Your fav subject?

Sindar said:
Well you can't compare them =) Calculus as a college course is just a very small thing, you can fit it into maybe 50-100 lectures (or one or two textbooks) and cover everything in as much detail as you want. Computer Science is more like a congregation of a dozen of technological fields, sciences and course sets. You probably can't cover everything in CS in 5 years =)
But still there are things that make Calculus interesting. Like, try to think what a gradient of a function means if you define the function in configuration space, or how you describe rotation of a vector in four dimensional Euclidean space :youarecool: I don't know, I like those kind of problems, they are more about understanding how things work than doing actual calculations ^^

I work out the syllabus in such way that I have enough time to finish everything. It is not like someone is telling me to squeeze an unreasonable amount if material into 16 lectures =)
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Yup. I doubt I can cover everything in CS even if I spend my entire life learning =)
I know. I used to find math fun. But after becoming a CS student I can't seem to remember why I found any other subject fun. Since I have never had as much fun learning things as I am having now =) If I get a chance I want to learn more about CS instead of spending my time learning something else :full:

Wow. It is amazing you can do that. My lecturers have hard time completing our syllabus during the 60 hours they get. They take extra classes sometimes :huh:
 
MadaraUchiha said:
@[Sindar] I too prefer MIT and edX..............
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Did you try any of their courses recently?

Shaurya said:
Yup. I doubt I can cover everything in CS even if I spend my entire life learning =)
I know. I used to find math fun. But after becoming a CS student I can't seem to remember why I found any other subject fun. Since I have never had as much fun learning things as I am having now =) If I get a chance I want to learn more about CS instead of spending my time learning something else :full:

Wow. It is amazing you can do that. My lecturers have hard time completing our syllabus during the 60 hours they get. They take extra classes sometimes :huh:
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I wonder how it works, why we pick different subjects (or entire fields of knowledge, as it is in your case) and get attached to it. If I want to be cynical about it I can suggest that we pick what we are good at and go with it. Or I can say that we get attached to whatever we have to study. Or I can say that we learn to like what is useful to us. But none of those explanations seem fully satisfying. I mean, maybe those are the reasons we feel good about studying, and the reasons we invest our time into it, that seems to be fair enough. But why we like the subject itself (as oppose to our achievements in its study), get curious to know more about it, think about it in our free time, I don't think those are easy questions. There should be a reason though. I think =)

I am glad we don't have such strict rules =) I offered extra classes to my students too last semester. I could have avoided doing it though, but I felt like they needed more time for that one class.
 
Sindar said:
MadaraUchiha said:
@[Sindar] I too prefer MIT and edX..............
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Did you try any of their courses recently?

Shaurya said:
Yup. I doubt I can cover everything in CS even if I spend my entire life learning =)
I know. I used to find math fun. But after becoming a CS student I can't seem to remember why I found any other subject fun. Since I have never had as much fun learning things as I am having now =) If I get a chance I want to learn more about CS instead of spending my time learning something else :full:

Wow. It is amazing you can do that. My lecturers have hard time completing our syllabus during the 60 hours they get. They take extra classes sometimes :huh:
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I wonder how it works, why we pick different subjects (or entire fields of knowledge, as it is in your case) and get attached to it. If I want to be cynical about it I can suggest that we pick what we are good at and go with it. Or I can say that we get attached to whatever we have to study. Or I can say that we learn to like what is useful to us. But none of those explanations seem fully satisfying. I mean, maybe those are the reasons we feel good about studying, and the reasons we invest our time into it, that seems to be fair enough. But why we like the subject itself (as oppose to our achievements in its study), get curious to know more about it, think about it in our free time, I don't think those are easy questions. There should be a reason though. I think =)

I am glad we don't have such strict rules =) I offered extra classes to my students too last semester. I could have avoided doing it though, but I felt like they needed more time for that one class.
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I ve watched the lectures of Walter Lewin on electrostatics............
 
