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lord of the flies, Buddy Read! :) [[Oct. 2022. ]]
Hey guys!long time no see.
just wanted to say that I will be joining the buddy read this April as part of my annual good reads tradition. looking forward to it!
Bilal wrote: "Hey guys!long time no see.
just wanted to say that I will be joining the buddy read this April as part of my annual good reads tradition. looking forward to it!"
Hey!
A very long time no see! xD How are you?
Great to have you back in BR! ^^
Hey, guys! Who is having online classes these days?
Mine will start from 13th.
Ahmed wrote: "Hey, guys! Who is having online classes these days?
Mine will start from 13th."
Alhamdulillah no classes for me.
I heard they were about to start online classes from monday. But its friday now and still no news 🤷♀️Frankly, I don’t really want them to start online classes. We can’t learn engineering reading books. There are labs and stuff which they can’t teach us through a couple of video lectures and books.
About the book, Ahmed can you please upload an epub copy? I can’t download it from your drive I don’t know what’s wrong.. :(
Bilal wrote: "Ahmed wrote: "Hey, guys! Who is having online classes these days?
Mine will start from 13th."
Alhamdulillah no classes for me."
Good for you, bud!
@ZarshalI'm an engineering student too so my argument was same..We can't learn lab's stuff by just a couple of videos...
We requested for the cancellation of online classes but koi faida ni hua...Rector explained the reasons of continuing online learning and to be honest he was not wrong too..
Now uni has come up with the best solution. And I think it's not a bad deal:
They have decided to deliver online classes for two pure theoretical courses (no labs at all) and these courses will be completed from 13th April to 31st May. After that, when uni will be opened IA, they will cover the labs and remaining courses..
I think that's the best deal we students can get in this unpredictable situation...
Bs thora sa nuksaan ye hoga k summer vacations boht km hongi..or semester lamba ho jaye ga...I guess khair ha given the situation...
For now till 13th April, I'm full wailla. xD
That is a good solution weseh. Lekin I guess in that situation we could study only one course: Stats and probability. Baaki tou sab are labs :|I don’t know what our university’s gonna do. Lekin tab tak I’m learning what I can khudi. Softwares and stuff.
Zarshal wrote: "That is a good solution weseh. Lekin I guess in that situation we could study only one course: Stats and probability. Baaki tou sab are labs :|I don’t know what our university’s gonna do. Lekin ta..."
Mine are two courses:
Engineering Professionalism
Probability Methods in Engineering..
yeah...In this time khudse zyada mehnat krni pre gi.. :(
Elsa wrote: "shukr khuda ka main uni main nahi hon"hahaha...lucky you!
But I think university life is much better than college's. I suffered a hell lot in college...😅😅
tfw CS major> all courses online
> all labs online
> multiple assignments at once
> all on my own suggestions because I was the most vocal supporter of moving online
but heeey at least all coursera courses are free for us now, thanks Uni
So I guess we should officially start this month’s read?There are five women and the book is divided into five parts, one part per woman. We can divide the rest of the days of April into five parts, which gives us 5 days to read each part. We can discuss each part-slash-woman after five days.
What do you guys say?
Zarshal wrote: "So I guess we should officially start this month’s read?There are five women and the book is divided into five parts, one part per woman. We can divide the rest of the days of April into five par..."
Done
@Ahmed We just received the notification for online classes starting from April 13. 😂
Zarshal wrote: "@Ahmed We just received the notification for online classes starting from April 13. 😂"Same! 😅
13 to 5th June.
Yeah well. What choice do they have anyway.
Our online classes are cancelled. We got summer vacations now lol. And tbh it's much more fun. Because it gives us time to learn from online courses and stuff without many distractions. Though there's a con. We'll have no summer vacations.
Abdullah wrote: "Our online classes are cancelled. We got summer vacations now lol. And tbh it's much more fun. Because it gives us time to learn from online courses and stuff without many distractions. Though ther..."Ahan....good for you.. :)
I'm also doing some online courses, but all will be over after 13th.. 😅
It's a good thing they'll just teach 2 courses online... :)
Yeah I’m learning some stuff online too. Softwares mostly.
@Abdullah, Goodluck for when your actual summer vacation months arrive xD
Mod
> all courses online
> all labs online
> multiple assignments at once
> all on my own suggestions because I was the most vocal supporter of moving online
but heeey at least all course..."
link :V
Aakash wrote: "Jogi wrote: "tfw CS major> all courses online
> all labs online
> multiple assignments at once
> all on my own suggestions because I was the most vocal supporter of moving online
but heeey at lea..."
Try this: https://go.coursera.org/FxpldQtRxV1S
I’m not a CS major but we have an introductory programming course which I think I’m going to take on this website ahead of university schedule. It seems great!
Zarshal wrote: "I’m not a CS major but we have an introductory programming course which I think I’m going to take on this website ahead of university schedule. It seems great!"I suggest CS50.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Coursera is better for when you want to specialize in a subject.
Okayy. Thankyouu! :)
Zarshal wrote: "I’m not a CS major but we have an introductory programming course which I think I’m going to take on this website ahead of university schedule. It seems great!"Which programming language?
