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comment April 07, 2021 Score: 19 u/RepresentativeField6

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You probably still have all the old assignment descriptions, do them for real now. Retake those classes via free online universities and daily leetcode. You’re gonna have to grow up and dedicate 5 or 6 hours each day to studying. The good part is between Coursera/MIT/Edx and Harvard, the entire CS curriculum is well covered.

If you continue your current trajectory, you won’t get anything more than a help desk job, it’s easy as hell to see who can’t code and nobody hires without a technical interview today.

For anyone else in the same boat, don’t optimize trying to get out of college ASAP. Take your time and digest the material so you don’t wind up spending 4 years to get a job driving Uber. Don’t be afraid to retake a class that you got a C+ in, especially something core like 111,211,313. If it’s 343 or something you hate w/e you’ll never need that again, but actual “coding” classes, have higher standards than just passing.

The point of paying tuition to QC is to gain marketable skills from experts in your field. People hiring aren’t gonna check your GPA, they’re gonna ask you coding questions and see right through you. Don’t be afraid to fail or retake a class. You are paying one way or another. (Even if financial aid covers everything, you’re paying in the fact that you won’t be able to get another degree on the government’s dime and all you got your first time around was a piece of paper and how to write Hello World) Compared to other college’s, QC is cheap so even if you have to pay for a few extra classes out of pocket, it’s w/e. (Extrapolate it out to 30 years)

Most of your professor’s don’t care that you cheat. Too hard to police, and they’re overworked anyways. It’s not like they get a cookie every time they catch someone. The only reason they police it, is to stop the entire class from doing it with varying levels of success.

The problem that OP has and I see a lot of others have is that they have shaky fundamentals, but due to being short sighted, the thought of retaking a class is “wasting” a semester, when in reality all your future classes are effectively worthless because you don’t “really” have the prerequisites.

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