My respect literally went through the roof that you went for your bachelors and then went back to do the undergrad cs courses and then went for your masters! That’s some dedication right there. Specifically after not spending your entire undergrad on that level of critical thinking and pure logic.
@@kingman-bo5dt Harvard has some into classes. I would find a specific university and find exactly what they teach because very university is different.
Forgot to add: Tuition: $21,600 Grants: $14,400 Tuition after grants: $7,200 This doesn’t include cost of living. All prerequisite classes were taken at Cal State East Bay over the course of 2 years.
Ha ha, imagine having notes from your professor in class and not just the slides he probably made 10 years ago and never bothered to edit out the 20 mistakes in them that some students point out to them every year since. Why yes, I'm on my 5th semester for a CS degree, how did you know?
Starting my masters in 2 weeks for CIS. Got in on a hope, and an undergrad in heathcare with some tech experiance way in the past. Thanks for sharing! With everyone not getting degrees I always wonder who did. Thanks for all your help too!
That's crazy to hear someone talk about Prolog! Neat little language, took two semesters of it during my undergrad. Very few people seem to even know it exists.
4 months late, but I hope you see this comment. I just graduated and one of the professors I had is about 30 years behind the times. In one of my classes with him, we worked on prolog for 6 weeks, where we then compared it to Haskell as a logic vs functional language. Not the best use of modern languages, but despite the headaches, both languages were kind of fun to mess around with.
This is a great overview. I have a number of friends who studied CS at Cal Poly and I can attest that it is indeed a great program, and one of the best public CS programs in the US.
As a Danish master's student of Computer science having to go through 8 exams each year that completely decide my grades, this sounds kind of easy/laid-back
Same, I think Masters should be something like IT Forensics. Or Computational Hardware Design. Not "we did some reading of whitepapers on cryptography and learned to download Android SDK"
Comparing to my masters in Mexico. This sounded like a breeze, like a summer course. I got my masters degree while working full time and still it was easier that the electronics engineering major. But in my case we had a lot of math for machine learning and AI stuff. We learned about the Turing machines, and a little bit of big data and security
I have a BA and an MA in Psych and I just applied to anMA in CS and got accepted, surprisingly. I’m beyond excited! If I did it, anyone else here can. Good luck guys!
I got abolished for 6 weeks with 4 friends in analog technology theory class, during my final Exam year, and I was the only one to scare an 10/10 without having had any of the classes. If I knew in my freshman year, I’d never showed up :)
Brooo I'm usually an all a+ student but virtual learning has made my grades plummet. Good thing I'm not in highschool yet so my gpa wont be decimated. I feel so lucky though that there's all these resources to make programming and high school/uni less generally confusing. Thank you and all the other coding channels. Keep on coding
Uhm, ... that was pretty much my first two years of CS bachelor, master should be way more specialized and advanced, those were all basic courses. I wonder what the CS bachelor at that university looks like then Also, how is it that easy to get A's in a class... :o Here in germany you literally would have to suck the profs... nevermind you get the idea😂
@@Gilded2H That argument is valid, but it looks more like a way of easily satisfying the sheer ammount of demand for "low-spec" or "unpolished" IT workers. Let's be honest, an university graduate is still facing some years of education (work experiance also counts as education) to specialize in one field.
We have tons of classes and there were no textbooks in France when I did my degrees, only notes taken in class and slides. Good luck! x) Also you usually don't get As because "perfection doesn't exist", you get 14/20 if you're very good, 16/20 if you're super good. It can happen that you get more, but mainly in math, or with exceptional professors who are sick of this BS.
Damn I had DAA, Advanced Computer Networks in my Bachelors, and I took Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Data Science, Network Programming as my electives throughout my bachelors. I did most of the topics you mentioned in my bachelors. Is it even worth doing a masters then? The only thing i wouldn’t know would be Security and that too I had internships to self learn the basics of.
When first time I saw your video I thought I know you, I saw you before but I did not remember. But now I remembered. I saw you in Star Wars. You are Oscar Isaac.
Thanks for the amazing content - subscribed! I also have a non-technical bachelors and am looking to apply to a masters in CS like you did. Wonder if you have any tips and advice for the prereqs?
Attending Cal Poly SLO right now for Computer Engineering, sucks that it’s not in person because of COVID but nonetheless excited to possibly take a few of the courses you did!
@@simko5314 I'm not trying to win the conversation. I'm telling that in 21st century you can learn anything from the internet for free if you want. Colleges are not mandatory for learning. You can disagree but that's the truth.
Tanenbaum's Computer Networks and Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by James Kurose are excellent introductory text books on computer networking. Beet's networking guide is also a fun activity if you want to get some hands on tcp/ip programming skills. Stallings also has some more advanced material if you want to deep dive into networking and Mike Meyer's Network+ exam preparation material gives a whole other, not only theoretical/real life approch that can add a lot of depth to your knowledge.
This was terrific! I love the breakdown and summary of each. It sounds like one heck of a challenging program. Definitely going to check out their course offerings and syllabus to get an idea to broaden self study. I also like how you shared this experience. Clearly it required dedication and hard work.
