#or something compsci related

[nxmelessfighter]

// just trying to figure out what modern au karachan would be doing

[000bun]

im trying to decide on a major for bakugo for my college au im working on and its stressing me out so bad you'd think i'm picking out a major for myself

[foreseers-flower]

i know it's kind of a joke to pursue an english degree. i know that. but i honestly don't know how im going to graduate college if i dont study something i care about and the only thing i give a shit about is writing </3. i wish i had the strength to finish my compsci degree bc i do enjoy it, but it's not enough to get me through the grueling misery that is school. ive pretty much always hated school and ive been trying to get through it but its just not working </3

i dont want to be poor </3 i know realistically i should not pursue english bc i dont want to be poor </3 but whatever im doing now is just not working. i think i could probably graduate within two years if i did something related to humanities. but it feels like a joke to do that.

but i dont want to continue on stem. i dont have any passion for it at all </3 i dont hate it.

ive also been considering trade school but i dont really know what i would wanna do there and i am a little concerned about misogyny. in short i dont know what im doing with my life at all even a little. and i need to be shot point blank range

[komohine]

hisssss 🐺🐺🐺⛓️⛓️⚔️hi I’m back and with a few questions all about the college au

1. how did James and Keith meet? not sure if this one has been answered or not

2. do they live in the same dorm? if so, what does their room look like?

3. what are james’ relations to the other paladins (pidge, allura, etc.)?

4. james and keith. what are their favourite places? also not sure if this has been answered

5. does keith have a singular conscious and living parent

6. what are the other paladins majors/jobs?

expand on these however much you like c:

Answering this at 3 am when i need to be up at like 7 am… whatever (i cant sleep 😞)

1) teeechnically a group project in a gen ed breadth elective. Not a great start, they hated eachother all throughout first year. Their first proper introduction was when keith got hired to be the night shift cashier at james’ favourite convenience store (that he exclusively visits at night). Keith has sold him hundreds of cig packs!

2) nope! Keith lives on campus (got lucky every year) and james lives in his rich person 2 bedroom apartment near campus. Keith does eventually move in around year 4 though. And its as youd expect: james’ rich minimalism + keith’s grungy maximalism. Very contrasting but it fits. Banged up guitar and amp next to a statement art piece works really well, surprisingly.

3) hes kind of an older brother figure to pidge cause he sees a lot of himself in her. He’s also pretty good friends w allura bcs they both run in the elite social circles and they both find it tiring and pretentious as fuck. The other paladins didnt like him at all bcs of how he came off (arrogant and such) but end up liking him when he starts paying for their groceries (all of them are broke and can barely afford groceries).

4) didn’t really think about this one! I would assume wherever the other is, though. Keith loves his bed for sure (me too man).

5) yep! He has krolia (karina in this universe). She’s in the military

6) pidge is compsci, lance is a teaching major iirc, hunk got in for engineering but switched to culinary science, shiro is a TA mastering in… something, and allura seems like she’d be in health sciences. Not sure abt jobs, hunk prob works as a chef somewhere, pidge makes custom websites for clubpenguin megastars and scams ppl on animal jam

[ratcandy]

deciding to get a certificate in something compsci related while everything with chatgpt and gen ai is going on sure was a decision i made and boy do i start deteriorating from it every day

[johnnyheavenly6]

this is something that may only be funny to me, but i wanted to share my few compsci related memes i made for my midterms and finals

[princesamermaid]

like also um earlier i just waved at compsci guy bc i wanted to ask him to help with something work related and he was like whats up (name) :-) and then like rlly nice to me suddenly bc usually we just dont say anything at all to each other and then later he even went to help me pick something off the floor i had dropped and this was like so unnevessary for real bc like it was a rlly tiny thing that i was already picking up and he was carrying other stuff. its like magic but im like. petrified of actually doing stuff so usually i do nothing and just act like a mannequin i feel trapped in my body sometimes like why dont u do something why dont you do something 😔

[eleventeenratsinaflannelsuit]

Exerpts from my absolute onslaught of “clarifying” comments on my “simple” calculator assignmeng for AP compsci principles (it is over 182 lines long)

(we’re starting our python unit. I already know basically everything that will be taught in this unit. wtf (teacher said ill get to code fish game as a project if i want /pos))

#unrelated but have you seen that one code of a like, C# or java coded calculator that can add/subtract/divide/multiply any two individual numbers up to 60-something and the coder did it by coding something else to hard code every operation. like, if num1=3 and num2=5 and operation=addition answer=8 type of thing? terrifying. I want to do it. (i looked for the code but couldn't find it (sad))

#I need blank lines and I can't be bothered to check if /n works in python. Also this is funnier [in relation to me using 'print("")' to get blank lines on the terminal]

#I don't want to code in fault tolerance and that stuff so... yeah if you do something wrong the server is down

#help how do i python for loop with a variable

#lol i don't need python for loop here

#etc.

