swelly127
Re:Bluetooth gloves - the worst or best idea ever
on Sunday December 08, 2013 @05:07PM (#6871649)
either way, they are on sale and I just bought one :P
Good with algorithms & horrible with technology. Please help me
So I'm a sophomore at a ivy league school studying CS. Recently I've been doing a few interviews and most of them have been pretty impressed at my ability to find anagrams in strings quickly, or whatever. The thing is, I can't understand technology at all. I love algorithms - I write python scripts for my math homework... and run them in codecademy labs because I can't figure out the unix...
Re:Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code
on Monday October 21, 2013 @03:07PM (#6587542)
I have the exact same problem as OP. Getting tons of job offers because I've been doing competitive math and algorithms since grade school but really have hard time understand technology. I'm pretty ambitious and I want to join a small, high growth startup and have the excitement of being part of a founding team but I'm afraid of letting people down.
I could learn heroku/RoR/whatever other technology but news things are always coming out and some people keep up with it so easily. I'm not sure being a dev is right for me if I take so long to understand such basic stuff. But I love coding and algos! I write python scripts to do all my homework... and then run them in codecademy labs because doing it in unix makes me so confused.
If anyone has had the same problem please let me know how you got over this hurdle. Thanks.
background; sophomore, cs major, cornell