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Mathematics & Computing

Fresources , Resource Hub

  • CP (Competitive Programming)
    • An intellectual sport
    • Contestants, known as sport programmers, are challenged to solve algorithmic problems as fast as possible
    • Competing with the world
    • C++ preffered language to get started
    • ANCC Resources
    • Practice makes perfect.
    • Platforms: Codeforces, Codechef, CSES, AtCoder, LeetCode, Hackerrank
    • Compete: ACM-ICPC, Meta Hackercup
    • Really important for placement tests and becoming better at programming in general
  • Software Development
    • Develop any application that excites you and ship it to the end user.
    • Bring your imagination and creativity in “hard” copy ;)
    • Learn new skills and build stuff!
    • Necessary for a lot of coding jobs (more important for offcampus) and something that is NOT taught in college
    • CV Point !
    • App Development/Web Development/ML/Game Development/Blockchain Development ...
    • Web Development
      • Good skill to begin with in software dev
      • Begin with HTML, CSS, JS and then move onto Fullstack or MERN stack dev
      • A lot of projects/freelance work is actively done
      • Frontend, Backend, UI/UX
      • FreeCodeCamp
      • Udemy
    • Game Development
      • Build simple games such as tic-tac-toe or complex ones such as Forza Horizon Series
      • Great option to check out if you have nice creative/art/story-writing skills(not to mention patience 🤕)
      • Generally no-code Resources:
    • ML
      • What? Make computers smart.
      • Let them see - Computer Vision
      • Let them predict & choose - Regression & Classification
      • Let them speak and understand Speech - Natural Language Processing
      • Act like humans: Robotics and Aritficial Intelligence
      • Why?: Self-Driving Cars, Large Language Models, THE FUTURE!!
      • Resources
    • App Development
      • What? Build apps for mobile phones
      • How?
        • Learn Flutter (highly recommended)
        • Kotlin/Java are good options too
      • Resources
        • Flutter CodeLabs and Tutorials
        • Udemy Courses

Operating Systems and Linux

  • Linux is a family of open source operating systems based on the linux kernel
  • Why Linux?
    • It’s Lightweight compared to windows
    • It’s Free!!! And open-source, programmers have changed it to make it highly useful for programming and development
    • A Command Line interface along with GUI
    • You will also need Linux for courses,
    • So better get used to a popular Linux distro like Ubuntu.
  • VirtualBox: You can use Linux in your windows environment with this.
  • It will be useful if you are a beginner to Linux.
  • Dual Boot: This means using 2 operating systems on your machine.
  • While Dual booting is better than virtual-box, you should always keep a backup of your windows files in case anything bad happens
  • You can check this for setup: Tutorial
  • You can check out for tutorials on YouTube
  • WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux): If you only want to use linux on CLI but don’t want to switch from Windows WSL Tutorial
  • You can also use secure shell (ssh) in your command-prompt to connect to your csc account, which is a linux machine, and use it.

Courses

  • Extremely important to refer to courses of study and recommended course structure
  • Do you core courses on time.
  • Look out for prerequisites and overlapping courses
  • Build a tentative degree plan
  • All courses are not offered in all semesters
  • Don’t fail important courses like which are prerequisite for many courses
  • Reach out to your seniors when in doubt

Internships

  • Spend your first year exploring stuff. (Coursera/YouTube/Udemy)
  • Find what you like and get very good at it
  • Build your resume (get overleaf premium using NSUT id).
  • Work on projects
  • Dedicated sessions closer to intern season in the second and third year

Git and GitHub

  • Solution to versioning and collaborative development.
  • Make a github pro account using NSUT id!

StackOverFlow, Google, ChatGPT & Other

LinkedIn

  • Build your profile
  • Network with people
  • Learn about opportunities
  • Learn professional skills
  • LinkedIn

Typing

  • Extremely useful skill
  • Keybr, Monkeytype and other similar sites to learn and practice
  • Compete against others on Typeracer