Any Senior Comp. Sci students out there?
04-22-2011 at 07:41 PM
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Any Senior Comp. Sci students out there?
If you're a Comp. Sci senior please respond. :]
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04-23-2011 at 09:10 PM
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I'm a graduating Software Engineer. Might be able to answer something.
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04-24-2011 at 07:08 PM
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I'm third year compsci. What do you need?
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04-24-2011 at 09:14 PM
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Reporting in.
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04-24-2011 at 09:22 PM
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1st year perspective
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04-24-2011 at 10:23 PM
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Lol so many volunteers, yet nobody to pose a question...
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04-25-2011 at 06:26 PM
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Yay, Comp Sci and Software Eng. students 
I just had a question about first year, what exactly do you do? Is it hard to learn Java by yourself without teacher help? |
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04-25-2011 at 06:33 PM
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Yay, Comp Sci and Software Eng. students
I just had a question about first year, what exactly do you do? Is it hard to learn Java by yourself without teacher help? |
Have you done any programming whatsoever before?
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04-25-2011 at 06:42 PM
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I wouldn't consider HTML as a language, but I have used HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/C++/Java and a bit of Visual Basic.
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04-25-2011 at 06:44 PM
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Alright, so I'm assuming then you understand the basics.
Are you starting this September? I recommend looking around online for tutorials and stuff on the object-oriented paradigm and learn as much as you can before school starts. From what I can see through others in my program, that concept tends to be the hardest for people to grasp.
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04-25-2011 at 06:54 PM
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I never got accepted yet from McMaster. They're waiting on the midterm marks for the majority of people in the Peel District School Board area. I plan to either attend Mac or Loo and thanks for the advice. I'll look into it, any links would be appreciated.
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04-25-2011 at 06:57 PM
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After a quick google search, this seems like a good start.
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04-25-2011 at 06:58 PM
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Thanks bro, I appreciate it.
The link you just gave was a concept a lot of people struggle with?
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04-25-2011 at 07:14 PM
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I would suggest learning the basics of OO programming first, then focus on generalized concepts (classes, methods, constructors, for/while/do loops, if statements, try/catch, etc.). If you can get those, your pretty much good to go! I also suggest looking into pointers, linkedlists, hashtables, etc if you cover the basics. Not only will those give you an advanced understanding of Java, but you will be able to create much more efficient programs
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04-25-2011 at 07:19 PM
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Any links you can provide?
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