This may well be entirely anecdotal because I don't think there is any official data to this somewhat ambiguous question.But based on your experience, if you have worked with quite a few number of programmers and engineers from a few schools, which school tends to produce the most well rounded programmers/engineers (as much as a school can train someone out of the box)?
Many universities have there undergrad curriculum available online along with their course materials (slides, videos, assignments, etc). Some are locked down and little searching reveals sources. E.g.: Berkeley, MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc.My question is has anyone here on HN did something like picking one school's curriculum and studying its entire undergrad core sequence or something similar to...
As a programmer I feel I am quite deficient in mathematics. I have some reminiscent knowledge of calculus and matrix algebra from college. But I don't know how to read or write correct proofs.I don't have access to any teacher so books and online courses will be my best bet. Can you throw some suggestions at me?
Let me be clear upfront about what I mean by working with data. Generally working with data means that you have some form of data and you do some kind of analysis on it. Now once I have very clean structured data already available data analysis becomes easy.But what if I have data that is not clean in form of files or databases? Then I have to read the files, clean it up and structure it in...
Btw, I also liked Hubbard and Hubbard.
Another book I liked was Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective at https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
Maybe it is a life hack, a new topic, a new recipe, etc. Whatever YOU think is exciting to you.
Your life is yours. There are many sectors to it. So you decide what meaningful actually means and which sector it belongs to.
Some students/researchers who like to learn mainly from books have a few favourites that they attribute to their acquired knowledge/skillset.Do you have any such "best" book in your research career till now?
What were your realisations after learning functional programming?Were you a proficient programmer before that?
Any subject, any level. What did you learn that it is so worth remembering?
Mathematical maturity is a term thrown around to mean that someone with it is well versed with the lingo and workings of the field of mathematics. You can't learn the entire field of mathematics in your lifetime. But what mathematical maturity gives you is the power to understand mathematics that is at the moment beyond your scope by searching the right things or by pattern matching.You are...
Maybe you were lacking something and you realised that after reading a book. Then you changed yourself and became someone whose company people enjoy more.
What was the experience like good and bad both? What was your first language? Would you have changed something if you were given another chance at life?
If you have worked extensively with graduates from some CS school and think they were the best in aspects of problem solving, code quality, fundamental concepts, etc which school was it?If you think your school provided you the best education why do you think so? Which courses or aspects of your undergrad make you say so.