This is the most asked question on my channel by far so I thought I'd explain how I learned programming. In the process I got a little distracted and accidentally explained all of computer science in 8 minutes (kind of). 

The goal of this video was to show you the connections between modern day (high-level) programming and how it was implemented at the low level. I show you the basics in Java and convert it to C code, then into Assembly, which leads me to talk about how computers perform addition/subtraction, and the logic design behind that is all implemented with transistors. In case you couldn't tell, I love low level programming. Just a disclaimer that I'm not saying this is the best way to learn programming I am simply sharing what I feel was the most valuable in my learning so far. I know many people start with web technologies which can be a great introduction as well! I am currently teaching myself a lot of server networking & all that stuff. I just believe if you really want to understand how to design algorithms and solve problems in creative ways then the most valuable things you can learn are at the low level. Even though C is 40 years old it is still regarded as producing the most efficient code since you have full control over pointers and memory management with minimal overhead. (the only thing faster is assembly.. an even lower level)

Technical Resources!!
C Programming Language, 2nd Edition (Awesome Book): https://amzn.to/2LDeFOr
Easy68K (Assembly Simulator): http://www.easy68k.com/
Hexadecimal to Binary Conversions: https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-dec-bin-converter.html
Two's Complement (Binary Addition/Subtraction): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement

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3 years of Computer Science in 8 minutes

Since you guys really liked the last computer science video I decided to talk about my hardest CS course, nicknamed the "angel of death" at my school. It has a notoriously high fail rate for its assignments. You can expect to write a few thousand lines of C code in the first two assignments. This year we made a GEDCOM parser (which is actually what ancestry.com uses) to store information about family histories, allowing us to perform operations on family connections. In the second assignment we wrote a GEDCOM file writer, to create a GEDCOM file out of the memory objects. In the third assignment we used Node js and express to create a RESTful web server and UI for interacting with our parser. I tried to explain the file structure as best I could in a few minutes, so it will probably be very confusing to watch at first. The goal is to show you the complexities of the file structure, and how we built this web application to interface with our C API. This is basically how large scale cloud computing applications are made such as YouTube and Facebook.

GEDCOM Standard: https://edge.fscdn.org/assets/img/documents/ged551-86e5da89bae6ec7ba6f10e6794275d7e.pdf

The point I want to make is that this course is not as "hard" as everybody makes it out to be. Just dedicate at least two weeks to the assignment and you will be fine. None of the algorithms or data structures were difficult, rather it was the massive amount of errors possible when writing such a parser from scratch. There are thousands of tags and conditions if you want to create a full parser and identify everything listed in the standard. Thankfully we only implemented about half of the full parser seen on the standard (link above).

|| Technologies used ||

GEDCOM Parser API:
- C

Web server:
- Node js with express framework
- RESTful server, ajax, JSON
- JavaScript

Client:
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap

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Hardest Computer Science Course Explained | Angel of Death UoG

This is what I'm doing when I'm not posting YouTube videos. For a change I decided to film what I do at school, and show you guys some actual problems that software developers have to solve.

There's not much content on YouTube which actually shows real software dev, usually people just talk and don't really explain what they're doing. I want to take it upon myself to show what actually happens when writing software and if there's enough interest I can make videos as I am programming some new personal projects. On those I can actually show you guys code, and do whatever I want.

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What year / major / school?
- Second year computer science at university of guelph

What language?
- Almost everything for my assignments is written in C, I've had one Java course. Personally I know Java the most, then C, some web stuff for my website (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap), as well as R for stats courses. Oh and assembly haha that was fun.

How old is u?
- 19

Where u at?
- Canada

Why did u quit ur gaming channel?
- I want to be productive and create cool shit. Been working on many interesting side projects that I usually keep separate from YouTube but thinking about making videos about them. Gaming videos feel like a dead end for me creatively.

When can you post another video?
- When I'm not a slave to the education system (if everyone sent me a nice sum of money I could start my own company and be set, in the meantime subscribe and follow all my social medias will help) 

Can I see some code / what's next??
- ye look at my github (link under socials)

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Day in the Life of a Computer Science Student | UoG

My developer workflow has been worked on for about 1 year now.  I really love what I have built, with the help of twitch chat.  tmux is great.  i3 is grand, and vim is the best.

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My Developer Workflow - How I use i3, tmux, and vim

It's true, so why so many wrong proofs?

There are many incorrect proofs that .999... = 1 on YouTube and elsewhere. In this video we see why all those proofs are wrong, and then demystify what is actually meant when a mathematician says .999... = 1 and I explain why it is actually true. Did your favorite math creator make one of these mistakes?

*Title only applies before the first viewing of this video and only to people who have not studied real analysis.

― mCoding with James Murphy (https://mcoding.io)

References on the standard definition of decimals and repeating decimals (please read if you are confused or unsure about the standard notation):
https://www.math.utah.edu/~bertram/courses/4030/Reals.pdf
https://people.math.sc.edu/filaseta/gradcourses/Math785/Math785Notes1.pdf
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~comez/Decimal%20expansion.pdf
http://kevincarmody.com/math/repeatingdecimals.pdf
https://amsi.org.au/teacher_modules/pdfs/Real_numbers.pdf

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Every PROOF you've seen that .999... = 1 is WRONG

How many nooby C++ habits do you have?

Up your C++ skill by recognizing and ditching these nooby C++ habits. Post how many you fell for!

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0:00 Intro
0:13 #1. using namespace std
0:42 #2. using std endl in a loop
0:55 #3. index based for when range-for fits better
1:10 #4. rewriting std algorithms
1:34 #5. using C array over std array
1:50 #6. any use of reinterpret cast
2:39 #7. casting away const
3:24 #8. not knowing map bracket inserts element
3:39 #9. ignoring const-correctness
3:59 #10. not knowing string literal lifetime
4:12 #11. not using structured bindings
4:47 #12. out-params instead of returning a struct
5:04 #13. not using constexpr
5:21 #14. forgetting to mark destructor virtual
6:10 #15. thinking class members init in order of init list
6:37 #16. not knowing about default vs value initialization
7:28 #17. MAGIC NUMBERS
7:41 #18. modifying a container while looping over it
8:30 #19. returning std move of a local
9:10 #20. thinking std move moves something
9:42 #21. thinking evaluation order is left to right
10:56 #22. unnecessary heap allocations
11:23 #23. not using unique ptr and shared ptr
12:11 #24. not using make unique and make shared
12:23 #25. any use of new and delete
12:52 #26. any manual resource management
13:24 #27. thinking raw pointers are bad
14:25 #28. using shared ptr when unique ptr would do
14:48 #29. thinking shared ptr is thread-safe
15:26 #30. mixing up const ptr vs ptr to const
16:00 #31. ignoring compiler warnings

31 nooby C++ habits you need to ditch

I wont be using vim 9.  it is dead too me.  NeoVim forever.

In the last 3 weeks went full lua.  I have finally committed to Neovim.

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