Road to Computer Science

Hello everyone! Merry Christmas (as it seems to be right now)! In this post, I’m going to analyze the subjects I’ve studied so far and rethinking my exams for everyone who wants to follow my path! Freshman – Fall During the fall, I’ve done     Introduction to Programming     Programming thinking (or something like that, see my previous review for that)     Introduction to Physics     Single Variable Calculus (just a part of it) My degree was different, presenting 5 exams (game development in html5 and js, which I’ve never done after that). Right now, a good degree should attests     Introduction to programming     Object Oriented Programming     Single Variable calculus     Physics     May be an elective course (but it’s not that useful, imo) Reviewing Leaving out the fact that I haven’t finished my set of exams, let’s talk about the exams:   ...

Wow. 3 posts in just 3 days. Am i sick? All going well? Parents? Ok? ok. Well, let’s start. This semester was really “strange”. During this season, the set of exams was     Electronics (a 3 part course done by MIT, free on Edx)     Design and Analysis of Algorithms (part 1 and 2)     Statistic     Multivariable Calculus So here it is. 4 exams (well, counting them, they are 7). Let me sign with a 🙂 the amount of exams i’ve done     Electronics (a 3 part course done by MIT, free on Edx)     Design and Analysis of Algorithms (part 1 🙂 and 2)     Statistic     Multivariable Calculus Now you get it. I’ve managed to do only one out of 7 courses (i’m currently at 30% of multivariable calculus). I’ve also dropped databases (which i’ll do probably the next year after networking), but luckily i’ve managed to complete Linear Algebra. LA probably led to this situation, because t...

Oh oh oh, merry Christmas to everyone! Luckily for me, i’m not Santa, but i want to give you a gift anyway! (obviously, it’s just another review). Today, the topic is design and analysis of algorithms, and i’m reviewing this MOOC built by Stanford The Course First of all, let me say that this course is terrific good and challenging. I spent, somehow, more than 100 hours on this course, counting the weekly programming assignments. The course is 7 weeks long (with the final exam), but it feels endless, for real. The topics covered are a mixture between a design and analysis standard course (which is usually strongly related to mathematic analysis of algorithms, but i can be wrong) and an usual data structure and algorithms course. The topics covered starts from basic sorting operations to hash tables and functions in the sixth week. I found it really useful for a further understanding of ds & a and for a recap too. summarizing, i really liked it The lectures Tim Roughgarden (the lect...

An usual sunday of December. God’s resting day, (sadly, not mine). Christmas trees are already settled down, and Michael Buble already sings “Let it snow” (a me ricorda natale solo perche da noi viene utilizzato nello spot di una poltrona per 2 , che qui in Italia e piu tradizione quello che aprire i regali alla vigilia, sono almeno 20 anni che ce lo becchiamo ad ogni natale, se lo tolgono dal palinsenso rischiamo l’ammutinamento del cenone della vigilia), but here we are, as usual, speaking of one of my exams. Today, it’s LAFF time! Linear Algebra – Foundation to Frontier it’s a free MOOC findable on Edx done by UT Austin, and probably the best MOOC of linear algebra in the entire web. The course is 12 weeks long, with 3 exams (2 midterms and 1 final). The course Let me first start saying that this is one of the best MOOCS i’ve done in my entire life. This course is so well built, it’s terrific. The amount of work spent by Professor Van de Geijn to built this course creates a wonderfu...