#kindness matters :)

#(extra or statements to account for user error (i don't want to figure out how to ignore whether a letter is caps or lowercase so i will instead code more. This is my mantra.))

#(you know it's sad that python doesn't use semicolons to seperate commands because in languages that do use it I can just code EVERYTHING on one line and the camp counselors didn't like that but they couldn't do anything because it was technically correct lol)

[doki-doki-lesbians-club]

My headcanons for the girls’ careers are:

Sayori: I’m thinking she’d be a paediatrician or something. Her childhood sort of sucked ass, and she seems like the sort of person to take that as a reason to help others through stuff like that

Natsuki: something art related, but she can never really stick to one thing. She’d go into manga illustration, and realize she FAR prefers reading it over making it.

Yuri: probably a writer. That just seems like her thing.

Monika: psychologist. I don’t think I need to explain that one

I adore these ideas! Seriously, I love it!

I was thinking about this since I'm planning a slow burn fic that follows the girls thru high school and beyond, so here's what I got:

Sayori: I actually paint her as the most poetry-brained of the lot! She inspires them to start writing and sharing poetry in the first place, and after high school she tries to make it as a writer/poet! I think the fact that she's so in touch with her positive and negative emotions gives her some pretty great insight for poetry.

Monika: Computer Science! As a sort of reference to her role programming in the original game, I think it's just kinda funny to have her be a CompSci major. I also feel like I've seen this used elsewhere?

Natsuki: I've seen her shown as a baker a lot, like, working in a bakery, and I'm not one to break that streak! I think that's very fitting as a day job, at least. I think she'd also run some sort of blog or online group that makes fan translations of manga and fan subtitles for anime!

Yuri: A lot of people paint her as the writer type, but I think she'd be far too nervous to write to be published. She might write for fun, or for her friends, but I don't think she'd be willing to go public. She probably works in a library or some similar place. (can anyone spell "hot librarian"?)

Those are just my thoughts, obviously! Thanks for sharing yours! I love it a lot :D

[jayesprite]

are dirk and jaye graduating with you

yeah :) honestly when i've been writing them i've been imagining them as college students. dirk is getting a compsci degree and jaye is getting an english degree with a focus in creative writing because i think he deserves a degree that isn't business related.

(jake is doing something in biology i think and roxy's an art school drop out who lives with them but she plans on going back. while obviously the obvious answer for her would be some sort of science degree i think it was a situation where she thinks about what degree would make her want to kill herself the least. she witnessed jake's workload real time and now she's like hmm maybe architecture. she doesn't know that's not any better. originally it was graphic design.)

they were scared for a little while that dirk wasn't going to graduate with the rest of them because he fell seriously behind in classes but he and jaye took some summer classes and they're good now.

so everyone say congrats to jake, jaye and dirk graduating this saturday!!!!! jake already has a job lined up with a former professor as a research assistant :)

[misskamelie]

There is a glass between me and others, I can't explain how much I miss it I miss it I miss it I miss you

[loser-female]

do you have any advice for finding an entry level compsci job? I'm still working on my BS and my non- job related experience hasn't been enough 😕

(not picky about any specific area)

Hi!

So I assume the US, right? (I'm European and our market is different here).

If I were a student here is how I would do it:

Create a resume and really pump your soft skills like team work and project management;

If your university offers them I'd join a club of an area of your interest such as coding, robotics, hacking... I know it feels like a waste of time, but it's still experience, regardless of the result (you don't have to win any competition to show your skills, counterintuitive I know), you will be able to show that you successfully dealt with a complicated project. That's a thing that when I was doing my rounds of interview were highly considered. You can always learn this or that language of programming but they already want a team player and one that's not afraid to take the reins when needed. If your university doesn't offer them there are online teams (or you can set up one by yourself) that do the same thing. For example I do a lot of "capture the flags", hacking challenges. They are a fun, challenging way to learn something, network with others and show how good you are.

A lot of companies (at least mine and few others in Europe did!) have these paid internships where they will teach you a job. This is a good way to get a foot in the door in cybersecurity since a lot of time even a compsci degree won't teach you anything about the subject. And training an analyst from scratch is extremely expensive, so you also have leverage for negotiating once your internship is over;

Consider taking a comptia certification! I recommend them for beginners because they are relatively cheap and are widely recognised. Comptia A+ is a good addition to a student's resume. The "three basics" comptia certifications are: A+ (for general IT), network+ and security+. They are ~300$/each.

