intro class at my college was python. you cover the basic math/function/conditional/loops/strings/arrays then IO/recursion, then some OOP then in the last month you learn some basic data structures (stack/queue/bst), binary search, and basic sorts. the test on Data structures/algorithms is more about applying the algorithms and not coding them.

ahh.

We never learned about OOP, stack/queue/bst, io/recursion.

In my CS 1 class we finished the class with one extremely small OOP project so no worries. We made a little house that made everything fit to size with the selected window etc and we made a pong screen saver.

This thread gives me a little hope. I was so worried that my school wasn't teaching me enough for each semester. Maybe they are just like everyone else. I just feel like I have alot to learn seeing as I could have an internship in about a year?

prolly a year, year and a half.

unless you've been coding since you were 10, don't expect any good/decent company to hire you on as an intern until maybe your 3rd year. you'll want to have *some* kind of experience before then too - like taking on some kind of undergraduate research project if you have those available in your university.

This post was edited by irimi on Aug 2 2012 03:05pm

Had my first day of class today.

Are all CS professor nutjobs? Or just the ones at my university? :/

I should have went to WASHU ;/


anyways, even if he is a nutjob, he did explain pointers thoroughly today in a way that I actually understood, unlike the cs1250 prof who was just like LMAO YOU PUT AN ASTERISK AND NOW ITS A POINTER LMAO LMAO

This post was edited by Eep on Aug 20 2012 03:16pm

pointers in the context of this data structures class are actually pretty cool. But I can see how they get out of hand if you use enough of them....(holy variable names batman)

I understood pointers better when I studied about piles and stacks, creating sortable lists using push and pop methods.

first thing he said we would do are linked lists and trees iirc

posted some questions in the c++ forum if anyone can help :/

I really want to learn this stuff

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=64424075&f=122