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University of Victoria is proud to announce the roll-out of new UVic Mobile app available through Apple App store and Google Play that provides students and community members with an efficient and personalized online experience.

New UVic mobile app integrates with Banner student information system and provides students the ability to check their class schedule, grades, notifications, financial summary and access to view and add funds to UVic ONECard.

Check it out!

Apple App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/uvic-mobile/id637084391?mt=8

Google App store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.uvic.mobileapp&hl=en

> Try to avoid blue light (computer screens, cell phones, etc.) for a half hour or more before bedtime. Blue light tricks your brain into thinking it's daytime when it's really time to sleep.

On this note, install f.lux: https://justgetflux.com/ It makes night time computer use a lot easier on the eyes.

Libgen.is can work for some textbooks to find free PDFs. Other than that, I would recommend to wait until after the first week of classes to buy your textbooks, because then you'll be able to determine which classes need textbooks and which ones you can do without.

As for 2nd hand textbooks, you can find a lot of them at SubText in the SUB on campus where they sell used books for a fraction of the price and most of the money goes to the person who is selling the textbooks, not to the store. There's also a Facebook Page called "UVic Textbook Exchange"

ENGINEERING STUDENTS' SOCIETY TO THE RESCUE. The most recent one I have is from 2001 though. Course might have changed drastically since then. I'll throw up the links in a bit.

Here're the ones us engineers have online. There might be one or two in the office that haven't been uploaded, but I'm on the other side of town right now. Hope this helps:

http://depositfiles.com/folders/KWYN3PG50

This is definitely a hard transition. I feel like I am missing out on a lot of the social aspects that I have come to depend on during my degree.

I have however done my best to adapt to the situation. Some things I found useful was to create an environment in my home that is comfortable and relaxing. One of the little things that have really helped me was to get a writing pedestal [Example], This stops me from hunching over my desk while I am furiously trying to write notes. Being forced to sit in a chair for hours at a time with no real opportunity to move around is bad enough as it is, sitting like a shrimp just makes it worse.

Another thing that may come off as weird was to make sure I am still putting in the effort to dress as if I was going out into public and focusing on self-care. I found that going for a walk around the block and treating that as my commute to school helps put me in a different mindset where I am ready to learn or at least clear the cobwebs from my brain.

It's really easy to let ourselves slip and just turn into a blob that sucks in screen content. Make sure to reach out to friends, family, and loved ones. Facebook groups, Discord servers, and Slack channels are a great way to talk to your peers throughout the day. It can help break up the monotony associated with moving from one class to the next.

These are really messed up times, but as a group, we can make it through.

As someone who is also in both 110 and 106 and as someone who very much enjoys coding, I do agree with you. Both classes are boring as hell and it's all just memorization at this point in time.

I don't think that it's any coincidence that LillAnne and the 106 instructor, Isabelle Dufour are rated poorly in terms of their teaching quality. If you want to quit because of the professors, then you have perfect reason to do so because neither of them will get you interested in the program. However, if you want to quit because you're afraid that you don't like CSc (but want to have a passion for it), I think that judging the remainder of the program based on two poor instructors in a first year program where they don't give much of a shit is a poor decision.

To make an analogy to making music, let's say that you have prior experience in writing your own music or playing an instrument. Then, when you get to university, the instructors have to assume that some people in their first year may have never even attempted to play an instrument. As a result, their explanations and courses are so base level and cookie-cutter that it becomes uninteresting. Would you lose your love for making music then? In the same way, these comp sci courses are unfortunately required of all of us, regardless to prior experience. I personally know that there's more to comp sci than "write a for loop for this week's assignment," and that's why I'm choosing to stick with it.

TL;DR - The instructors are awful for CSC 110 and 106 but I believe that they shouldn't be the deciding factor in leaving CSc if you truly are interested in learning more.

If this is a program requirement, make sure you do the math and see if it's even possible to raise your GPA to 6 with 3 classes. Depending on how many classes you've taken before it may actually be mathematically impossible. For example if you've taken 13 classes already you won't get to a 6 even if you get 3 9s

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/dajqamuonv

You can use this calculator to check if you want, where a is the average gpa you expect to get, and b is the number of classes you plan to take in the fall. If you've taken less classes than the x value of the red line, it's possible, otherwise it's not.

Doesn't UVIC still have tutorial services?

Have you tried using the videos at http://www.khanacademy.org/ to help you out? Sometimes seeing/hearing/reading something in a different way (and repeatedly, at your own pace, etc) can help a lot. The same goes for checking out various texts etc.

I'd also recommend seeing if you can find workbooks/exercise books on the topics (easier than you need and building up) with lots of practice exercises. Do them until you 'get it' starting with the parts you already know how to do; by building a stronger foundation and ensuring you fully understand that, it'll be easier to build on top of that.

