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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2012, 01:04:45 am »
yo guys the hardest course in the first year will be maths for engieenering anyone know whats its about?

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2012, 01:14:34 am »
yo guys the hardest course in the first year will be maths for engieenering anyone know whats its about?

I guess it depends what sort of engineering you are going, but engineering math tends to be pretty hardcore indeed.

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2012, 01:16:15 am »
the carrer is named computer science and its strongly oriented to game development

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2012, 01:19:27 am »
I have no way of knowing what sort of math that perticelar course got. Its different from class to class and also from country to country. I do Information Security first year now, its not really considered an engineering course tho. The math first semester was defiantly the hardest class, at least for me.

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2012, 01:23:49 am »
I would love to live in norway and work there as a software engieener or game developer my university haz only convalidation with sweden tho but I will do what I can to go to norway ;) I heard that its expensive tho :(

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2012, 01:27:48 am »
I would love to live in norway and work there as a software engieener or game developer my university haz only convalidation with sweden tho but I will do what I can to go to norway ;) I heard that its expensive tho :(

May be expensive. But you can apply for scholarship. Which you most likely will get if you start on a good school, its about 1.000$ a month ;)

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2012, 05:01:53 am »
yo guys how do you do for remembering formulas? :( there are things of maths like for the area of a polyhedron for example I dont think that I will remember it :P so what do you do guys?
well Ive found this page [size=78%]http://www.ehow.com/how_2141468_memorize-formulas.html[/size]
looks good I guess I think that practicing is a solid way to learning a formula but how many problems do I have to make tell me your experiences guys
« Last Edit: February 01, 2012, 06:10:01 am by gh0st »

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #22 on: February 01, 2012, 07:22:46 am »
I use a cue card system for everything I have to learn.
But you can learn formulas too by actually using them to solve problems.
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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #23 on: February 04, 2012, 05:20:54 am »
I was looking the admision test of the best university on engieenering of my coutry and I could solve any problem :/ I just wonder how is the admision test of the best university in the world (Harvard and MIT) now I know why there born the most succesful people in the world for example the creator of facebook

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #24 on: March 10, 2012, 09:15:20 am »
how many exercises do you guys do per day? or do you stop practising some days in the week?

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #25 on: March 10, 2012, 10:12:03 am »
I think of a project and do it - that is my exercise.

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #26 on: March 10, 2012, 11:02:41 am »
You just have to practice hard and smart.
Go from low level to high. Make shedules, revise those things time to time, don't solve million books.. It doesn't matter how many questions you solved. Just cramming formulas won't work. You need to learn how and where you can use them. Try simple but conceptual books.
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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #27 on: March 10, 2012, 12:35:36 pm »
Hard work and reading in your field of study, knowledge is always expanding so you need to keep track of anything new. Good luck

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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #28 on: March 10, 2012, 06:58:22 pm »
There was a similar discussion on another forum about how to prepare for exercises, how to learn efficiently. This was my answer to that (I got my BSc in computer science last year and that is the strategy that turned out to be successful for me):

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It highly depends on your learning type what is effective for you. I am the type that starts very early to learn and is not willing to do too much in one day. (Others rather learn in large chunks.) So I make a strict plan, count every site that has to be learned, divide it by the days I have left minus one day for repeating everything. So I get maybe three or five sites I have to learn every day and that works good, because I know it won't take more than 30 - 45 minutes.
 
 The one-day-routine works like this:
 
  • reading through the new stuff (just reading to get a plan, not more)
  • start learning by repeating, marking important text, drawing little pictures (for stuff that is hard to memorize I even drew whole comics - however that works fine, if you are the visual type and like to draw), saying everything loud, looking up everything I don't understand. I repeat until I think I got it into my head.
  • I quickly retell the old stuff I learned the day before and check this way whether I have it still in memory. If I don't I learn it again.
  • I retell the new stuff.
The very last day I don't learn anything new. I repeat everything.
 That's all I do before the exams.
 Usually I also declare a day in the week where I do nothing. My private free day.
 
 At my university it works like this: You have no exams during the semester, but you get some homeworks. You have two or three weeks full of exams in the end of the semester.
 
 My approach during the semester is this: I don't copy the homework. I do it on my own, so I am forced to learn continually. I don't like to learn something by rote, I rather like to understand than just repeating definitions. But there are always some courses that want you to learn definitions. Because I know this weakness of mine, I write every definition on one side of a file card and the name of what is defined on the other side. Every evening I use ten minutes to go through the cards. When I have learned a card, I put it in another tab which I will repeat only once a week. If I have forgotten a definition of the once a week tab I put the file card back to the once a day tab. If I know that card after a week, I get rid of it. That really helps me to reduce the learning time right before the exam period.
 
 We also set up a learning group (3 - 5 people). We only met right before each exam, made ourself a pizza, went through everything that we didn't fully understand. Someone has always an answer or at least a hint and you will be surprised that the others will have questions that are challenging and that never came up to yourself. It is not a group that learns together, it is more a group to ask questions and afterwards relax a bit right before the exam. Get enough sleep.
 
 If you ever have the opportunity to learn something practically, do it (unless you are a pure theotician, but most people are not). That will stay much longer in your mind than the rest. I. e. for me it was good to actually program all the algorithms we had to understand and not only using them on the paper.
 
 Another quite good hint is to learn in different environments. Not only at home. Go out to a park or go into the library to learn. This way the brain won't connect the learned stuff with your desk at home. It will be easier to access the learning matter in other situations (like the exam).
 
 Try to learn in different ways. I already told a bunch of them, like drawing. You could also sing. But different means from different sources too. Read a book about your topic, look it up on the internet, talk to people about it, widen your mind. I also don't like to learn just from books or presentation sheets. If I haven't already, I write it down by hand - but only the shortest version of the important stuff.
 
 My last advise: If you have been on the computer or in the books all day or if you get a headache, go out, do a walk or some sports. Everyone needs some kind of compensation.
« Last Edit: March 10, 2012, 06:59:06 pm by Deque »
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Re: how to become a good student?
« Reply #29 on: March 11, 2012, 03:00:19 am »
Don't mean to hijack this conversation but i have a little question of my own....


Am I the only one on this whole forum who isn't in school?.....Perhaps this deserves a new thread but I wanna know how many people here know what they know just by their own personal research and practice. And more importantly do I have to be ten years old to learn anything about programming and computer science? Am I screwed if I don't go to college?


Sorry maybe I should post this newb ass question elsewhere
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