Jogi wrote: "Zarshal wrote: "I’m not a CS major but we have an introductory programming course which I think I’m going to take on this website ahead of university schedule. It seems great!"I suggest CS50.
ht..."
This seems amazing...we've already covered most of it in uni...but I guess I'd use this link for different perspective on things
Thanks. ^^
@Ahmed C, C++Although I’m still wondering why learning programming is a pre-req for an AutoCAD course. I’ve already learned AutoCAD before C++ and didn’t encounter a single issue.
Who decides our syllabus and courses?!?
Zarshal wrote: "@Ahmed C, C++Although I’m still wondering why learning programming is a pre-req for an AutoCAD course. I’ve already learned AutoCAD before C++ and didn’t encounter a single issue.
Who decides our..."
Actually, it's related but not that deeply. AutoCAD also has its own programming language called AutoLISP which is used to write code for repetitive tasks while working on a long project.
I'm doing the AutoCAD course this semester and also was not understanding why programming is the pre-rec...I googled the answer at that moment...😅😅
But as far as the uni is concerned, I'm not getting why it's the pre-requisite because our professor told us we are not gonna work with AutoLISP. So, technically, it makes sense, but my uni wise, it doesn't...😂
Maybe you guys will work on it in your uni...
For C:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjzfa...
For OOP (pre-rec for C++):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rCWi...
For C++:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuo9P...
I learned C and C++ from this man. I guess he is the best. Because our uni professor was not good for beginners and most of the times I missed a lot of things in the lec. I also tried to learn from many videos on YouTube but found this man the best. I'd recommend if you watch his lectures then listen at the speed of 1.5
Because he speaks way too slow.😅😅 At least for me..
No I don’t think we’ll work with autolisp because no one here even knows what that is. And we have Designing after that. So no point in teaching us c.Are you studying Civil Engineering?
Thanks for the links!
They are teaching you programming cuz they know Engineering doesn't have any jobs and ya'll are gonna end up in software freelancing anyway.
Zarshal wrote: "No I don’t think we’ll work with autolisp because no one here even knows what that is. And we have Designing after that. So no point in teaching us c.Are you studying Civil Engineering?"
Ahan... right...We're also doing just designing...
Nope, I'm doing Computer Engineering from COMSATS, Lahore.
No problem..I hope you'll like those videos..
Jogi wrote: "They are teaching you programming cuz they know Engineering doesn't have any jobs and ya'll are gonna end up in software freelancing anyway."You're right....
As I'm doing Computer Engineering (CE), we are also told the same thing
Actually, CE is 60% computer hardware and 40% software. It's the manufacturing of computer, mobiles etc from scratch.
We don't have enough manufacturing industries in Pakistan, we are helpless but to join software houses...
Only Computer Engineers can do both software and hardware jobs..or hybrid.
Otherwise engineers would have to do software freelancing if not their actual jobs.
Btw, I think Civil Engineering is best in Pakistan. Otherwise engineerings are not that great. Even I myself think Computer Engineering is not suitable for Pakistan..
But shoq ha computer ko A to Z samjhne ka... hardware and and software included...so yeah..😅
Civil engineering is good IF you get good teachers (which doesn’t happen very often here), otherwise you should just go to the contractors to learn how to do stuff. They’ll teach you better. I’ve studied survey but I still don’t know anything about it, which is why I’m gonna have to learn it from someone already on field. 🤷♀️Its just so frustrating at times..
@Jogi, freelancing is a good backup plan.
Zarshal wrote: "Civil engineering is good IF you get good teachers (which doesn’t happen very often here), otherwise you should just go to the contractors to learn how to do stuff. They’ll teach you better. I’ve s..."Ahan... it's also the type of engineering which cannot be learnt much from internet as a lot of field work is included.
Best of luck! 👍
May odds be in your favour.
That’s true too!Thanks xD
You too!
Zarshal wrote: "That’s true too!Thanks xD
You too!"
Thanks! :)
Mod
I suggest CS50.
ht..."
what are you doing in cs50? i have started the AI one what about yu?
Aakash wrote: "Jogi wrote: "Zarshal wrote: "I’m not a CS major but we have an introductory programming course which I think I’m going to take on this website ahead of university schedule. It seems great!"I sugg..."
I'm doing absolutely nothing with CS50. I don't know which AI course you're talking about. I did deeplearning.ai's specialization on coursera last year but I haven't done anything useful with that knowledge so far. Over and out.
Mod
the link youtube you have shared is CS50 from edx of computer science . recently they started another course called CS50 AI with python. so I was asking if you taking it as well.
Aakash wrote: "Jogi wrote: "Aakash wrote: "Jogi wrote: "Zarshal wrote: "I’m not a CS major but we have an introductory programming course which I think I’m going to take on this website ahead of university schedu..."Well, I wouldn't need that. I already know enough to do state-of-the-art work in AI if I wanted, but I'm lazy af. Plus Uni work is on my tail so it's hard to find time and energy for my own pursuits.
Ooh, CS50 is great course for beginners. I spent a few months doing it back in 2015. And that's the reason I developed interest in IT XD
Starting the book just now. I hope you guys are pretty much ahead of me XD
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