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Skip the easy stuff and spend your energy on the hard stuff is excellent advice for anyone doing a cs degree. The easy stuff you can google. The hard stuff is what will mold your mind into a sharp tool and you will never get the same chance to spend your time on it as you do in uni.


100%! I learned so much at a really high rate, I'll never ever have the time and focus to do that again, most probably. It felt really good to dig deep


That, and some subjects are really hard to learn at home/at job. Learning Linear algebra at home would be really hard, but learning some new programming language would work fine.


why is learning linear algebra at home hard?

no knowledge of this area, hence asking.




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