Alumni Presentations
Notes from Alumni presentations on 8/29/22
How did you know you wanted to do Comp Sci
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Compare and contrast with other positions, talent in CS.
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Problem solving.
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Passion for CS, enjoyed problem solving.
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Not passionate but understood importance, internships involved scripting.
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Importance of user design and CSP for technical background.
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Always interested in CS. APCSA showed how to use through application. COVID-19 Database.
What is the biggest CS challenge
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Keeping motivation in spite of difficulty and errors.
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Egos, focus on your own path and progress, follow your own curves.
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Theory behind CS and complications that you didn’t realize before. Highschool to College transition.
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Motivation in CS, feeling worse. Project in mind helped with keeping focus and learning.
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Starting, temptation to BS, take the easy yet worse route and try to cut corners (above and beyond).
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Structure and order can be very confusing and it’s hard to get started. Don’t be afraid to diverge from the plan.
Are there PBL scenarios in college
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Yes, 2 hands on projects done in college. Very theory based, still does exist though.
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Mix of PBL and exams. Sometimes can be split.
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Teacher can’t focus on individual, group learning.
Have you applied CS in a major not thats not CS
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Conversions can be automated.
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Programs can be used to rework projects, 3d printing?
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Problem solving logic, not just CS but key concepts outside of actual work.
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Math library can do work for you.
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Jupyter notebooks used for technical papers to make them interactive.
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Programming involved in stats.
Have you had a job before implemented with school or your professor
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Apply and create a resume that makes you memorable. Show you’re different.
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Kind’s of jobs or internship: TA’s, bus driver (lol), code ninja’s, cybersecurity, API’s and web development, UI interface
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Northrop Grumman internships (high school programs)
How to find internships
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Show off projects.
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look for work experience.
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Show you know how to do work.
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Finding algorithms (search, sorting, graph theory, “ “ problem)
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Search around september of next year to mid november is when resume needs to be done. (Qualcomm)
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Engineering doesn’t change throughout schools, stand out through projects and experience.
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Small companies can take high school.
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USE YOUR RESOURCES, find people to refer you or get you internships.
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Talk to people that could help you.
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LinkedIns
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Apply for Code ninjas
Use of CS in mechanical engineering
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Mirror components.
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Script that took and isolated extra text in being mirrored.
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Manipulating data.
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Simulations for materials converted from hand to functions then setup for computations.
Clubs or programs
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UAV’s
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Personal use
Why did you want to go into machine learning
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Had to look for a new major
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Technical classes
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Art Ai’s
Clubs at DN related to CS
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Robotics
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SD stem startup’s