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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: AdmiralViscen on April 17, 2008, 12:30:16 PM

Title: So I guess I'm gonna go to graduate school.
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 17, 2008, 12:30:16 PM: I got accepted into this Forensic Computing program that only takes in 15-20 people once a year, and I think I'm gonna do it.

They accepted me because I took a handful of CompSci courses when I was a freshman in college, and then I took other stuff like Calculus and Statistics to meet their minimum requirements for acceptance. I need to take two more courses this summer in order to register for the fall. I think I'm way behind the curve for that :lol

The courses I took at this school were pure shit and were the reason I changed my major, so not only is the knowledge 3 years old but it was never very good anyway.

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At a minimum, applicants for the Master of Science in Forensic Computing should have successfully completed the equivalent of the following undergraduate coursework or have comparable experience: two semesters in object oriented programming; one semester in data structures (stacks, queues, linked lists and trees); one semester in algorithms (searching and sorting); one semester in operating systems fundamentals; two semesters of calculus; and one semester in calculus-based statistics and probability.

I haven't done the three bolded courses. Their acceptance material is telling me to take Operating Systems and Algorithms. edit: Well, I took 'intro to data structures,' but I don't remember jack shit about stacks and queues. I remember more of that from VB class in high school than I do from freshman year of college.

Can anyone recommend me some textbooks that I can use to bring myself up to speed?
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Post by: Mupepe on April 17, 2008, 12:38:00 PM: support me
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 17, 2008, 01:14:12 PM: ???
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Post by: Tauntaun on April 17, 2008, 01:14:47 PM: Quote from: AdmiralViscen on April 17, 2008, 01:14:12 PM
???

He wants you to be his sugar daddy. Mups good sexin. :-*
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Post by: tiesto on April 17, 2008, 04:46:25 PM: Where are you going? Stony?
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Post by: max_cool on April 17, 2008, 05:39:06 PM: Congratulations - I guess
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 17, 2008, 05:48:20 PM: John Jay.

Can any CompSci people suggest some texts?
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Post by: Ecrofirt on April 17, 2008, 06:57:37 PM: Who needs texts? Here's all you need to know.

A stack is a thing that you put things into. When you want to take one of the things out of the thing, you do it in the reverse order from which you put each of the things into the thing. That is, the thing has a last-in, first-out (LIFO) relationship with its things.

A queue is a thing that you put things into. When you want to take one of the things out of the thing, you do it in the same order that you put each of the things into the thing. That is, the thing has a first-in, first-out (FIFO) relationship with its things.

Easy peasy Japanesey.
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Post by: xnikki118x on April 18, 2008, 02:11:19 AM: No suggestions from me, but congratulations!
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 18, 2008, 10:28:31 AM: I haven't touched programming at all in at least 3 years tho, I've got to see if the one textbook has all I need. I don't wanna get caught with my pants down in these summer courses.

thx pplz :)
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Post by: Rman on April 18, 2008, 10:47:17 AM: You live in the city, AV? I think you mentioned Queens once.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 18, 2008, 10:55:42 AM: Well I'm dorming in Queens until May 16th.
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Post by: Rman on April 18, 2008, 10:56:14 AM: St. John's?
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 18, 2008, 10:58:56 AM: Yup :)

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Post by: Rman on April 18, 2008, 11:05:12 AM: St. John's is a decent school from what I've heard. The basketball team has suck now, though. No offense.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 18, 2008, 11:06:34 AM: Sure does!

STJ has a good reputation but it's shit to the core. 3 more weeks.
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Post by: Rman on April 18, 2008, 11:14:35 AM: Wow, that sucks. It's a pretty pricey school too.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 18, 2008, 11:16:56 AM: It's insanely pricey, but I come here for free.

The administrators are assholes, the employees hate the undergrads and treat us like shit, the bureaucracy runs deep and is totally busted, the professors are often garbage, and they have to be because the students are so indifferent and clueless.
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Post by: Tauntaun on April 19, 2008, 03:16:00 AM: Quote from: AdmiralViscen on April 18, 2008, 11:16:56 AM
It's insanely pricey, but I come here for free.

The administrators are assholes, the employees hate the undergrads and treat us like shit, the bureaucracy runs deep and is totally busted, the professors are often garbage, and they have to be because the students are so indifferent and clueless.

You should turn them upside and shove a fork up their ass.
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Post by: tiesto on April 19, 2008, 01:44:05 PM: Quote from: Rman on April 18, 2008, 11:05:12 AM
St. John's is a decent school from what I've heard. The basketball team has suck now, though. No offense.

One of my friends has a father who teachers psych at St Johns.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 19, 2008, 01:46:23 PM: Quote from: tiesto on April 19, 2008, 01:44:05 PM
Quote from: Rman on April 18, 2008, 11:05:12 AM
St. John's is a decent school from what I've heard. The basketball team has suck now, though. No offense.

One of my friends has a father who teachers psych at St Johns.

What's his name?
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Post by: tiesto on April 20, 2008, 12:44:20 PM: Quote from: AdmiralViscen on April 19, 2008, 01:46:23 PM
Quote from: tiesto on April 19, 2008, 01:44:05 PM
Quote from: Rman on April 18, 2008, 11:05:12 AM
St. John's is a decent school from what I've heard. The basketball team has suck now, though. No offense.

One of my friends has a father who teachers psych at St Johns.

What's his name?

Frank Patalano
Title: Re: So I guess I'm gonna go to graduate school.
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 22, 2008, 01:35:46 PM: Hm

I went to register today, and John Jay doesn't offer those prereq undergrad classes in summer session. And only one of them is offered in the Fall session. And Saint John's, NYIT, Stonybrook don't offer them in summer either.

I shot off an email to one of the dudes there, hopefully he can make this work for me.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 22, 2008, 05:32:53 PM: Already sorted out :D

This school already takes a shit on my current one.
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Post by: Beezy on April 23, 2008, 12:26:04 AM: What school? John Jay? St. Johns was full of lames.
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 23, 2008, 12:27:10 AM: Out of Saint John's, into John Jay.