I think I've covered most of it. You could also do a portfolio if coding is your thing, but I don't know anything about it.

Also I always suggest sending a resume if you hit 70% of what's requested, not 100%.

Plus! There are few professional associations that can help you locally! In Europe we have the Women4Cyber initiative. They will give you training, consultations etc about your career. I unfortunately don't know if there is an American one.

I hope this helps!

[star-girl69]

My issue with ap gov is 1. My sister (a good writer, who now studies something related to law at an ivy league) said the class was easy (and me, a not so very good writer, finds out I am not so well equipped for upcoming ap test) and 2. I do not care about the government. Or amsco. Or random ass facts about the bureaucracy. I am literally a math/compsci nerd.

Lessons you learn! Our teacher is a great guy but whew.

i don’t care about government or amsco or random ass facts about the bureaucracy so i feel confident in my choice thank you 🙏🙏🙏

[insertcleverusername101]

Warning: This is a very long, very tech related post, which expands on the post above in a very winding way. If that doesn't interest you, do not proceed.

I am a Gen Z systems administrator (IT guy, techie, etc. for those of you who have not heard the term before). And let's be clear, I didn't end up in this position because I'm some kind of computer genius freak who's been a compsci-doctorate level programmer since I was eight years old (I have been programming since I was ten, but it was pretty much at an age appropriate level). I can:

Use Google.

Withstand enough of Microsoft, and when the occasion calls for it Apple's, bullshit with enough patience to fix most problems.

Make use of available diagnostic methods and tools to isolate problems to specific programs and hardware in computers, which relates back to option one.

Read hard to read technical documents, logs, and discussions to get information that is not immediately clear.

I am very rarely innovating new methods of finding things. I rarely work on issues that no one has encountered or fixed before (although it has happened a few times, it happens to every sysadmin). The skillset I have is, on some level, interchangeable with every mechanic or technician for any machine ever made, including cars, ships, and planes.

And, ultimately, the need for that skillset is what's missing from computers nowadays. It used to be, to use a desktop, even on the most basic rudimentary level, required you to have some technical skill. Without a GUI, you would have to know how to load programs and navigate a filesystem in DOS. You would have to know how to un-park the heads on a disk, and park them when you were done. How to operate a modem.

Doing the basic stuff, up until like, Windows 7 (and the release of the iPhone, the first ever smartphone two years earlier), took some level of technical acumen. Want to mod a game? Have fun downloading janky third party mod packers and managers, and editing files manually inside the game config. Same problem for getting games as a whole. Buy the CD. Put it in your computer. Doesn't work because you have dependencies missing. The dependencies also have missing dependencies, which you then have to find. Packages are missing. So on and so forth. Keeping your stuff running the way you wanted was hard.

Now? Not so much. Windows does a lot in the backend on computer systems. As an example to contrast something I brought up in the previous paragraph is Steam, and other similar stores. One click to install with all dependencies, and one click to install mods. And more importantly, us sysadmins do even more shit on the backend on incredibly powerful commercial systems which are also very heavily integrated and automated. But it's all still there.

These systems, much like many things in our society, are designed to discourage user-level fixes. But you can still do it, even if everything has been designed to cut out that basic level skillset development.

What's really killing us here is that we're giving the very young highly commercialized and consumer oriented devices like iPads to play with, which reinforces this anti-problem solving, "there's always an app for that" style of thinking.

We can and should have those devices, don't get me wrong. There is a place for them where reliability is at a premium, and you just need things to work and be simple for performing low level tasks. I manage multiple construction companies, and a few of them make incredibly effective use of managed tablets and iPads for on-site management personnel, like foremen and project managers, to give a practical example. Easy to set up, easy to swap around, and easy to use with very low failure rates. Great for people who don't need to do super technical work but need to be very effective communicators.

But that's not what we should be teaching people on, because it ruins any chance at proper problem-solving thinking. What we want to train them on is a system that has room for failure, and room for troubleshooting. And that is where the open source and full desktop environments comes to the rescue.

If you want your kid to learn how a computer works, give them a locked down (or not-so-locked down, up to you) Windows PC. Or even better, give them a clean copy of Ubuntu on a laptop with a touchscreen to work with for their childhood. Shit will break, fail, go lopsided, bug out, etc. Part of the cost for using that device will, inevitably, be learning how to fix it, and also as they get older, fixing it themselves.

