/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10691803
if you rely on it to get you places, it's a meme. If you reap the institution for all it's worth by taking everything via springerlink, the library system, the labs and research rooms, clubs, and professor guidance, then I'd say that university is more than damn worth it. It doesn't even really matter what field you go into; use your resources wisely. Always always always always go to office hours
>Political Science and Computer Science
If you want to do polysci proper, do a history or sociology degree with good research under good professors, maybe an undergrad thesis, and then apply for graduate programs in polysci. If you want to go into hardcore CS and not just software engie, do math + CS double major. I made a long list of classes / topics / books you ought to use here (will probably clean up into a pastebin link with a clean list and without reddit spacing sometime): >>10690181

>>9813647
Yeah, it was a disappointment to say the least. CS is non-memey my school, and while we typically don't get to hardware design, we get a good amount of switching theory and digital logic design in our architecture classes. Our big topics were:

Numerical representation (IEEE floats, 2's comp numbers, bit shift tricks, some hardware algorithms like Booth's multiplication)

Assembly (compilation basics, hardware specific instructions, translating both ways, stack building, etc.). We used a subset of x86 rather than RISC since we used linux machines to write our stuff

Digital logic design (your typical transistors, gates, combinations, K maps, tables, rewrite rules, latches, clocks, etc.)

Caching (L caches, methods of caching, writing a cache, measuring efficiencies, etc.)

I think that, for a course that was supposed to be an intro to the low abstraction courses in CS, it was a good curriculum with challenging projects

>>9813645
Our CS has an easier route and the hard route. The easy route has some software engineering classes that people don't take seriously, etc. However, the hard route that requires a lot of math prerequisites are a lot of fun and take up a lot of time. The people who end up on this track typically break into either the big companies or into the prestigious universities for graduate education.

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