Study Gale.
A blog with advice and opinions for Dal CS students; efficacy relies on reader.
A blog with advice and opinions for Dal CS students; efficacy relies on reader.
The start of the fall semester always has a unique energy to it. Most students, after promising to stay productive throughout the summer, come to Dal with excitement for what’s to come. “It will be different this time”, they say (at least I do). We enter the new semester with hopes to stay on ...
Let’s begin with defining what mindless learning is. For this blog, I’ll say that it is learning for the sake of completion rather than acquiring a new skill or perspective. The problem with focusing on finishing a task, rather than actually learning from it, is that you are left with nothing ...
What we learn in class is great, foundational knowledge. However, it would take far too long to learn to write programs that do more than just output something into the console if you were to wait until it is taught in a course. Students should take the time to explore and apply what they lear...
The Systems Programming course is often labelled as the hardest course required to be taken in the department. While this course is not easy by any means, it is possible to do well. You should have no trouble passing the course, if you apply yourself and do not have chronic test anxiety. Again...