/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11589109]

made you cry

[Anonymous No.11589129]

>>11589109
>java
why do universities do this

[Anonymous No.11589171]

>>11589129
Java is perfect for learning programming. Not too advanced like C++ or even C, you don't have to worry about all that crap when compiling, but also not too simple like python or JavaScript who lack type safety. Not to mention it's been one of the most used languages for the past 20 years or so and every library in existence is written in Java, then maybe some other languages.

[Anonymous No.11589182]

>>11589171
C# is even more beginner friendly these days and has more industry use, but alas Java will remain in use for no reason. Also >>11589109 this retard is a brainlet if he found data structures difficult.

[Anonymous͘ No.11589193]

>>11589129
>can't into basic programming
These are the people you will eventually train to replace you.

[Anonymous No.11589211]

>>11589182
Java classes are meant to teach you how to think through things logically, debug, plan programs, etc. It's not meant to get into memory management and other shit. That will come down the line if they are in a CS major

[Anonymous͘ No.11589212]

>>11589182
What are data structures ?

[Anonymous No.11589220]

>>11589182
>and has more industry use, but alas Java will remain in use for no reason
It's not for no reason. Java has been on the first spot of most used languages for the past 20 years only occasionally getting surpassed by C.

[Anonymous No.11589229]

>>11589220
I have never once seen Java used in my life. I work with cybersecurity (i.e. glorified sysadmin), used to intern for full stack web development, and contributed to a wide variety of open source video games. It's an almost entirely Pajeet language.

>>11589211
C# is like Java, dum dum. It a GC language.

>>11589212
Data structures and algorithms likely refers to all the binary trees and heaps (black white trees, B+ trees), dijakstra's algorithm, that kind of shit.

[Anonymous No.11589239]

>>11589229
>I have never once seen Java used in my life
I take it you've never once had to make an Android app?

[Anonymous No.11589249]

>>11589239
I suppose not.

[Anonymous͘ No.11589252]

>>11589229
I took a class named data structures this semester, it was some stupid logic shit, the most basic basics of set theory, proof by induction (which i already studied in high school), was piss easy
I will be taking graph theory next semester, hope it's not hard ?

[Anonymous No.11589254]

>>11589229
Java is far more widely used than C# and has been at the top or near the top for nearly 3 decades

[Anonymous No.11589256]

>>11589252
What you took sounds like discrete mathematics.

[Anonymous͘ No.11589261]

>>11589256
My University called it discrete structures, anyhow, how would you say Discrete structures compares in difficulty to lest's say calculus ?

[Anonymous No.11589262]

>>11589261
First year discrete is typically ultra easy.

[Anonymous͘ No.11589285]

>>11589262
The thing with western universities is that it's hard to know if you understood the course because the problems are super easy and require no critical thinking at least that's the case in my first semester

[Anonymous No.11589297]

>>11589285
For shitty unis, yes. Most lower level unis in the US are essentially businesses designed to give you a degree and 50k of debt.

[Anonymous No.11589310]

>>11589109
That book isn't even hard lmao
We used first Sedgwick and then CLRS for our alg classes and it was mostly ok, aside from a few brainlets who kept complaining that they were "not good at math"

[Anonymous͘ No.11589313]

>>11589297
I don't know about other courses but for physics but we're using masterphysics which has some pretty hard exercices sometimes
>>11589297
Post what you consider a mildly difficult calculus problem ?

[Anonymous No.11589329]

>>11589285
My java class did this.

First class was basic data structures, if statements, while loops, etc.

The second semester of the second part of the course introduced new concepts with a project due every week, making presentations on the topics we covered, responding to others projects, etc. It is a giant pain in the ass.

It also isn't helped because the professor's code is constantly buggy so the things she wants us to do/respond to aren't actually doable until 1 or 2 days before the deadline, meaning I was always scrambling

[Anonymous No.11589362]

>>11589313
I dunno, I haven't taken calculus in like 7 years. Maybe the one classic dam problem with the water pressure where you have to take the integral to determine whether the dam will break.

[Anonymous͘ No.11589370]

>>11589362
Isn't that like ap calculus level stuff ?

[Anonymous No.11589858]

second place is advanced organic chemistry

[El Arcón No.11589866]

[Anonymous No.11589904]

>>11589866
How is God spending the quarantine?

[Anonymous No.11589911]

>>11589109
>Java
Brainlet.
>Finding Data Structures and Algorithms hard
Double brainlet.

[Anonymous No.11589922]

>>11589109
>Java
>Poojeet

Checks out

[Anonymous No.11589935]

>>11589109
did she actually read it?

[El Arcón No.11589942]

>>11589904
Surrounded by gangstalkers making my life far more horrible than it would be if I was just regular indigent instead of special-government-indigent.

[Anonymous No.11589974]

>>11589171
that would be kotlin now, grandpa

almost immediately transferrable to python but still have to learn static typing.

no overly verbose bullshit

[Anonymous No.11590263]

>>11589935
certainly not