Everything You Need to Know as a Computer Science Student

My answers to every computer science question asked by y'all.

What's the best/most useful major in computer science? I want to be a software engineer. (0:33)
What part time jobs should I get as a computer science student? (3:12)
What book do you recommend to have a better scope of computer science? (3:51)
Secret comment. (4:32)
What sources best supplement learning in a computer science student curriculum? (5:46)
As a computer science undergrad, which information should I include in my CV and cover letter when applying to internships? How should I structure them? (6:36)
What coding projects have you done to get an internship? (7:28)
What would you recommend a student do before entering their first year as a computer science major? (8:23)
How to prepare for a computer science degree? Algorithms? Math? Programming language? (9:54)
Can I still become a software engineer with a computer engineering degree? (10:55)
How does a professional developer team work? What should computer science students look forward to? (11:29)
Would you rather do coding projects or competitive programming? (13:53)
How does one develop the discipline to code every day? (14:18)
What background in coding do I need to become a computer science student? (15:18)

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[obegcli]

Andrew Tanenbaum books on CS helped me a lot during uni years and sometimes during discussions at work but they give theoretical knowledge not practical applications

[seanperman]

me: not paying attention to my online class
me: "o look a video about how to be a good cs student"

[d.h.]

Came for computer science.
Stayed for the glorious hair and beard.

[jamesbest]

My biggest tip: if you're a computer science student and have the chance (it was not required at my college) to take software engineering, make sure you take all the software engineering classes you can because that's what you'll be doing. Most of CS is a lot of abstract data structures and ideas that you may never even ever use, but knowing the pipeline of actually creating software and those different methodologies (Agile which is just old school RAD with more crap to have to deal with, Waterfall, Spiral, etc. etc.) will give you a better idea of what you'll be doing on the day to day. You'll tailor your data structure and algorithm knowledge to what you're tasked with at work, but the software engineering portion you'll use anywhere you go.

[jamesnguyen]

Cs is like math. Shit builds on top of each other and it’s pretty rewarding when you figure the problem out

[legolas]

1. Forget everything you learned so far!
2. Forget about happines!
3. Forget about social life!
4. Change your name and identity!
And finally
5. Always make "Hello World" as your first program

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[dyastro]

Boi here looking more and more like jesus everyday lol

[ILovETRicKShoTnMW]

in my school, I'm almost done with my associates I've only taken Intro to computer science, computer science 1 and 2. Math-related will college algebra, precalculus, and calculus 1. I got Basic Statistics and Linear Algebra left to take(HOPEFULLY). The majority of the classes I've taken is general study class. I wish I started learning web development in the beginning because I feel as if I wasted time not learning it as I should have so I can have a project and stuff for internships

[creepypastime]

To hear that you didn't have any preparation before college makes me feel better for being in the same position. I really didn't have any experience with code, other than html, and felt behind because other student because half of them either smarter or extremely experienced with the area.

[carterpierre]

This is so informative, I've been a little on the fence about getting into CS but I love how challenging it is.
This video really helped answer alot of question I had. I cannot thank you enough.

[SpaceGravy]

Jesus is awesome. Loved your messages in the Gospels dude, really ahead of their time. Not surprised you're good with computers too.

[armaghanafzal]

You know what you are my mentor ^^ I am currently 20 years old student doing software engineering as my major

[leejk]

Funny as it may sound, I was not ready for much maths AT ALL when I chose to apply for a CS degree. People had said it was a lot of maths and I kind of brushed it off, but it did indeed become a large part of it. I don't really like maths and dropped A Level maths pretty quick into my first year but through help from friends who did further maths etc I've managed to reach the end of my second year so doing alright so far lol. I also only knew the very basics of coding but found that I learnt what I needed to when I needed to. My first classes on programming and my first coursework I was totally lost but once I had it explained to me I'd understand it and then be fine doing it after that. So don't worry too much about it I guess though it can help for sure.

[Mohammad-jipz]

So my University currently has both Software Engineering and Computer Science. Both majors are pretty much the same thing and the only difference is about 3 or 4 classes. For example, for the Data Structures and Algorithms course, there is CIS 350 (theory based) and CIS 3501 (SE side of the class) also the core requirements has SE majors take SE 2 after SE 1 while CS majors only take SE 1. So its really the same degree, same requirements, only difference is a couple of classes (that are very similar).

[chelseaesanson]

Thank you for answering my question! Helped me a lot, I really look up to you.

[SajeelCodes]

Everything you need to know to be a successful software engineer is to have a beard like Forrest Knight

[jasongerard]

If your school offers it I'd recommend taking the software engineering degree most of the time. 75% of the courses will be exactly the same between the 2 degrees but for those 25% of courses (at least for the schools near me) will expose you too more application and more of what you will be doing in the real world. An example of this is a 3rd year software engineering student at my school will take a course 'enterprise application unit testing', which is an entire job in itself vs a comp sci student would take 'operating systems 2'.

[TheCookieMuncher]

Thanks for answering my question, man. Always top information

[lisakoski]

Thanks! Great advice! just starting out pursuing a BA CS after being out of school for 20 years! I have been having a similar dilemma, I originally signed up for software development, but my counselor said I should do CS since I said I want the ability to be hands on, on top of developing. Not sure if I am thinking too but thanks great video!