Any Senior Comp. Sci students out there?
04-26-2011 at 08:09 PM
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Having worked at a few companies, they most definitely do not.
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The pro's don't work at companies, they are the ones reverse engineering and cracking all software out there.
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04-26-2011 at 08:33 PM
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The pro's don't work at companies, they are the ones reverse engineering and cracking all software out there.
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I find that to be true and a previous comment.
I'm going to stick with NetBeans  |
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04-26-2011 at 08:36 PM
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If you say so. Eclipse is typically the IDE of choice because it has plugins for basically every other programming language in existence, as well as many other useful tools like SVN.
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04-26-2011 at 08:43 PM
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I've used SVN with NetBeans bud 
Needed to use it for a school project, it was easy to use. |
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04-26-2011 at 09:27 PM
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just finished first year... erm what you need to know next year.. i think they changing the language to Python.. that is 1MD3.. and then you have 1FC3 thats your two comp sci classes.. fc3 deals with boolean logic and computational calculus ... also 3 maths .. which are brutal.. the rest u get to pick what classes u want to take
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04-26-2011 at 09:32 PM
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The three maths aren't that bad. I got a 10 in 1ZA3 and a 6 in 1ZB3 (  ), still waiting on 1ZC3. As for 1MD3 I got a 12, and waiting on 1FC3 as well. 1FC3 was pretty difficult though IMO. And yes the professor last semester in 1MD3 did say they're switching to Python I believe, but the course really wasn't about Java anyway. |
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04-26-2011 at 09:43 PM
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Eww Python, :( and thanks for the info guys.
I really appreciate it.
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04-26-2011 at 10:31 PM
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Eww Python, :(
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Nothing really wrong with Python. It's epic for scripting :p.
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04-26-2011 at 10:49 PM
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Scripting what exactly?  |
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04-28-2011 at 11:21 AM
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Oh and just for reference on those math marks, in Grade 12 I had a 71 in Adv. Functions and a 68 in Calc/Vec  I was a little surprised I got into a university at all considering how little effort I put in in high school. But yea, obviously you don't need to have been some math whiz in high school to do decently well in first year Eng. math - at least in my opinion. |
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04-29-2011 at 03:09 PM
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That sounds comforting :]
I got 72 in Advanced Functions for my final mark, but I attained 86% in Calc&Vectors for Midterms, yay.
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04-30-2011 at 09:33 AM
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1ZC3 marks are out, I got a 7.
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05-06-2011 at 10:31 AM
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Is that good?
Anyway, guys I received an offer of admission into McMaster. I just wanted to take a moment to thank lizzie,Entropy,...!!! ??? and a few others for their moral support, and I'll be seeing you all this upcoming September! :]
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05-06-2011 at 01:57 PM
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That sounds comforting :]
I got 72 in Advanced Functions for my final mark, but I attained 86% in Calc&Vectors for Midterms, yay.
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The mathematics you'll encounter in computer science will be of a different sort than the engineering students see. You'll share calculus (i.e. 'continuous mathematics') and linear algebra (and I think you have to take stats for math), but most mathematics for computing is some sort of 'discrete' mathematics. You'll be doing more 'math' (as a math major sees it) than an engineering student, as they will do calculations, etc., while you'll work more on proofs etc., even implicitly in your non-math courses.
I would say that computer science is a more mathematical discipline than the engineering disciplines. It's not the standard math everyone's used to, of course. |
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05-06-2011 at 02:31 PM
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I guess I'll have to handle whatever comes at me.
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