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im a high school senior, starting college in the fall. im going to be a computer science major but i dont know much code besides some very basic html/css(both of which dont even relate to comp sci) and c#. what do to ensure i dont get assraped by the courseload?

pic related: my future college

>> No.7194783

>>7194780
lube up well

>> No.7194785

>>7194780
Starting there in the fall too

>> No.7194787

get discrete mathematics and its applications by Rosen and work through as much of it as you can. Do a lot of proofs and don't skip the graph theory.

At the same time, buy babby's first python textbook of find some shit online and actually learn the rudiments of programming

Then, switch your major to mathematics as soon as you get to school.

>> No.7195614

>>7194780
>>7194785
Prepare for disappointment.
College Park fucking sucks, as do all the people who live there.

>> No.7195677

>>7195614
Good math and physics departments, though, iirc.

>> No.7195708

>>7195677
Yeah, STEM is still pure.
The rest of campus is a SJW hellhole.
Luckily they put all the STEM buildings together, and even have places to eat in them, so your contact with the marxist savages will be minimal.

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7195724

>>7194780
>i

You can start by writing like an adult who doesn't drool on themself.

>> No.7195730

>>7194780
>im going to be a computer science major

Terrible decision. Major in CpE, EE or Math instead.

>> No.7195743

>>7194780
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Science_and_Engineering
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Programming_Textbook_Recommendations

Also might be helpful
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Math_Textbook_Recommendations#High_School

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7195761

Get an understanding of discrete math, read some of Concrete Mathematics by Knuth. Learning even a little about graphs, trees, and data structures will help a lot.

SICP is MITs intro text and is also a good read.

>> No.7195764

>>7194780
UMBC or College Park?
If it's UMBC, I'm sorry.

>> No.7196195

>>7195614
this place is fucking awful

>> No.7196639

I'm in the same situation as OP but with Texas A&M instead.

>> No.7196670

>>7195708
>Yeah, STEM is still pure.
>The rest of campus is a SJW hellhole.

Why is every major university turning into this goddamnit

>> No.7196679

>>7195708
Good thing I'm majoring in Physics then.

>> No.7196872

>>7195708
even sjw & Marxists would be nice. 1/4 of the students I TA live up to the "deranged sorority girl" image

>> No.7196964

>>7196670
>>7195708
>>7196679
>>7196872


They keep fucking leaking into our STEM fort though.

There's more fucking hipsters studying art and bullshit that come to eat at our shitty cafeterias than STEM students who actually have class. God knows why they travel half a mile just to sit in our shitty places that are inferior to main campus'.

>> No.7197388

>>7196964

i have to ask tho, which uni?

>> No.7197653

>>7196670
Rutgers hasn't experienced this yet. Most of the hipster tumblrette faggots stay in their own separate campus and everyone else that matters studies in three other campuses

>> No.7197767

Can anyone rate CS at UW-Madison

Does anyone know Stevens in NJ

>> No.7198305

>>7196964
I went to undiegrad in a real city. College park has no hipsters. At least sjws and hipsters can be (pseudo)intellectual, and bring some culture with them. This place is not that. You sound a bit salty, there's nothing wrong with other disciplines, hipsters, etc. but goddam it would be nice if there were fucking anything other than frat parties even just to actually have somewhere to have moderately interesting conversations with people that's not fucking cornerstone.