The Crossroads of Destiny

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:i might also post some questions for you along the way.

I'll do my best but I'm not a cs student, just an interested hobbyist.

You could do an amd vs. intel microarchitectures paper but I don't think that your instructor would be very pleased with that subject. Not to mention they keep the details of their microarchitectures so secret that you would have a difficult time getting all of the necessary information to draw any meaningful conclusions.

Quote:let me know if there's anything you think i should add

Lots. That's why you should do some research on topics first.

[ExtremeDude2]

(05-22-2012, 03:37 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

Quote:i might also post some questions for you along the way.

I'll do my best but I'm not a cs student, just an interested hobbyist.

So what do you take? (I'm curious now )

[Zee530]

(05-22-2012, 03:50 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote:

(05-22-2012, 03:37 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

Quote:i might also post some questions for you along the way.

I'll do my best but I'm not a cs student, just an interested hobbyist.

So what do you take? (I'm curious now )

Yeah, he seems to know alot more than us computer science students but since computer is a branch of science that almost anyone can get into its not too surprising

[NaturalViolence]

.....it's complicated.

I started off doing a bachelors in cs at a university. I had chosen c.s. because I had always been interested in computers growing up so I figured that this was the logical choice. I didn't fully understand what cs involved at the time. It was unbelievably hard, by far the most challenging thing I have ever done in my life. The math courses in particular were murder. I tried getting to know the community through programming/engineering clubs and such but could barely understand a thing those people said. I felt like I was years behind where I was supposed to be. It seemed as if most of the cs students I talked to had started programming in middle/high school and were already quite proficient at it. I felt inferior to everyone around me and basically had no idea wtf I was doing. After 3 semesters I just lost the will to continue and left.

I finished an A.A. at a local college and took some programming courses while I was doing it. It peeked my interest and my professors were really impressed with me. I was top of my class in every programming class I took. Which isn't actually that hard when your school is filled with idiots. I figured I would go back and finish my B.S. in cs after that since I didn't really know what else to do. At this point I didn't really know what I was going to do with my life (still don't) so I was pretty much just continuing on the path before me hoping it would lead me somewhere worthwhile. But one of my professors was the program adviser for the programming and analysis A.S. degree program at my college and recommended that I do it. She made a very convincing argument. She basically guaranteed that I would be able to get a high paying job straight out of school if I did it so I went ahead and did it.

I'm currently doing an A.S. degree at a local college that focuses on object oriented programming (using C++, java, and C# with .NET). It's far more high-level programming oriented than cs. The program literally has no hardware or low level programming courses at all. After that I might do a bachelors in IT, cs, software engineering, or cyber security. I have no idea. I want to do cs because of its academic value (it will give me a much clearer understanding of the ins and outs of digital electronics) and societal status (everyone looks down on people with IT degrees, it's like being a nurse instead of a doctor). But the others have a better chance of landing me a good job. Also if I go back and do cs I will have a much easier time with it knowing what I know now.

Quote:Yeah, he seems to know alot more than us computer science students but since computer is a branch of science that almost anyone can get into its not too surprising

Code:

while (topic == interesting)
{
    ReadArticlesOnTopic();

     if (dontUnderstandSomething == true)
     {
         do
         {
               ReadArticlesOnThat();
         }
         while (understand == false);
     }
}

[AnyOldName3]

Random compiling error because you're using a compiler from before the invention of the computer mouse which doesn't support systems with more than 128MB RAM (ie my problem when I was 8 which made me give up coding, and swap to Mike Overmars' Game maker (Now Game Maker by yoyo games).

[ExtremeDude2]

(05-22-2012, 05:17 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

Code:

while (topic == interesting)
{
    ReadArticlesOnTopic();

     if (dontUnderstandSomething == true)
     {
         do
         {
               ReadArticlesOnThat();
         }
         while (understand == false);
     }
}

You just doubled my coding knowledge (I REALLY need to start learning some XD)

[AnyOldName3]

When I look at the post time for your post it says you haven't posted that yet. What... What are you?

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:You just doubled my coding knowledge Tongue (I REALLY need to start learning some XD)

First assignment: make that code recursive

[AnyOldName3]

[upside-down?]Qué?

[ExtremeDude2]

(05-22-2012, 06:29 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

Quote:You just doubled my coding knowledge Tongue (I REALLY need to start learning some XD)

First assignment: make that code recursive

Code:

while (thread == cool)
{
    ReadArticlesOnTopic();

     if (unknown == true)
     {
         do
         {
               ReadArticlesOnThread();
         }
         while (knowalge == false);
     }
}