For those of us who didn't grow up coding at age 7, this is golden!!!! The amount of terrible CS teachers out there would amaze you!! I mean "blow your mind away" amaze you. I almost gave up CS because of my absolutely terrible professors. I couldn't even understand simple Classes and object!!! It was that bad!!!
Luckily, since I really wanted to learn, I had to seek alternate resources. I was fortunate to stumble on Stanford's Cs106a taught by Mehran Sahami and it changed my life forever. That man is the gold standard for what a teacher should be. He broke down complex ideas and made them look so simple.
Since then, I use a combination of different resources to learn said "difficult concepts". Recursion, got it...pointers, got it too. I have used Standford courses, Berkeley course, udemy, Udacity, Coursera and even youtube to learn. These sites have some really good teachers.
I have since come to understand that CS is really not that difficult. All is takes is a willingness to learn and a good resource to learn from.
Hi, I completely agree you. I am currently learning how to code. I am at that point where I know the syntax of of a few language pretty well and can code up small programs.
However, I do have difficulties in architecting and developing a fully functional application.
Hi Jeremy, i have an computer running ubuntu 17.10 with 16gb ram and 4gb nvidia gpu. Is it possible to setup my system to run the exercises locally without having to use paperspace?
Thank you.