We can bring these skills back. But it means, like in all things, standing up and resisting the ever encroaching rise of corporations and their locked down technology.

another thought about "gen z and gen alpha don't know how to use computers, just phone apps" is that this is intentionally the direction tech companies have pushed things in, they don't want users to understand anything about the underlying system, they want you to just buy a subscription to a thing and if it doesn't do what you need it to, you just upgrade to the more expensive one. users who look at configuration files are their worst nightmare

[yunant]

DES303: Week 4a - Tech Demo Reflection

In this blog, I will reflect on my time in the class's tech demo using the Gibb framework as a guide, unpacking in 5 and 1/2 stages. Description, Feelings, Evaluation, Analysis, Conclusion and Action Plan. Here will be my thoughts on the week on what went down.

Description During my tech demo presentation, I briefly discussed everything that was from week 2 to week 3, and how I developed my brainstormed ideas and related them to local issues in the 2020s. Topics referred to were the introduction of generative AI into the creative industry and how it could possibly affect creatives, or if this technology is disruptive and could put certain jobs at risk.

The main argument I was presenting was that artists who earn a living creating original artwork could be impacted by the negative side effects of AI art. With my slides, I was forthright about the range of my skills and the depth of my knowledge as a student, giving them a glimpse of what I am interested in and why. The content includes samples of art drawn by me in Procreate and art manipulated in Photoshop, all showcasing how a cycle of art could be created in the world of concept art. A manifesto was created for the last slide to summarise the overall message and its themes.

Feelings Overall, I felt this tech demo could have been a little better, as I felt the slides were a little unfocused on a specific area I wanted to explore. Structurally, my presentation lacked a narrow angle, and that led to some group members being either unable to follow or disinterested in my content. As I was presenting the written material verbally, I had many difficulties trying to get across what I was trying to convey and was not very successful at it.

By the feedback of what my group members had to say, the overall response was that it was interesting sometimes but I had to work on my presentation abilities. Speaking to crowds had never been easy, even on good days. From my perspective, this part was always been an obstacle, which is the ever-ominous pervading demand of having to speak to an audience that I find challenging at all times. In truth, this obstacle would always confront me no matter where and I appreciate this was pointed out early during the course.

Evaluation Other than the area of my verbal communication being highlighted as in need of improvement, the final product was fine for the most part. The part that I needed to develop more was showing the details of the craft. I believe if I were to assess how well I performed, I may have gone a little off track and focused on theory and research rather than demonstrating what my skills are.

In my feedback, there were some comments suggesting it would have been a better demonstration if I opened up my Procreate or Photoshop and showed them how all of the making behind the scenes worked for my final product. For example, with Procreate, some members wanted to know the specific techniques I used to create my textures for the characters I've drawn, which was selecting the right brush and smudging the shading until the blend was just right.

Analysis The second conundrum in the room that may cause a strain later down the line is that I am not a computer scientist, nor do I have a background in computer science. As mentioned before, I am not a highly qualified expert in either programming or art - my position would always be from the view of a Designer. This precludes that I cannot provide an insightful analysis of the inner components of how AI algorithms work, such as the data being trained on and who gets to keep the data. An acknowledgement of my position would be apt for the next phase of this project, being transparent with the audience about my skillsets. Since I could never manifest something as competent as a COMPSCI student, I must know my scope and how to enact it as a designer.

Conclusion & Action Plan In summary, my demo had mixed reviews with underlying gaps in my delivery and my understanding of the topics I was presenting. What was not accounted for was that everyone in the group had varying ranges of background knowledge in diverging disciplines as Designers, while I spoke as though I assumed they knew on the same level as me [which is in graphic design specifically]. What this session has enlightened me is the priority to be a more effective communicator in my engagement, not by WHAT I present but HOW I do it. If I may confess, there are moments I feel the need to create something profound for a high achievement or to prove myself, so scaling back and focusing on the essential rubric helps.

The plan for the next stage is to dedicate more time to proofreading my work and getting more feedback from my tutors and peers to ensure I am on course. The aim and lesson taught here was to not go so far out of my way to be groundbreaking or revolutionary but to synthesize existing creations into an original piece of work. The next set of actions is researching, ideating, and iterating with fruitful feedback in between the sessions. I would need to remember that everything that works has been designed, and chances are, there are existing sample projects that could help me gain more insight.

Here is the Miro board archiving my progress:

[hrtzbeat]

What do you do? I thought it was art-related or something /gen /nf

lol no. i'm nowhere near talented to do smth like an art degree. i'm actually doing my master's in compsci atm (with machine learning/ai + cybersecurity as my specialty)