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Sorry I just got out of class so I haven’t had time to read all of this.Your words mean nothing, at this point. Your actions will say it all.
Yup, 2 months until finals. Really interesting because I’d say we’ve only turned in like 35% of the work for each class.Yeah theory is all good but remember guys have been getting laid since the ice age. If anything, you are hesitating and putting girls on the pedastal. Enough of this bitching. Focus on your studying. Get that **** done, study smart. Change your habits if its still ****. You have two months now. Exams soon.
You’re taking finals already? Jesus Christ.Nick I'd kill for your situation. My exams are next week. We have quarters instead of semesters. 10 weeks.
If I were in your shoes, I'd start knocking things out so I can study for exams starting next week. Even if that meant 1 hour a day. But that's just me.
The thing that frustrates me is the pressure honestly. My average grade on my exams has been a 78. That’s not terrible: but to get the grades I want I have to make minimal mistakes on the next ones and the materials harder too.Even if its just going over the content. Rinse and repeat. 30-45 mins of deep work x 3 sets per day is better than masturbating for several hours or working like a sled dog in the library. Unless you enjoy it then all cool.
Edit: dependig on my mood and energy, I do both but you better be doing something.
Sorry what do you mean by martial law?I think Nick is lost. Big time. He wants to make it but he doesn’t want to declare martial law. You must declare.
Being focused on your tasks. Priorities and action.Sorry what do you mean by martial law?
I wouldn't call studying exactly fun, but it's something that has to be done or I'm dead in the water. I'm cool with programming! I like it, it's just extremely frustrating when the stuff doesn't work like I want it to. That's a super fast turnaround for getting a job though!Would it help if going to the library was fun? Or knowing you are going to be programming for the next 8 hours was ten times better than going to the night club? If you have a high interest in something, especially development, you tend to do better at it since you're doing it more.
When I started programming when I was working my customer service job, I immediately was hooked. Working 8-9 hours on the phone and then making an hour-long trip back to my home was totally worth spending the next 4-5 hours working on little mini projects involving javascript and css. Hell, I enjoyed it so much I ended up quitting my job and coding fulltime just so I could learn on my own. Eight months and a coding bootcamp later I was working for a high profile company downtown with a place right in the middle of the action.
I imagine if you treated your work as a treat or as an intriguing challenge, you'll be willing to spend more time "studying" since you'll like what you're doing. Actually, to be more probing, I'm wondering if you're holding back because you feel guilty that you like programming a lot and you're too afraid to admit it.
That's life if you can learn how to bounce back, you will have learned a valuable skill: how to take a punch. Life is full of punches, so learning to roll with them is crucial.it's just extremely frustrating when the stuff doesn't work like I want it to
The basis of all engineering/science is math. I struggled with seeing the purpose of my math class this quarter too. My advisor put it into perspective for me. See my chef vs. cook analogy from before. You might not use the exact equations from your math class. But what's important is to understand the assumptions and the logical thinking process. Understanding math gives you the ability to think critically. Can I make this assumption? How can I evaluate "this" if that? How can my code be faster based on this discrete method? See what I'm saying?I don't see the application for those classes
This is to be expected. You are a STUDENT. You are there to learn. If you knew it all.. would you be in college?ALWAYS end up getting stuck at some point.
Be careful. You're falling into the trap again with "studying" codeI wouldn't call studying exactly fun, but it's something that has to be done or I'm dead in the water.
You don't truly learn from tutorials and instructors. You learn when you code your own stuff. Hence, you will spend more time in the library if you fiddle code with the concepts you learn. Scratching your own itch per say.I will say that I have a fun time programming when the instructions make sense and I have proper tutorials, also when I start in advance so I'm not trying to rush my code. I only get mad when there aren't books or online resources to help me because I ALWAYS end up getting stuck at some point.
If this is the mentality, there is much heartbreak ahead of you.I mean I'll do it, cause I'll get this degree if it's the last thing I do, but sheesh.
Yeah man I feel you definitely taking those punches atm lolThat's life if you can learn how to bounce back, you will have learned a valuable skill: how to take a punch. Life is full of punches, so learning to roll with them is crucial.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
MLK Jr
Would you say that coding from scratch would help studying for a test in a programming class as well?Be careful. You're falling into the trap again with "studying" code
You don't truly learn from tutorials and instructors. You learn when you code your own stuff. Hence, you will spend more time in the library if you fiddle code with the concepts you learn. Scratching your own itch per say.
If this is the mentality, there is much heartbreak ahead of you.
