Alright so first off, in all my experience and people I've talked to, honors classes aren't 'harder'. I would say they're just 'better'. The differences are usually -
Smaller class size
'better' professor (almost always has a better ratings online and I'm guessing in their internal system)
Extra project/lab (I've done a few honors math classes including honors calc 2 and 3. Each of them had basically the same course load but had 3 or 4 'projects' tacked on. Either just extra problems to work out in full or some easy stuff in Matlab. it was a grade booster both times for me. Same idea extended into other honors classes too)
Also, although it doesn't mean much, everyone will be in the honors college there. Not a bad thing. I would always recommend taking the honors one if you can
If you have any interest in graduating in the honors college, you also should take the honors section, since only the starter classes offer an honors section.
For looking up professors, either ask people you know, or check rate my professor and read through the reviews, noting class they took and all that. Both seem good for math profs -
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1797323
https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=175828
Hope that helps. If you have any questions hmu here or send a pm
I don't know about the ISP blocking bittorrent traffic but one thing that would fix your problem would be using a proxy or VPN. I use PIA(Private Internet Access) it's $40 for a year but works really well, keeps me anonymous and my ISP can't see what I'm looking at or downloading. If you don't want to pay there are free proxies but they can limit your download speed by a good but because so many people are using them.
Ah gotcha. I'd say it really depends on the instructor. Some professors are extremely energetic and passionate about what they teach and it is phenomenal. Others don't care as much and it turns out to be fairly lackluster. But even the professors who don't care about 100 level courses still teach the material well and do a god job. Check out Rate My Professor for the best professors in each course.
Introduction to Algorithms - 3rd Edition is your god now.
Buy the book, it's one of the only ones I've actually used enough to justify the (really hefty) price. It has all the answers in it, and is fairly close to what Lusth teaches.
ECE380 isn't that bad, and the book isn't that handy. Do the labs, study the slides, and get Jakob Cakareski^sp? and you'll be fine. If you struggle with the labs, google the problems. If you still can't get the answer, ask the TA or get a better lab partner. The tests are mostly straight memorization, but they're really not that hard.
CS201 is what will make you cry at night. I hope you enjoy trees.
It has an Alexa ranking of 122. Livejournal has more traffic than reddit. I'm not saying that reddit is obscure (it has a share button on many popular websites), but the reddit community is somewhat of a counterculture and the vast majority of regular internet users have never used reddit, or used reddit more than once.
You could also try out CodeAcademy. It's a great way to learn programming in a very interactive environment. I used it to learn plenty of jQuery/JavaScript for work and found it plenty helpful.
I would offer to help out myself, but I've never learned Python (I got here well before the switch). Learned lots of other languages though.
edit- heck I might teach myself python one day if I get bored enough
Yeah luckily I got an outside scholarship that actually pays for my laptop up to $1500. I’ve been looking at some dell xps and thought this seemed like a good value but I’m not 100% sure https://www.amazon.com/Dell-XPS-7390-InfinityEdge-Thunderbolt/dp/B091Y45KLF/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=dell%2Bxps&qid=1621274157&sr=8-3&th=1&psc=1
I was mostly joking but most would have one they use for class. If you have time time just buy one on amazon, lol.
You can even buy kits and stuff with it and you'll get one far faster than you would trying to hustle some poor college student
I would recommend doing small projects to learn along the way. The best place to do this is to do the easy and medium problems on https://leetcode.com/ . It'll teach you just about every important aspect of programming, that being data structures, critical thinking, and possibly some understanding of runtime. Leetcode is also good practice for later on when you do white board job interviews if you decide to get a career in the field. The more of these problems you do the easier they'll get and you'll be able to move to more challenging ones.
Since you're just starting out, I'd honestly recommend Python3. I think its by far the most beginner friendly language. Not a lot of overhead to get something simple running and relatively simple syntax. However, you unfortunately won't gain understanding of more low-level memory management and some other intuition of what's happening at the Hardware/CPU level unless you learn C/C++ probably. I would still recommend starting out with Python3 and learning OOPs and Data Structures through it first, then move to something like C afterwards once you've built your intuition for the syntax and how programs run.
If you'd like help, I'm a grad student in CS and would be willing to meet with you and help tutor you on Python and some other topics. It'd prolly have to be on Fridays or Weekends though like what @BamBamMakerMan says, the first language is really the toughest to learn and most of the concepts transfer to any other language. Other's have given good advice in this thread as well.
Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabama by E. Culpepper Clark is a very detailed book about that era of UA's history.
I am unaware of a book that goes from 1831 all the way through the Witt era, especially since at a level of detail one may want. There is also a discussion of what is written vs. what actually happened, which can be an issue with some of UA's history.
There is a documentary about the Strip which you might find interesting if you haven't seen it already. https://www.amazon.com/Strip-Tuscaloosas-Most-Colorful-Quarter/dp/B086Q5S5BD
I do believe this is what you're referring to. But it should be noted that she is not exactly known a s 100% reliable narrator.
These are the best.. They're effective at the range and when sleeping or trying to take exams, 33db of sound reduction.
I was last in that dorm 4 years ago, but they open about 6 inches max unless they changed that since then.
The little pieces of metal that keep it from opening any higher are easily removed if you have security torx bits.