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I suggest taking the weekend and "starting over," take your time re-learning everything from the first month. Now that the midterm stress is over, you can re-learn at your own comfortable pace. Take a lot of time to really hammer in the most basic concepts of functions, finding roots, log/exponent rules, limits, deriving, etc, because if you're not totally confident with them, it will make exam questions that much harder. Getting overly confident with the basics will mean that no word problem or slight variation can throw you off. Don't worry about the mark on this test, just focus the basic / fundamental concepts, then build on them and you will crush the next test. I made 46 calc 1 YouTube tutorials, and recommend that you watch them all from the start if you have time. I think the total duration of all of them is like 4.5 hours, so just watching up until where you've already covered will be manageable across a few evenings. Good luck and don't give up!

If you haven't started learning calculus yet I would start with that. Otherwise, I'd start with Statics. Engineer4Free has both courses. Links for the lazy: calculus, statics

on a serious note, this is pretty cool, a series of videos made by someone on this sub. Helped me getting through mid semester slump haha

u/engineer4free sponsor me please

Watch every single one of these. Every one.

http://www.engineer4free.com/calculus.html

Calculus is not a monster. People find it hard because they don't truly understand the meaning behind the math. I firmly believe if you put in the time, you will do very well. I believe in you, kid.

Check out my site, I've made a few hundred free tutorials, mostly for 1st year courses. I've got a full Calculus course, and a few others too. Should help you to get ahead, or just to supplement your lectures. Good luck!

Here's a video series which should cover everything needed for a student's first programming course.

Here's a book which is often recommended; however, I admit I've only ever skimmed.

Remember that the best way to learn and understand programming is to do it. Don't look at a new concept and assume you truly understand it without writing a program that uses it, even if it's small and simple.

Like the other guy suggested, I don't recommend dropping out after only a few weeks. If you finish the whole semester or first year and decide it's definitely not for you, then you can still get credit for a lot of the courses you take. It's possible that you might end up liking the program and stick with it too. As for the classes that you're currently in, I made a ton of YouTube tutorials for 3 of them that can probably help you out, here they are: chemistry, calculus, mechanics (statics only so far). Sometimes engineering just gets overwhelming and makes you want to ragequit, resources like YouTube, this subreddit, your class's big facebook group (if they have one), and your professor/TAs office hours can make all the difference in how you feel.

Do these help?

http://www.engineer4free.com/4/writing-very-simple-functions

http://www.engineer4free.com/4/when-to-pass-by-value-and-when-to-pass-by-reference

http://www.engineer4free.com/cplusplus.html

I made a a full set of YouTube tutorials for both General Chem and Calc 1, it might be worth while to check them out!

http://www.engineer4free.com/chemistry
http://www.engineer4free.com/calculus

Also, attend any/all help sessions that either department puts on for those classes, they are seriously worth the time to go.

Tension in a cable is same everywhere in the cable. That one end of the cable has 2000 lbs pulling down on it, which tells us that cable is in 2000 lbs of tension at any point in the cable. The reason that the 4000 is there is because there is technically 2 pieces of of the same 2000 lb cable pulling off to the left, so they each exert 2,000 lbs for a total of 4,000. This video should help illustrate the point.

Statics

This person has showed up many times before on this sub.

He’s actually pretty good at tutoring. They’re more of walkthroughs rather than notes.

I'm planning on studying AP Calc ab over this summer break, and I 'm primarily going to use khan academy if not I'm probably going to enroll in free calc courses, on top of that I will be using youtube. you know this.

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calc

>Sup /r/EngineeringStudents, > >I made a full set of 72 YouTube tutorials on Statics. They start at the basics of how to add and subtract vectors, and go all the way to 3D statics problems, trusses, frames & machines, SFDs & BMDs, and everything else. All the videos are hosted on YouTube, and also organized into sections on my website. Timing could have been a bit better, as a lot of people are finishing exams right now, but good luck to everyone still writing! Hope you guys like the videos, I plan on making many more in the next few months :) >
>http://www.engineer4free.com/statics > > >

Hey nice post and it's just what I needed to read as today is my last day of 10 years in university. Starting Monday I am not following my peers into corporate jobs, I'm going ahead full steam on my side project - I guess now it won't be a side project anymore :). I'm not going to make millions off it, but it's going to give me the freedom that I value and am after. I totally feel you on the positive vibes from user comments too, they can be so validating. Some good ones that I got this week are:

> I am so happy right now

> I've never seen anything more beautiful. [...] You're a life saver!

> i could cry tears of joy, thank you so much for making it so easy

> You are my hero!! Thankyou :)

PS aren't you the thunderthighs guy from the AT? I must have read one of your posts here before then looked around your site, I remember that and your perspective on coffee for some reason. If that's not you then never mind haha.

That's fine then as long as you finish statics before starting mechanics of materials. You can check out these statics tutorials they might help in addition to your lectures!

I check the FAQ and it said "If your goal is to learn C++, do not start with Python, C or any other language: start with C++." I think I will stick with C++ for now.

I guess my real question is what tutorial teaches me solid concepts. The C++ FAQ says doesn't give any real resources besides paid books. I've been looking at the top submissions in this subreddit, and I found this website: http://www.engineer4free.com/cplusplus.html. Is this a fine source?

>Dear /r/learnprogramming, > >I made a free C++ course for beginners and it seems relevant to share it with all of you here. It's a full introductory course made up of 47 lessons that start with "Hello World," assuming one has absolutely no programming experience, and goes on to cover loops, functions, vectors, and more. All the lessons all hosted on YouTube and organized into a course on my website. Hope you like it! > >http://www.engineer4free.com/cplusplus >

I made a free introductory PM course that you should check out: http://www.engineer4free.com/project-management.html
It won't count towards any certifications, but if you just want to learn the fundamentals of planning, scheduling, and control it's a good first resource.
While you're at it, you should ask for a promotion to team leader / shift manager or something similar or just keep asking to help with scheduling / logistics etc at your store for a step in the right direction. If you plan on spending the next year there make it count!