You use Google and stackoverflow. I check those routinely. You need to have a very good understanding of what it is you are trying to accomplish tho so you can create a "laser-like" search and quickly find what you are looking for. Its a very, very underrated skill.I guess the next best thing to do would be to focus on getting this lab in and completed well. Then I have to start studying for these upcoming tests IN ADVANCE. Like a week ahead of time.
Also while I'm at it, @Papa_smu and @marmel75 I had a question for you guys. So I've found these programs/labs pretty much impossible to solve without me going to the teacher to get help or going to tutoring every single week. But what happens when you're at your programming job and then there's a problem you have no idea how to even start? There's no teachers or tutoring then. Is it just you, the internet and any books you happen to have?
Oh and Marmel, as I'm going through this class idk how to feel about OOP anymore either. Seemed cool at first but it's starting to get frustrating and I'm really beginning to miss procedural programming.
One of the greatest and an extremely rare ability in programmers is not giving up no matter what until you figure it out on your own and find the answer. If it takes you 3 hours then it takes 3 hours. If it takes 6 hours it takes 6 hours. If it takes 3 days then it takes 3 days. But you don't give up on it until you figure it out. This will do more for your programming ability than almost anything else...you will learn a lot about why things dont work and why they do. Just have to have dogged determination and take it as a personal challenge that you will win at all costs. Honestly you have to almost be obsessed with figuring it out. I'm STILL obsessed with it...I literally will spend however long i need to on an issue until I figure it out ...but its served me very well ovee the years and has taught me a LOT I would have never learned otherwise.Would you say that coding from scratch would help studying for a test in a programming class as well?
Usually our tests are some vocabulary/matching/definitions, and then some handwritten code. The approach I've been taking is simply memorizing the code for the handwritten sections. With vocab there's no other way but to memorize it.
And then of course we have programs, labs, etc.
Okay, for a specific example, we had to show how a Singleton Class in Java would be implemented. I just memorized which variables needed to be private and the methods and so on.
So you're saying in studying for the test it would be better to implement my own Singleton Classes and truly understand it instead of just trying to brute force it?
I'm just trying to think of different attack angles here for this stuff
I’ll be looking forward to working on this synthesizer once school is out. Hopefully that’ll help me out with learning that skill. I’m sure it’s gonna be an absolute beast of a project, though.One of the greatest and an extremely rare ability in programmers is not giving up no matter what until you figure it out on your own and find the answer. If it takes you 3 hours then it takes 3 hours. If it takes 6 hours it takes 6 hours. If it takes 3 days then it takes 3 days. But you don't give up on it until you figure it out. This will do more for your programming ability than almost anything else...you will learn a lot about why things dont work and why they do. Just have to have dogged determination and take it as a personal challenge that you will win at all costs. Honestly you have to almost be obsessed with figuring it out. I'm STILL obsessed with it...I literally will spend however long i need to on an issue until I figure it out ...but its served me very well ovee the years and has taught me a LOT I would have never learned otherwise.
This is what happens in the real world. You will randomly have them come to you and say "we have this situation going on and need to fix it...what can you do for that?". And thats it. They tell you what problem is, you have to be able to figure out how to fix it. Now as a junior developer you will usually have your hand held at first by senior developer who will kind of spoon feed it to you so you have a very clear understanding of things, what the problem is and what the solution is. Once they trust you enough they will start giving you more and more to see how you do...if you want to progress you will have to start figuring those things out for yourself.
That first means you have to understand what the problem actually is. A lot of programmers spend a lot of time fixing the wrong problems. Then you have to understand how to fix it. This means you have to understand concepts because not knowing how/when to apply what you learned will have you looking at a problem and not knowing what to do. You will be in a position where you will not understand how these decisions affect other parts of the program, etc..basically you will be lost in the sauce and not know how things tie together.
This is why I am a huge proponent of building an entire application by yourself...it forces you to understand EVERYTHING and how all the parts and pieces fit together. This is somthing you will NOT learn in class and will NOT learn at most companies because you usually are working on other people's code and only on very small parts of it.
When you first start out, that's definitely a good idea. I still do that for complex things but dor simpler things I just kind of see it in my mind the way I want to develop it.I’ll be looking forward to working on this synthesizer once school is out. Hopefully that’ll help me out with learning that skill. I’m sure it’s gonna be an absolute beast of a project, though.
School is definitely testing my determination with these programs lol.
Are you a proponent of writing out everything you want to do on paper or drawing a picture before you even write a single line of code? Someone told me to do that because if you don’t know what you’re trying to do, like you said, you’re sunk.
Also coding in small chunks. As in write a method and then test it with a small driver before you move on. Because if you try to run it all at once that’s just asking for several logic errors and like 200 syntax errors.