Sindar said:
I wonder how it works, why we pick different subjects (or entire fields of knowledge, as it is in your case) and get attached to it. If I want to be cynical about it I can suggest that we pick what we are good at and go with it. Or I can say that we get attached to whatever we have to study. Or I can say that we learn to like what is useful to us. But none of those explanations seem fully satisfying. I mean, maybe those are the reasons we feel good about studying, and the reasons we invest our time into it, that seems to be fair enough. But why we like the subject itself (as oppose to our achievements in its study), get curious to know more about it, think about it in our free time, I don't think those are easy questions. There should be a reason though. I think =)

I am glad we don't have such strict rules =) I offered extra classes to my students too last semester. I could have avoided doing it though, but I felt like they needed more time for that one class.
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Yup. It is weird. I wasn't interested in CS at first. It was probably because my dad chose it. He thought it would be suitable for a girl -_- I didn't like that idea but I didn't have any course I was interested in enough to fight with him for it. So I sort of let him choose my branch. I guess I kinda resented that idea and I decided that I didn't like CS even before I got to know what it has to offer. But I couldn't do it for long. The more I learnt about CS, the more I fell in love with it. And now I don't think I can live without learning more about CS =) So even though I started walking this path without thinking I am glad I chose CS. When I think about why I like CS, I never find an answer =)

Good for them. Two of my lecturers took 2 extra classes every week during my first year :noway3:
 
MadaraUchiha said:
I ve watched the lectures of Walter Lewin on electrostatics............
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Ah, 8.02x. He is pretty good teacher =) And certificates from his courses are the ones I am proud of the most : D


Shaurya said:
Yup. It is weird. I wasn't interested in CS at first. It was probably because my dad chose it. He thought it would be suitable for a girl -_- I didn't like that idea but I didn't have any course I was interested in enough to fight with him for it. So I sort of let him choose my branch. I guess I kinda resented that idea and I decided that I didn't like CS even before I got to know what it has to offer. But I couldn't do it for long. The more I learnt about CS, the more I fell in love with it. And now I don't think I can live without learning more about CS =) So even though I started walking this path without thinking I am glad I chose CS. When I think about why I like CS, I never find an answer =)

Good for them. Two of my lecturers took 2 extra classes every week during my first year :noway3:
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If one day you do find the answer it would be really interesting to hear it =)
 
Sindar said:
If one day you do find the answer it would be really interesting to hear it =)
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I'll let you know if I ever find the answer. I doubt it will happen though :angel:
 
Design for Digital Media. It's more or less a graphics class that does a bit of web design too :)
 
Future said:
Design for Digital Media. It's more or less a graphics class that does a bit of web design too :)
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What do they teach you in those classes? I imagine it is more than how to use programs like Photoshop and 3ds max =)

tdbnz said:
I love chef Training it very fun :)
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You are studying to become a chef, or is it just another subject in your curriculum? In either case it sounds fun =) I wonder how they teach this kind of thing. Do they make you prepare different kinds of dishes? : D
 
Electronic circuts was my favorite in while in college untill i was introduced to computers.. Later this interest moved to programming and web technologies..
 
jittopjose said:
Electronic circuts was my favorite in while in college untill i was introduced to computers.. Later this interest moved to programming and web technologies..
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Oh, you will find a couple of people who would approve of your choice here : D When I was a student I wasn't able to appreciate my circuits course, mostly because it requited more solid background in physics and mathematics than what I had back then. I think now I would have been able to get much more from it, but alas, now I don't study electronics anymore >_>

JS45 said:
I always liked English and any literature class.
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I assume it is your first language? I have heard that in English speaking countries they teach English in elementary school and then they replace it with a literature class.
 
Well since I currently am studying for my degree in IT cyber security, that subject of technology is my main interest. After all I love computers, modifying them, building them, coding, programming, web design, and with my niche being the internet above all, I figure I could do well in the IT cyber security field. My other favorite is most definitely history, mainly military history.
 
I've always been into mythology. Learning about the pagan gods such as Odin, Thor, Loki or Zeus, Apollo, Athena, or Hades. Pretty interesting stuff.
 
Iron Eagle said:
Well since I currently am studying for my degree in IT cyber security, that subject of technology is my main interest. After all I love computers, modifying them, building them, coding, programming, web design, and with my niche being the internet above all, I figure I could do well in the IT cyber security field. My other favorite is most definitely history, mainly military history.
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A lot of people like IT here it seems =) By military history, do you mean the history of different wars and conflicts, or history of military technologies, weapons, armor etc.?

Jupiter Zero said:
I've always been into mythology. Learning about the pagan gods such as Odin, Thor, Loki or Zeus, Apollo, Athena, or Hades. Pretty interesting stuff.
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So you mainly interested in Greek and Scandinavian mythology?
 
Arcusma said:
Art, Design or graphics! :))
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Awesome, show us some of your works sometime =)

Spiegs said:
Tie between Chemistry and Global History
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Wow, pretty good choice. Not many people favor Chemistry, but it is an interesting subject ^^ Do you like any chemistry, or something specific, like organic chemistry or non organic, or something else? I too like History, btw =)
 
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