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Curious if anyone knows of a short overview of CS or Engineering topics(i.e. linear algebra, diff eqs, etc) for keeping refreshed as you age. I'm not talking a
by 01100011 8y ago
Curious if anyone knows of a short overview of CS or Engineering topics(i.e. linear algebra, diff eqs, etc) for keeping refreshed as you age. I'm not talking about a full tutorial, more like something you could scan through every few years just to make sure you're not forgetting the important stuff that you haven't used since college.
As a side note, I recently interviewed with a couple companies in the valley and the focus of the interviews was not on 'gotcha' algorithm questions. There were a few, but I came away feeling that the process was more fair and reasonable than I'd been led to believe. Now, granted, I'm an embedded software guy and maybe they tailored the questions for me, but I feel like I wasted a month going over graph algorithms. It was a good learning experience, but my time would have been better spent reviewing more basic embedded topics.
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- dominotw 8y agoI definitely got graph questions at google, facebook and two other smaller startups.
- earthicus 8y agoYou might look at Laub [1] for a short, somewhat advanced overview of linear algebra with some differential equations, as it's applied to classical engineering and science. [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898715768/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0898715768/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
- gumby 8y agoSkimming the materials at Open Courseware is really good. Just reading the problem sets from the thermo course I took 30 years ago brought back lots of buried memories and forced me to learn some stuff I honestly hadn't at the time. It's not taking an online course -- it's all the material handed out with an offline course. https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
- 1ark 8y agoIt's a good strategy. Refreshing and bringing back the memories, and patching some knowledge holes.
- ultrasounder 8y ago"my time would have been better spent reviewing more basic embedded topics." In my own experience embedded topics have all been a derivative of my experience working on embedded systems( I Interviewed for a EE role). What kind of embedded questions were you asked ?
- 01100011 8y agoSome things relating to board bringup(power-on to when the bios boots the OS, how DDR memory is initialized, etc). Basic algorithms(bit counting), atomics, virtual memory, malloc()/free() implementations, etc. Given system X and problem Y, what could cause problem Y. Not strictly embedded, but definitely not graph theory.
- ultrasounder 8y agoGreat!Thanks for sharing. And Good luck with interviews.