#CS50

[studentbyday]

day 43 // 100dop

my brain still feels like sludge today but we're getting through things (albeit at a slower pace...)!

finished chem chapter

wrote the dreaded lab report introduction (it was not so dreadful to write it, it turns out...)

day 44 // 100dop && day 27 // 100doc

sent lab report

finished quiz (i got a B...it could've been worse but omg i was so tensed doing it, it felt terrible, and then after all that...i get that result, i expect better of myself!! 😮‍💨 🧘‍♀️ what's important is that i learn from my mistakes...)

finished data structures lecture

finished data structures practice problem

[macadamiastudies]

December 29th, 2024

Spent the day at a coffee shop, after a few days of not studying at all. I’ve been upset by some things in my personal life lately; i feel like I’m loosing my closest friend. On top of that, my family visiting for Christmas has made life extremely busy. I was still a bit down while studying- I still am and everything feels like it takes 45x more energy, but being in a familiar coffee shop in a new location really kept me going. I didn’t do too much, but I’m happy with today because 

I did something at least

I created a program I’ve been struggling with

What I got done today:

🧸Current CS50 unit (+ finished 4 remaining assignments for that unit) 🧸Completed an API/requests Python project 🧸Did my December budgeting 🧸Laundry + hanging up my clothes 🧸A little scrapbooking

To-do tomorrow:

📜Not break down 📜Study the next CS50 unit (lecture + notes + assignments) 📜Complete the next CS50 assignments 📜Make a collage to post

Playlist for today:

[coredumped69]

[second-hand-literateur]

I FINISHED THE PYTHON COURSE I WAS TAKING YEEEEHAW!

god that was four months of me STRUGGLING at developing a skill that I was really not good at and now I’m done!! And it feels great!! I can start coding like personal projects now 💪🙂‍↕️

[siddheshmm]

week 4. didn't exist in college. at home for a week.

rivers flooded due to dam waters release. it rained continuously monday through thursday. i am halfway through my cs50 course. i have so much to learn about. hopefully I get to attend a few lectures in college next week.

[pixel-cat-dev]

Day 1 of 100 Days of Code

It was a couple of months ago that a family member recommended that I tried coding and after watching a couple of videos and competing lecture and problem set 0 for CS50x, I fell in love.

It has been a bit of a struggle these past few months, I have felt a bit overwhelmed and intimidated. I stopped taking CS50 and tried to go on my own path. I started to learn python because it's what people recommended and overall my learning experience has felt a bit... unstructured. Like yes, I know the syntax of python but I skipped over the basics and now I don't know how to make anything with it.

During october I had kinda been debating on whether or not I should start again with CS50X, but I felt bit intimidated having to learn a new and lower level language, especially after pouring hours and breaking my head trying to understand python.

I don't know who said this or if this was a saying I came up with after reading hundreds of motivational posts but it kinda goes, "If you aren't uncomfortable, then your staginate."

To me learning C feels like a kick in the face, like I wasted all my time learning python just to have to admit defeat and learn, what I could have learned, months ago if I hadn't been so prideful.

But, looking back at the past few months, I haven't made much progress on my own. I'm stagnate. And the more I let my pride get the best of me the more I'm going to fall behind on my goals.

So, I guess after some fighting with myself I decided to continue with CS50x. And for the next 100 days I'm going to be working towards completing it, as well as CS50 Game Development if time permits.

[chiseld]

C is kicking my ass tonight :'( I seem to have forgotten some pretty basic stuff I thought I knew years ago. First, I couldn't get my code to correctly run the "strlen" function for so long that I got impatient and just wrote a string length function myself (I mean, it's easy enough, why not do it manually).

And then I got completely stuck while trying to concatenate characters one by one to an empty string after uppercasing each character. I presume the problem is that the non-existent string currently has garbage values in it, but I don't know how to handle that situation. Or could I somehow be using the "toupper" function wrong? Ugh, I don't know :/

Anyway, it completely fucked up my program – was clearly accessing memory it shouldn't be accessing, made my computer do a weird "bing" noise, etc. Not a great result :|

I see plenty of StackOverflow questions on this exact topic, but I don't want to use any techniques that we haven't already learned in this class so far, because I know we SHOULD be able to do it – it shouldn't be that hard. Blahhhh it's past midnight so I'll probably just call it night and come back with fresh eyes and brain cells tomorrow.

[scotisfr]

I just want to share the thing I did :

I'm just happy about it, so here's my assignment for my course CS50X : make a little program on Scratch. I did that in 4h and I'm pretty pretty happy about my horses terrorizing the forest x')

(the code is ugly, I know, I'm not into the logic of using boxes and not real code, I did my best and eh, I only used 4h to do that, so it will be ugly and I'm okay with that)

[mr-gromgy]

Hello, I have returned!!!

After months of grueling, selfimposed learning I have finished CS50's Introduction to Computer Science.

Yaaaaaaaay.

lookit this

Congratulation Me!

Now some of you, from my very huge following that absolutely exist, might be wondering what I created for my FINAL PROJECT!

it might just be one of the shittiest homage to the flash game "Dino Hills" made to this date.

Here is a video demonstration I had to make for the final project (Feat. myself and my very confident voice)

You want to play the game yourself? TOO BAD!

