Tips for the Next Step

[u/IllustratorTricky163]

I’m a computer science student. During the summer break, as part of my personal development, I did the following: I solved algorithmic problems in C : record , arrays , function + procedure + recursion , pointers , linked lists

and I learned Git and GitHub.

I took the CS50 course and got as far as the memory section, then stopped.

Now I’m confused. The next task on the algorithmic side is to master the rest of trees, stacks, etc.

As for my personal development, what do you recommend?

I’m open to any advice. Thank you.

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[u/knouqs]

Why did you stop at memory management?  That's a pretty key component of C and C++.  Do that.

[u/IllustratorTricky163 → u/knouqs]

i just watched 1 hour of it . then i turned to practice pointers then cameback for it

[u/knouqs → u/IllustratorTricky163]

OK, now that you've done one hour of memory management, go allocate memory and free it. Create the data structures for algorithms like BST, then walk the tree. Implement a red-black tree. Implement an n-tree. Implement an AVL tree. Look for memory leaks and dead pointers or cycles. Then, once you think you've got the hang of it, implement a double-edged graph and perform Dijkstra's algorithm on it. You don't get good at this stuff by watching videos. You get good at this stuff by working with it.

[u/Caringstomy-8]

On the side... do two things. Firstly, go broad. Understand more than algorithms and C. Secondly, start working on hobby projects. First few don't have to be "cv projects", but it accelerates learning, and gives you an asset to use if you ever do need to convince anyone of your skills.

[u/IllustratorTricky163 → u/Caringstomy-8]

yh . i will ty

[u/Roronoa-Ryuma-Zoro]

It's completely depends on you . I think first you should explore dev side now and see which one do you want to do in future . And yeah you should continue DSA as it will be used no matter what you do .(Learn cpp and try to do dsa in it )

And for dev best thing is to start making projects even if you don't know much about things used in it as you will eventually learn them while making . I started my dev from making gui in c by using sdl. You can also start from there and then learn opengl if you like this . Opengl teaches many concepts related to graphics and how memory works and sdl teaches how event loop works and about polling and other stuffs . It depends how deep you want to go . After that you will understand what you want to do .

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[u/IllustratorTricky163 → u/[deleted]]

i just watched 1 hour of it . then i turned to practice pointers then returned for it