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Hey, I just graduated from IIIT BBSR, now I'm at IIT BBSR doing research. If you need detailed guidance please PM me direct or I usually attend Quora Meetups ( Reddit BBSR subreddit is dead ) or Dev Meets in BBSR. We could meet in person for a nice chat.

Here's a short outline on what I think you should do:

Individually:

• ACM ICPC is really important. Focus on this. So is Google Code Jam.
• Focus only on C/C++/Java and Python. 4 Years won't still be enough. For making your website/portfolio you could learn HTML/CSS and JS. For some frustration and joy, add a functional language, my top pick goes to Haskell.
• Find a passion. Competitive isn't going to take forward very far as it's basically solving solved questions. It's practice. Passion in a field of CS or maybe something applied.
• Open source contributions and designing habit forming products. Check this book by Nir Eyal which goes by the same name.
• Read Code Complete 2, Pragmatic Programmer, make stackoverflow your Facebook. Don't answer if you can't, but read. Read. And code.
• Apply for Internships! Startups are nicer as the team is small so you'll learn a lot of new things.

Group/Social stuff:

• ACM ICPC is a group event. Finding 2 friends in your college won't be difficult, I guess, who share the same passion.
• Teachers aren't just bad in your college, they are present at every college. Ignore them and let's rather be graceful than sulk with remorse.
• You have the whole city to explore. Go grab an Ola/Uber and visit institutes or email Profs you want to work with. BBSR has really nice people provided you search right.

Above all, don't do something because it's the trend. Do if it's fun. Sorry for the brevity and not much of an expert advice on the job/software product market as my career is mostly research and a bit of entrepreneurship.

For the very best of times,

Ankit

This r/ needs rules. It needs flairs for seaperating types of posts and subjects. there can be another mega thread for discussion on entrance exams/admissions etc. Also suggest weekly or monthly mega thread (maybe for different disciplines?

Also is there a way to connect this r/ to academia.edu?

I've never used the following websites, but these may be very useful for students needing research papers/thesis etc

Sci-Hub : website to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers

Unpaywall : access to the research literature

Perhaps. The thing is that I want it to be highly specific in the direction it takes. Some platforms like brilliant.org are interesting, but they have a very unstructured approach. I want this to be something where the Indian parent can trust their children to, eyes closed, without thinking, 'yeh toh theek hai, par skool ke padhai ka kya hoga?'. This needs to be unabashedly Indian and for Indian students.

Another thing is that the students , except for the prodigies, seem to be getting 'hooked' to learning for learning's sake far later than is ideal. I want them to have and retain that attitude from day zero, which means that the system needs to be able to nurture from the stage of day zero -- without clashing in the future with school's stuff.

As for unacademy, I fear this would be buried under the massive number of IAS and similar courses; the content of CDALI would be far too vast to not have its own platform.

If there's no option to get an engineering degree at all, I'd suggest choose anyone but don't rely on it for jobs, the degree is practically useless. Start self studying from the first year itself. Don't learn aimlessly. Otherwise you'll be trapped in tutorial hell. I'd suggest the odin project . I am currently studying from it. I just wish I discovered it sooner.

I'm going to vit vellore for cse core too, and i got the ideapad gaming 3 with the gtx 1650 and 5600h for around 55k since i was on a tight budget, but I'd generally suggest you to get atleast a six core processor and an rtx 3050 if you're planning on doing a bit of gaming and video/photo editing, just bring your budget to around 75k for eg:this asus laptop for 76k

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https://www.forestapp.cc/ use this focus app with better background noises, used it at the time of boards, I may be younger but have the same problem never studied till exams came and then cried before exam that I wasted time while wasting time not studying

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1. Try building a radio transmitter which can be heard on an app on your phone! Even blatantly copying some website will give you a lot of hands on experience and then you get to learn about design choices too. (How transmitters operate, AM/FM and how RLC circuits work together)
2. Once 1 is done, move over to increasing its range by building a better antenna. (Poles, dipoles, yagi etc etc)
3. Extremely ambitious: Try interfacing your transmitter with your laptop so that you can hear stuff on the phone, learn from https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.html

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It does not really matter these days if you are from a tier 1/2/3 college as far as technicalities are concerned. Knowledge and guidance is pretty accessible these days, one just needs the desire to move(crawl?) forward.

