own (this is kind of a good thing btw - the average college probably isn't updating their curriculum often enough to teach you relevant frameworks/some professional coding things).

there is always more to learn

this is the other side of tech always evolving - sometimes it can feel like you're constantly behind, and that's okay - you can't learn literally everything! just do your best, explore a bit, and figure out the subset of things that you're actually interested in

lots of screen time

there are tech jobs where you can be active and move around and stuff, but I work from home and write code most of the day so I spend a ton of time in front of my computer. this isn't a huge problem, I just make an effort to spend time on my non-computer hobbies outside of work. something to note when you're looking for jobs, I suppose!

occasional toxic culture?

I'm thinking of "leetcode grindset bros" here because that was a common character at the college I went to - just ignore them and do things at a pace that feels comfortable to you, you'll be fine

on a related note, in my experience there will always be some dude who has been programming since like the age of 5 and seems to know everything and is kind of an ass about it, ignore these people too and you'll be fine

things are getting better, but CS is still very much a male-dominated field. however, there are plenty of organizations focused on supporting minority groups in tech! you can find a support group and there will always be people rooting for you.

that got kinda long lol, but feel free to reach out if you have any more questions!

[stemgirlchic]

why neuroscience is cool

space & the brain are like the two final frontiers

we know just enough to know we know nothing

there are radically new theories all. the. time. and even just in my research assistant work i've been able to meet with, talk to, and work with the people making them

it's such a philosophical science

potential to do a lot of good in fighting neurological diseases

things like BCI (brain computer interface) and OI (organoid intelligence) are soooooo new and anyone's game - motivation to study hard and be successful so i can take back my field from elon musk

machine learning is going to rapidly increase neuroscience progress i promise you. we get so caught up in AI stealing jobs but yes please steal my job of manually analyzing fMRI scans please i would much prefer to work on the science PLUS computational simulations will soon >>> animal testing to make all drug testing safer and more ethical !! we love ethical AI <3

collab with...everyone under the sun - psychologists, philosophers, ethicists, physicists, molecular biologists, chemists, drug development, machine learning, traditional computing, business, history, education, literally try to name a field we don't work with

it's the brain eeeeee

[izicodes]

I made a beginner coding resource! 👩🏾‍💻💗

Hiya! 👩🏾‍💻💗

I made a coding infographic/slideshow for anyone getting into coding and are stuck! I'm seeing a lot of new codeblr blogs coming up recently and they're all beginners and I have been getting a lot of asks which basically all ask "I'm new to coding, how do I start?", so I decided to make this at 1am in the morning real quick! 🥲😭

I genuinely hope that this resource proves beneficial to someone out there. And remember, if you find yourself still facing challenges or need assistance with anything else, please don't hesitate to reach out. I'm here to help! ✨

Link to the PDF: LINK

[katarinastudies]

22/01/2024

i’ve fully turned into a nocturnal being. kind of miss the structure in my life that school usually provides, but also enjoying the relative freedom i have now.

[bunnydevs]

[tarttwannabe]

on the agenda for may 09 — spent the last weekend at my sister's, and the start of the week getting back on track with my academics. things have been rough and i've been unmotivated to study, but exams don't wait for anyone. after classes today i'll be going through my ancient history notes, doing some latin, and studying for midterms. hopefully if i have the time i will be doing french as well. reading mary beard.

[a-fox-studies]

September 5, 2023

I am exhausted . . .

I almost got another flare but I stopped before that. Completed some notes that I had been procrastinating on for a while, I still have a chapter left, which I will write tomorrow.

I was abandoned by a few classmates who promised they would meet me in the canteen so I was pretty upset because of that. I'm not really fitting in with the crowd but that's okay :)

Today was a crappy day but it got better because my lecturers were impressed with me when I pointed out a bug in a program no one noticed :D

Things I did today:

Did a little physics reading, for 30 minutes. Got a derivation in.

Completed notes on Intro to Data Structures and Single Dimensional Arrays [mental note to complete Queues tomorrow]

Read through ppts sent by lecturers.

🎧 Rich Boy - payton

[quizzicalbr0wsblog]

more studying !!!

[anonymousdormhacks]

Whats the opposite of gothic? I'm in love with comp sci anti-gothic where it's just people being surprisingly polite and nice and funny through computers. A program's first lines are always "Hello world!". SMTP protocols apparently say "hello, pleased to meet you" to each other to establish a connection with a handshake. Python has a different version called Andaconda, which has a smaller version called miniconda. C++ is just C continuously improving on itself, because the ++ operator means to add one onto a previous value, and C# is two ++ stacked on top of each other. Lawmakers have to talk about the ethics of saving "cookies" to computers because one guy liked fortune cookies and decided to call them that. The internet itself wasn't created with security in mind because it was just meant to be a way for a group of people who trusted each other using it to send each other information, and so on, and so forth

[theonewhereistudy]

I'm trying to be more gentle with myself. Constantly reminding my silly mind that there's no rush. The place is here, the time is now. Make yourself some nice meals; Relearn to enjoy the things you once were curious about.

[electricxangell]

born to code, forced to learn theory 💔💔💔