Alumni Panel Notes
Colin
- UCSD, took csp twice
- How did you realize you wanted to do CS
- Realized he was good at CS. Friends encouraged him, but also choose to appeal to his own skill
- Starting cs was the hardest part; keeping motivated through it
- Mech engineering: only 1 hands on project in freshman year, and one in senior year
- Learn scrum well, as it will come back in college
- Put together your resume early
Anthony
- took csp then csa
- Did CS from a young age
- Liked it as an individual
- Biggest challenge: biggest egos, so focus on yourself
- just apply, and go ahead and do it. you will never regret it
Andrew
- some UC school
- Took CSP, and slowly developed his skills
- More paper stuff in college; more about the theory
- Being prepared for learn, and struggle in the classes you take in college
- What we are learning now is very applicable, and CSA and CSP is what will take you far
- Always work on what you want to do. Find time and do it.
- Data visualization is something to look into
Mabel
- aerospace engineering
- Did not like CS at all, but them grew to like it
- Find motivation to keep going, and not give up
- Got extremely frustrated with the syntax, but the logic is even harder to learn
- There will be more than 200+ people, so it will be a lot of self-learning/studying with peers
- This class is very structured compared to colleges, and how their classes are organized
- CSA and CSP teaches a lot of problem solving, which is applicable in many different majors in college
- Jupyter notebook is a useful tool, as many people in college use that tool for projects
- CS in any college is the same, you learn the same things
Allison
- UCLA, only took csp, cognitive science major
- More focused on psychology
- Csp helped learn web design skills
- Temptation to not put effort into what you are doing, make sure you don’t take the shortcuts
- CS will show up in almost every single field, such as phycology
Nitya
- UCSD, took csa, likes the experience
- Was interested in cs from a young age
- Liked making games when she was younger
- Getting started into a new area of computer science. There won’t be a lot of structure for everything