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Looks like you're storing the courses with cookies? My suggestion would be to create user authentication so you can log in and view them on multiple computers. I would suggest using a cloud provider to host the service at that point. Here's what you can do for free with the major ones.

For frontend, Bootstrap is a lifesaver. I hate CSS so much but you can make prettier websites than most with a couple days of Bootstrap.

See how it does after you make it a bit friendlier looking and add just a bit more functionality. Seems pretty useful though and is definitely going to look good on a co-op resume.

Remember not to focus too much on adding features. Bugs aren't fun to fix, and generally the polishing part of programming kinda sucks, but it's the only way to make excellent products. You're doing the right thing by getting it out there fast and testing the waters though!

Dude, I'm gonna save you some money here. Go to Abe books and get an international edition (international editionn is the exact same except the cover art is different and its softcover so who cares. I even saved you time and linked it for you here I use this site for all my texbooks and find them usually half price.

Start a Minecraft Realm, or get a friend to start one. All of of the hosting is done my Mojang, it has had very little lag from my experience with it and the best part is you don't have to worry about your client and the server going out of sync. Realms was launched in Canada a month or so back and has been great since.

Price wise it's $13/month if you go by the month, or $10/month if you go for 6 months at a time (I think). It needs to be tied down to one account so you can't have each account using it pitch in X amount, but you can always have friends give you money in person to cover the small cost it is.

Get registered with Cal

Try to get into a routine of studying as best as you can For me I go to work early before my classes start and I study until my shift and at home I try to study/work for 2 hours a day

If you find you aren't focusing at home try at another place

Forest is a study timer app that I love!! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.forestapp Also throwing your phone across the room helps

Noise cancelling headphones (they cut out consistent background noise and quiet voices)

My brain works really well with a reward system set a goal that's very achievable like 30 minutes or more and then reward your self with a 5-10 min break and repeat, once you get the amount of hours you're happy with get a better reward for me it's playing the sims

If you do a lot of readings get a text to voice software they have been a life saver for me!

I enjoy all those things. I'm actually moving there on Tuesday, however, I won't have a drum set. Let me know if you are interested.

I do a one man band thing in my home town where I play the drums and guitar, and sometimes the keyboard or harmonica. I mostly play with punk and hardcore bands, even though my sound might not fit in as well.

http://keltondoraty.bandcamp.com/album/novelties-yellodies-demo

*other songs I've written, where I don't play all instruments at once - http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/449595

I had this issue and a wifi adapter fixed it. Got one for 25$ on amazon. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07P6N2TZH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

If its only happening for campus wifi, I would contact UVic helpdesk as previously suggested first

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Check out https://libgen.is/. It's a database with a bunch of textbook pdfs that you can download for free. I'm a first year in biology and I downloaded all my textbooks from there. As for digital access codes, you can either buy them online or from the bookstore. You can also download the iclicker reef app which is a lot cheaper than getting a physical iclicker. Hope this helps!

Agreed. Was completely disgusted when I saw this post that UVic decided to encourage the use of Zoom after what, something like their third concurrent lawsuit? Terrible security, selling users' data, and obeying the demands of a manipulative, kidnapping, torturing, organ-harvesting, let's-just-turn-these-people-into-red-goo-and-hose-them-into-the-sewers regime.

Our department has had a number of Zoom meetings since restrictions began, and will continue attending none of them.

I've been curious about BigBlueButton, but it still doesn't seem to be very popular at all.

Which part of it? :) In a nutshell: I took data in Google Transit format that BCTransit publishes on their site, loaded it into a database, and wrote a web-based app that uses http://www.twilio.com (I also bought the local Victoria number from them) to provide a voice/sms interface.

Read Millionaire Teacher, which is an amazing book (by a guy who used to live in Victoria as well) which pretty much parrots everything everyone is saying here, but in more detail. It also has some good general financial advice for day-to-day things.

Some things that haven't been said in this thread already.

• Make use of tax-efficient vehicles like a TFSA. Presumably you don't work (fulltime) so ignore RRSP for now. Use this for buying ETFs (Vanguard is a good option)
• Pay off all debts which accrue interest since you won't be earning interest to match that
• Live within your means.
• Looks for HISA banks like EQ bank to park cash you don't need

I actually bought an Aerobee Aeropress. I only asked about coffee because other people would appreciate the advice. The aeropress works really well. Just fill it up with hot water and coffee grounds and press the plunger. In the end, all I have to do to clean it is eject the completely dry puck of grounds. No additional cleaning necessary.Just like the reviews say, it makes really good coffee.