Your case looks similar to mine, I also got first degree in human science and decided to change my curriculum the fastest way: a university-kind organisation with attitude - if you pay, you can study as long as you want, where 'master degree' is just a shortened version of bachelor degree by level of competency. I once got myself in debt studying in one of universities of London, and still failed. Now I study Master Degree in Computer Modeling at University of Vilnius(LT), I also needed prerequisites for that, but more modules: Discrete math, algorithms and ds, OOP, databases, computer architecture and software development - was a foundation year. Now I study: Nonlinear modeling, cryptography, spatial db, java tech, advanced algorithms, information security, data analysis, data visualization , master project on neural networks and thesis. That includes a lot of maths(differential equations, linear algebra, geometry etc) I probably should be hired by google if I were american. But I live in eastern europe :) and pay 0 money for my studies(excluding some course retakes) My advice: choose carefully what you are going to study
Programs vary greatly even within the U.S (I'm Canadian, but have looked into this in the past). Though a 5 years Masters seems very excessive tbh, I'd understand if it was a PhD...the typical length of a Masters around here is anywhere within 1-3 years.
@@theguitarist1290 You're right. In essence, it's a bachelor's and a master's combined - it's just that the program doesn't grant us a bachelor's degree. We need to finish the whole five years to get a degree, which will then be a master's.
@@Patrick-wj3qi I really doubt your bachelors degree offers graduate level AI or Theory of Computation in your first or second year lol. As for the other courses, it's pretty typical for a lot of Masters to offer undergrad courses as not all the students entering the program are from a CS background.
@@Patrick-wj3qi He listed two AI courses. One was an introduction (likely undergraduate), and the other was a graduate level course. Not all undergraduate degrees offer a course in AI so I would say it's fairly reasonable that they would offer an undergraduate level course before they attempted the graduate one.
Fun fact: I study in the university where prolog was invented (Aix Marseille University, even if at this time it wasn't grouped but I do study in the campus (Luminy) where it was created hehe), we used it in a logic class, syntax is quite special but it's fun But then the teacher were so happy that it com me from here X)
All those course units are similar to my computer engineering undergraduate bachelors programme at Makerere University,with exception of mobile app dev,
I applied for Computer Science Master studies and even attended the first semester but then realized it's such a waste of time for me for now so I abandoned that. And after watching this video I'm now even more sure that I made the right decision. Even though my average mark in diploma for Bachelor studies is A and liked to study overall, it was just so demotivating to spend so much time on stupid low-level assignments.
I must say, I really enjoyed watching this, so I had to like and subscribe. Starting an MSc Computing program in the UK this September. Wanted to know what it's like cos I'm from a non-computing background (BSc Geography).
@@McKayPorter yes, that's the most likely explanation. However, I don't know how it works in US, but in Italy (and the rest of Europe I think) admittance into a MSc might be bound to passing extra exams if your BSc didn't cover enough of certain "knowledge areas", which I think would be the case if your major didn't give you a formal introduction to algorithms and data structures.
After my bachelor degree on Computer Science i did my master on Information Security & Computer Forensics,most people who did that master they're working now as an IT Security and im the only one of them who is working as a Software Engineer
Well at the graduate level A's don't mean much other than it mean that you just pass a class. I wasn't super excited or anything because at the graduate level they either give an A or B, but what made it intensive is that you have complete all the work because every point counts. I felt that in grads school there is more flexibility, more freedom and more understanding about you as person and student. The thing I hate about grads school was writing papers and give citations.
It’s much easier now than 30 years ago. They call it grade inflation. Also the colleges are businesses and the student is the customer. They don’t want you to drop out.
I have scowered the internet for your full name, but I get nothing beyond Sam R. I wanted to know what company you currently work for. I love your content, and your history is very similar to mine
How rigorous were the classes in the quarter system? I did my undergrad at UCLA and my experience was not good. The classes were hard and 10 weeks just isn't enough time to understand everything they required. Im afraid of doing another quarter system school. You made it sound easy, so maybe it's a lot better? I do realize that UCLA CS undergrad is not a very good department in general.
This vid made me so sad. I wish that in Poland University would look at like in US. Instead we do bullshit courses like "Introduction to Programming" which are obligatory wasting our time. In my first three semesters I was learning basics of programming in three different languages from ppl who actually had no idea about languages they are teaching - none of them were "to be choosen", everything obligatory. You say you have 2-3 courses per quater - we had like 5-6 courses per semester (where there are two semesters per year). BD is 5 semesters and MD is another 3 semesters.
Kinda funny I'm 16 and I know at least a little about a lot of the things he's mentioned, as in the sql injection, wifi pineapple, ddos/dos attacks, etc... the main difference though is everything I know I've learned by myself, therefore there's massive gaps in my knowledge. Everything he's learned has been in a set course, therefore there's less gaps, but no course will get everything there possibly is to know about that subject.
This depends on your school. Some chose one language, some choose multiple languages. I my school we only used c++ . but the focus is not on the language but the cs concepts.
Great video. But I feel like I've taken all these courses in my bachelor's degree☺️Did you take any web development courses? Any programming language you've taken?
2 things I wished my colege in EU had, Futbal(not calling it soccer) and the hacling class you had on spring. But was a Electrotechnik Eng not a Computer Science Degree.
I always wanted to do an MS in Computer science from a good US University. Everyone says that you don't need a cs degree to be a developer, and that's true, but you get to learn so much more in a cs degree! Plus you don't have to know what and where to learn from. It's all laid out for you. And I think core computer science application based roles like AI in tech companies still practically require a CS degree. And most of all, you make a lot of friends and it's a lot of fun :)
@@thatoneuser8600 Multi threading, basic io - yes. Rest are higher level abstractions and tooling. It's important to have good grasp over fundamentals. Rest can be picked up much easier if you have a solid foundation of the fundamentals.
