Everything You Need to Know as a Computer Science Student

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Boi here looking more and more like jesus everyday lol

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

Thanks for answering my question, man. Always top information

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.

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

I love your videos, you give me so much insight as I enter CS! Thanks for the awesome video.

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

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

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 big....... but thanks great video!

Thanks for the video bro this is helping me a lot. I’m gonna start my computer science college journey soon! I’m 28 waited a bit long to get into college. But I’m gonna give it my all

watching this video 3 year later as a fresman cs major. can't thank you enough for the tips and thing i've learned from watching your videos. also, i had no idea you went to odu, kinda crazy since i'm from virginia beach as well and was on the brink of attending there for school.

got good insights! thanks

Thanks! it really helped a lot

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).