I strongly recommend you to check out the US LSAT preptests for english and logical. I had very high accuracy and finished the English and Logical reading sections really quickly.

One of the books I used

It's pricey and adds up but worth it. Make sure it's the US LSAT and not the Indian LSAT. Indian LSAT is a cakewalk. US LSAT is fairly difficult.

>also any good mock tests/series you suggest to give?

You could check out Career Launcher and Legal Edge. Though career launcher is a little too easy but follows the CLAT pattern.

One thing I know for sure is the final exam is most of the time unpredictable in some section or the other. Or something's might be different from what you thought. So try practicing as many different mocks as possible.

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There are very few certificates tat guarantee you job. I would say try web dev, it's a good start. Try https://www.freecodecamp.org/ It's free. Then fetch an internship from local firms and get absorbed. Don't run after fancy tech. Focus on fundamentals.

There is no single way to learn. There are many. Most of them are haphazard. If you take a sequential approach you may get bored. There are bottom up ways like, theory to practical. There are top down ways like, application to theory. It depends on what kind of learner you are. You can invent your own way as you go along. For a structured approach maybe start with this book.

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras and Tensor Flow: Concepts, Tools and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

https://www.amazon.in/dp/9352139054/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_fabc_2CHF63H0VT088ZGZ9F8P

man , you are brilliant. I went through your entire post history and you come across as an amazing person. I want to do GATE [was actually preparing for it but did not do anything in the previous month as lost entire dedication]. Algorithms and data structures has always been my pet peeve but tbh I feel I don't have it in me what it takes to be good at it.

I am on various facebook groups and see people looking for jobs , good in a lot of skills like algo and ds , have knowledge of a lot of programming skills , android developers with 1+ years of experience , have a lot of certifications and still finding it hard to get a job that pays 2-3 lpa. On the other hand there are guys who were good at say , just algo and ds and were in better colleges and earn upwards of 10 lpa. I being from a shitty college myself , would get scared and demotivated on reading this and would wonder if it is worth it.

There is this question that I am thinking about from a past few days -

How smart are smart people actually ?

By smart people I mean those from top colleges placed in the top companies , with amazing problem solving skills etc. . I feel they are naturally talented and no matter what I do , I can never compete with them and there is no reason even in trying, i am never getting out of the shit hole that I am in and I am doomed to sat this way.

Yet I see a lot of my colleagues , just attend classes , never read a standard book , make there way into an iit or nit and get a job that pays atleast 8 lpa.

And then there are some questions , that I would think about for days and still unable to solve them , making me feel like a complete loser . Like this one -https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/maximum-profit-by-buying-and-selling-a-share-at-most-k-times/

or this one

https://leetcode.com/problems/gas-station/description/

I am sorry for this incoherent post , I don't even knowwhat I want.

I have placed an order for this book, haven't recieved yet. I missed the nimcet forms.

I am fucking terrified man. Every new thing i try to learn, i forget and every job or internship i'm trying to apply to has anywhere between 100 to 1000+ applicants.

op couldn't be more accurate.

something i wished i had realised before CET is that most of physics and chemistry questions were just theoretical. expect a few numericals but focus more on theory.

also, i solved this book in the last few days before CET. they've systematically categorised questions since 2004, chapter wise. and alot of the same questions were asked. and since i had solved them recently, i didn't even need to actually solve it during the exam.

good luck!

Currently preparing for law entrance exams myself. Any legal aptitude book designed for clat/ailet would be a suitable entry point, I personally preferAP Bhardawaj DM if you want the pdf.

Can you guys review this book? https://www.amazon.in/C-Complete-Reference-Herbert-Schildt/dp/007053246X/ref=pd_vtp_h_5/262-4991602-5981736?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=007053246X&pd_rd_r=9442a853-9846-4055-af2c-ef2a16401498&pd_rd_w=sluVF&pd_rd_wg=LCfsd&pf_rd_p=7c3...

It will do the job but i would rather get this . its cheaper and the brand is very well known and the best in what its doing. Used in various professional spaces too