I still need to figure out how to host a game on the Internet

There are even worse news!

I only now figured out, after completing the course, that the Harvard certificate is more or less just a participation trophy.

My assignment is being graded by edx.org

If I'm unlucky, I 'll have to wait a month to see how well I did on the course and I'll have to shill out 200 bucks If i want to use that certificate

fuck

[chibidraws]

A starry-eyed coding enthusiast begins her journey..

[studentbyday]

day 43 // 100doc

finished sql lab

finished movies problem

worked on fiftyville - gotta check my queries tmr bc I don't get the right answers...

[valentine-aches]

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♡ about me:

┇name: Valentine

┇pronouns: he/him

┇age: 19

┇I’m autistic and have DID, and I have undiagnosed disabilities. I struggle mostly with chronic pain and fatigue. I’ve taken an interest in computer science and I’m hoping to go to school for it and get a job in the field since it will be a more accessible path for me. I blog about disability, magical girls, and programming. To see my art you can check me out over on @lamouratelier , which is also where I’ll follow from.

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♡ my favorite...

┇color: take a guess

┇animal: cats, giraffes, and rabbits 🐰

┇anime: puella magi madoka magica (!!!!) recently I’ve been watching hetalia ahgdhah

┇games: i havent been playing as much games as I used to but I’m trying to change that … I’ve been playing some splatoon 🦑 but I’m not very good at it.

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♡ interests & more!

┇likes: magical girls, eddsworld, splatoon, hetalia, classic literature, fashion

┇birthday: 11/22 (Sagittarius)

┇timezone: MST (noc)

┇dm status: open :]

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[coredumped69]

CS50P final project:

I think this will be my final project, I think... 🤡

[soboredidecidedtolearnthings]

#3 pseudocode, ai, and scratch

Still watching the rest of the first class, and found it interesting how they present the idea of writing the pseudocode already kinda thinking about the code itself, which is something interesting for me, that actually helps a lot. Less because I can actually do it, but because it can be useful to signal to yourself what to do if you don't know how to implement it.

The idea is that, in here —

— the verbs sort of work as functions, else/if are conditionals, "go back" means a loop.

It's simple, but in my mind I can already see this helping so much. I kinda need this more or less 1:1 relationship between a language I can understand and a language I'm learning (considering code like just another language like English, French, etc). Mapping those relationships when then exist is helpful to understand the logic of everything, and makes it clearer and more easy to understand when the relationship is NOT perfect equivalent or when there's no equivalent at all.

This is gonna help a lot actually.

And gotta love how they unmasked AI right out of bat.

It really is just complex conditionals, isn't it? There's a lot of impressive tech around it, but I have so much beef with AI. The ethics of where and how to use it and train it are still sketchy, and that clip of OpenAI's CTO purposefully failing to answer questions about Sora doesn't help any of my concerns.

Still, that cat is out of the bag, and the tech itself is useful and amazing, when used for good. It's a great assistant for humans, and can be used for learning in interesting ways, if you use it knowing that it's just a very good statistical machine — and that the answer that come out of it might not be true at all.

It makes me immensely happy that they made the duck debugger (lol) available all around. It's the kinda use of AI that I can get behind.

Finally, I'm also a little in love with Scratch. It's exactly the kind of "for kids" thing that I absolutely need to start out and feel like I can actually get this done.

This kind of thing makes me miss college a lot. I was kind of made for learning, and for academia, even if academia wasn't made for me, and taking this class has made me feel like myself for the first time in a very long time.

I'm looking forward to facing the first set or problems, actually. Seeing what I can do with that.

[gennycodes]

Hello, world!

Hi

I'm Genny (pronounced like Jenny). I am very early in my journey of learning code. I started CS50x and am currently working through the week 1 lecture and practising to code alongside.

About me: I have a Graphic Design degree, I currently work in education, with SEND students, I am a bit of a nerd, I used to be in a lot of fandoms, when I was a teenager, back in the good ol' Tumblr days, I have a cat

I am sure I will write more in due time...

[the-coding-cat]

Biting off more than I can chew

Hello, everyone! I posted a couple of weeks ago about my first-ever project and what I was planning to work on. I've been working on it for a month now, and it has been one of the most challenging yet rewarding experiences I've had in my relatively short time coding.

I've always been someone who tends to play it safe and stay within my comfort zone, which has led to stagnation in many of my other hobbies. However, with coding, I wanted to break that habit of mine.

I aimed to step outside my comfort zone and create a text-based version of Monopoly. I knew it would be a challenge, but I convinced myself that I could do it. I created this account to keep myself accountable and keep working on the project even when I didn't feel like it. But over the past few days, I've found myself extremely frustrated, and coding has felt more like a chore that I have to force myself to do.

I think in my eagerness to step outside my comfort zone and in the excitement of having my first official project, I set myself up for failure. When I started coding this whole thing, I had no idea what a list or a dictionary was, nor how they were used.

To put it simply, I put the cart before the horse.

With all of this said, I'm putting the project on pause and shifting my focus to learning the basics of coding. I'll still post about some of the smaller-scale and simpler projects I'm working on.

Thank you all for your support; it means the world to me. Have a great day!