Study Skills: Ace Your Computing Science Courses
Top 5 VIRTUAL WORLD Tips
- Have your logic thought out and written down before starting to write programming code.
- Write code in modules, thoroughly testing each before integrating them all together.
- Consider special cases when testing your code.
- Put brief, but informative, comments throughout your code.
- Always allow plenty of time for testing and debugging your code.
Top 5 REAL WORLD Tips
- Get to know your classmates.
- Seek help from others when you get really stuck. Ditch the pride and learn to ask for help and build a close network of friends — ones who won’t mind a call at 2am to help you get un-stuck.
- Attend tutorials where strategies for tackling assignments are often discussed.
- Take a break every couple hours away from the computer screen.
- Don’t spend so much time engrossed in coding that your non-programming classes are neglected.
- bonus: take karate or find a screaming partner for those times your code won’t behave.
Peter is a Masters student at the University of Saskatchewan in sunny skies Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
