/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12095961]

Dropping history and trying to teach myself computer science. Do you guys have any of those 4chan guides? Or advice on where to start?

Pic related something like this but for a guide on how to get decent at computer science.

[Anonymous No.12095969]

>>12095961
Proptip, do not trust any of the math book flowcharts on this site. A year ago when I first started college I thought they were legit, but now that I'm familiar with the various fields of math, I realize now that they are terrible. They not only repeat the same concepts over and over, but also fail to put it in an order that would allow for the best understanding.

[Anonymous No.12095976]

>>12095969
Then what do I do??

[Anonymous No.12096191]

>>12095969
what do i do then nigga

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>>12095969
This.

I feel like half the time people are just posting their amazon textbook recommendations for math or physics.

[Anonymous No.12096522]

>>12096262
Can confirm, based list for easy reading and you can find solution manuals bc it's not like you're gonna know how to prove anything without memorizing the proof in the first place

[Anonymous No.12097442]

>>12095969
>>12096272

What do then?

What are Your recommendations?

[Anonymous No.12097444]

>>12096248
What the hell is this esoteric basedkaf??

[Anonymous No.12098137]

Make one for biology.
Anyway I already know how it is gonna be:
1ºLevel:
Your introduction college book for biology
Your introduction college book for chemistry
Your introduction college book for Earth Science
Maybe one for Enviromental Science
2ºLevel
Your introduction college book for biochemistry
Your introduction college book for physiology
Your introduction college book for molecular biology
3ºLevel
A book for genetics
A book for microbiology
A book for plant/animal biology if it is your shit
A book for evolution/paleontology if it is your shit
A book for virology/inmunology if it is your shit
etc

[Anonymous No.12098710]

>>12095976
>>12096191
>>12097442
Just go to some university math department webpage and look at their course progression for math majors. Normally a math education falls into "computational" math courses, then into "theoretical" courses. The former is just calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations, generally in that order. Maybe throw in a discrete math class if you want. Follow a university course progression for this and you should be good to go. No need to read spivak or apostol, you're most likely not trained in proofs and its going to burn you out. Just get whatever the course syllabus recommends honestly, and do the homework/problem sets they give out. If you don't want the textbook, get whatever book the /sci/ wiki recommends.

The second phase is higher level "theoretical" math. The problems people face here is they dont have the mathematical maturity to understand proof writing or the abstractions that come with studying these upper level courses, so they end up hitting a wall. When it comes to "mathematical logic" and foundational approaches to math, don't pay attention to the autistic guides that make you read three books on propositional logic. Instead, just read three books pertaining to the subjects in the following order:

1. Propositional and Predicate logic
2. Naive Set Theory
3. Intro to Proofs

And thats it. Reading in this order will prepare you for areas in abstract algebra/analysis and beyond. Thats all there is to a math education, and by the time you're studying abstract algebra you will already have the mathematical maturity and knowledge to not need a guide to tell you where to go next. Keep in mind that this would take 2-3 years to do. Mathematical maturity takes time to cultivate, and is not expedited by following some guide. You have to learn to appreciate and understand whats going on, or youre going to burn out.

[Anonymous No.12099630]

>>12095961
https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science?delta=0
It feels like a meme, but it's actually a really good course

[Anonymous No.12101153]

>>12098710
based and truthpilled

[Anonymous No.12101676]

>>12098710
wtf, is there nothing useful in those /sci/ meme charts? Are they pretty much just troll charts then?

[Anonymous No.12101865]

>>12095961
Posting the ones I have from /sci/ and /g/ since you asked for it.
You've been warned.
If you have to start with a book, i'd say CODE by Charles Petzold. That plus calculus and start learning programming, and you pretty much have the first semester in a CS program.

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>>12095961
Learn C then Python.

[Anonymous No.12102056]

I was just about to make a thread to ask if these books were memes. They're all 400+ pages of pure work. Idk if they're memes or if I just don't know how to read textbooks effectively. A lot are extremely boring.

[Anonymous No.12103757]

Bump

[Anonymous No.12103766]

>>12102056
i have no experience with math or economics and i can just tell that's clearly a funny meme guide that all the people who have studied that field of mathematics think is hilarious
i have no evidence of this other than my intuition but i remain convinced of it

[Anonymous No.12103773]

>>12095969
Actually, there two are fairly good:

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[Anonymous No.12104002]

>>12096248
Lol 5 years I could do this in a summer

[Anonymous No.12104006]

>>12103766
See, I think it's memes too, but there's so many posted I don't know what to think and I wanna self teach with some guidance.