Mathematics & Computing

Fresources , Resource Hub

• CP (Competitive Programming)
  • An intellectual sport
  • Contestants, known as sport programmers, are challenged to solve algorithmic problems as fast as possible
  • Competing with the world
  • C++ preffered language to get started
  • ANCC Resources
  • Practice makes perfect.
  • Platforms: Codeforces, Codechef, CSES, AtCoder, LeetCode, Hackerrank
  • Compete: ACM-ICPC, Meta Hackercup
  • Really important for placement tests and becoming better at programming in general
• Software Development
  • Develop any application that excites you and ship it to the end user.
  • Bring your imagination and creativity in “hard” copy ;)
  • Learn new skills and build stuff!
  • Necessary for a lot of coding jobs (more important for offcampus) and something that is NOT taught in college
  • CV Point !
  • App Development/Web Development/ML/Game Development/Blockchain Development ...
  • Web Development
    • Good skill to begin with in software dev
    • Begin with HTML, CSS, JS and then move onto Fullstack or MERN stack dev
    • A lot of projects/freelance work is actively done
    • Frontend, Backend, UI/UX
    • FreeCodeCamp
    • Udemy
  • Game Development
    • Build simple games such as tic-tac-toe or complex ones such as Forza Horizon Series
    • Great option to check out if you have nice creative/art/story-writing skills(not to mention patience 🤕)
    • Generally no-code Resources:
      • GameDev courses on Coursera
      • Unity offers free subscription for students
  • ML
    • What? Make computers smart.
    • Let them see - Computer Vision
    • Let them predict & choose - Regression & Classification
    • Let them speak and understand Speech - Natural Language Processing
    • Act like humans: Robotics and Aritficial Intelligence
    • Why?: Self-Driving Cars, Large Language Models, THE FUTURE!!
    • Resources
      • Andrew NG Course
      • Kaggle for Practice and Projects
  • App Development
    • What? Build apps for mobile phones
    • How?
      • Learn Flutter (highly recommended)
      • Kotlin/Java are good options too
    • Resources
      • Flutter CodeLabs and Tutorials
      • Udemy Courses

Operating Systems and Linux

• Linux is a family of open source operating systems based on the linux kernel
• Why Linux?
  • It’s Lightweight compared to windows
  • It’s Free!!! And open-source, programmers have changed it to make it highly useful for programming and development
  • A Command Line interface along with GUI
  • You will also need Linux for courses,
  • So better get used to a popular Linux distro like Ubuntu.
• VirtualBox: You can use Linux in your windows environment with this.
• It will be useful if you are a beginner to Linux.
• Dual Boot: This means using 2 operating systems on your machine.
• While Dual booting is better than virtual-box, you should always keep a backup of your windows files in case anything bad happens
• You can check this for setup: Tutorial
• You can check out for tutorials on YouTube
• WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux): If you only want to use linux on CLI but don’t want to switch from Windows WSL Tutorial
• You can also use secure shell (ssh) in your command-prompt to connect to your csc account, which is a linux machine, and use it.

Courses

• Extremely important to refer to courses of study and recommended course structure
• Do you core courses on time.
• Look out for prerequisites and overlapping courses
• Build a tentative degree plan
• All courses are not offered in all semesters
• Don’t fail important courses like which are prerequisite for many courses
• Reach out to your seniors when in doubt

Internships

• Spend your first year exploring stuff. (Coursera/YouTube/Udemy)
• Find what you like and get very good at it
• Build your resume (get overleaf premium using NSUT id).
• Work on projects
• Dedicated sessions closer to intern season in the second and third year

Git and GitHub

• Solution to versioning and collaborative development.
• Make a github pro account using NSUT id!

StackOverFlow, Google, ChatGPT & Other

• Learn how to get your queries answered from the internet
• Stack overflow
• ChatGPT
• Open Course Wave
• LibreTexts
• Striver
  • Very helpful tool
  • Will help you through all subjects, especially coding
  • Not just answers, but explanations

LinkedIn

• Build your profile
• Network with people
• Learn about opportunities
• Learn professional skills
• LinkedIn

Typing

• Extremely useful skill
• Keybr, Monkeytype and other similar sites to learn and practice
• Compete against others on Typeracer