A Cambridge Supervision (Computer Science at Queens')

Watch a real supervision with the Queens' Computer Science Director of Studies and two second year Computer Science students.
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[@borm6796]

Thanks for sharing this. This shows the importance of having a good foundational knowledge as software engineers and developers. There are so many of those people who don't know the basic concept of OOP but still work as a developer everyday thanks to all these vocational and technical training courses. The quality of the people who are properly educated is just priceless these days.

[@malikbenslimane2873]

12:30 Jake: hhhhhhhhhhhhh Superviser: hhhhhhhhhhhhh other dude: em... that's a guy who want to get a degree hhhhhhhhh

[@gabrieldamian6191]

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[@dravenomar4032]

@Gabriel Damian instablaster :)

[@gabrieldamian6191]

@Draven Omar thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff now. I see it takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.

[@gabrieldamian6191]

@Draven Omar it did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I am so happy:D Thank you so much you saved my ass :D

[@dravenomar4032]

@Gabriel Damian Happy to help =)

[@JakeSoccerMan]

Congrats on 200 videos, mate! Keep up the good work! Can't wait to see your next video

[@CognitiveSurge]

Supervisions seem incredibly useful, I wish they had them at my University.

[@strateeg32]

Well it is easy if your tuition is like upwards of 20k per student. Then you have the money to hire a lot of staff

[@SpontaneousWhale]

Nice one Jake. I start next month and it's nice to see what I've actually signed up for!

[@wozzywick]

Thank you for uploading this. I'm planning to study an arts subject but this was still a very useful insight

[@MMLauritsen]

I recently did a similar course, its funny to hear you talk about stuff I know. I love Scala and pattern matching.

[@hillarycheah7620]

this makes my uni seem lousy in comparison

[@angelogandolfo4174]

Almost every Uni in the world - literally - will appear “lousy” when compared with Cambridge or Oxford.

[@farhanahromli7564]

in my university we have 'tutorials' which is basically very much like your supervisions but held in larger groups than just a pair of students held after a particular topic. similar to yours we arent assessed for it as well. but i think it'd be nice to have pairs of two and a supervisor. shy students like me usually dont interact as much in tutorials :(

[@evelynlau1929]

I think most probably due to the heavy workloads of the professors and also the shortage of staffs with large number of students make it kinda difficult to have supervision for a group of two at a time

[@elizabethfloat5995]

Thank you this was very useful! I've always wondered what supervisions will be like

[@ThePumpkinEye]

I think EVERY UNIVERSITY should do this!

[@chrischoy9]

ThePumpkinEye You could try organising a weekly tutorial session with 2 or 3 other very passionate pupils providing that your lecturer is willing to help out as a supervisor. 9 times out of 10; they're passionate about the subject area, and won't mind.

[@draculanova6548]

Sadly only Oxford and Cambridge can afford to offer this kind of teaching. Their endowments are orders of magnitude greater than any other UK university.

[@michaelanderson7715]

@@draculanova6548 Well, _one_ order higher !

[@unev]

Thank you for this precious info.

[@cobaltutopia]

Jargon overload!

[@DmitriNesteruk]

This is really good. I did Computer Science in a different UK university and we had nothing like this.

[@elsalolz]

You look so serious Jake! But great video, thanks for going the lengths you did to share it with us :)

[@gianaraxx]

thanks for uploading jake :)

[@Alarmedy8]

Amazing video jake really good insight.

[@andreacostanzo1632]

Every university should do this! In this way is more easier understand how to prepare for exams and you can reach a deeper knowledge of what are you studying. I'm studying automotive engineering in Italy (Turin), and we have nothing like this. Anyone will help you. I've been in UK many times and I think that life for a student (especially in universities like Cambrdige) is more and more easier!

[@andreacostanzo1632]

If you find something wrong in my English please tell me, I'm still not so good ahah I'm learning.

[@andreacostanzo1632]

+Thomas Moores yes I've seen that after that I've published the comment ahah thanks!

[@dorrez2k8]

Thanks for these videos - I have just come across them. I got accepted this January to study Computer Science at Gonville & Caius, and I'll be starting this October. These videos are really insightful. I've been quite anxious about how advanced other people will be. Could you perhaps give some insight from your own experiences :)? Thanks ever so much!

[@bhco]

this was a really interesting video. thanks for the upload. I've graduated at Ruskin in Computer Science, so its interesting to see this.

[@willo543freakshow]

Anything after if statements went straight over my head!

[@issy0613]

I haven't the slightest what you three are discussing, but it is great that I now know what a typical supervision at Cambridge is like and what occurs in one. :)

[@issy0613]

Parkjiminfan BTS eyyyyy army ^^ (you have good taste in music)

[@wb8cxo]

Jake did the other two participants see the vid before you made it public? Good work as usual! But distressing to see you in a pinch! :)Thanks!

[@millennia]

This is really cool. I wish I was fortune it enough to study at a university like Cambridge! keep uploading, Jake! Enjoying all of your videos. :)

[@lailadeen4858]

*fortunate

[@moritzvon9609]

Great video jake!

[@MikeGill87]

Brilliant. Thanks a lot for this one, I feel like following you all the way through year 2 I'm already very capable to compare the British (assuming Cambridge is representative of it) and Czech system of uni education. Yours seems much more effective. :-)

[@ShravanKumar147]

awesome man, really interesting

[@Disney0702]

Hiya Jake! This is a really valuable video, thanks or uploading it! Would you say that an interview at Cambridge is conducted similarly to a supervision?

[@3irtyone]

Love your videos. Not thinking of going to university but it's interesting to see the process!

[@3irtyone]

Forgot to add I'm interested in the IT field btw, found you because you did a computer science course :p

[@prashb7]

Watching your supervision session was indeed interesting. This is really a better way to get a deeper understating of the concepts that you're really interested in, you've the freedom to ask even stupid questions, which you might not ask in lecture fearing embarrassment. Isn't it? Also I think you'll make better rapport with the supervisor than a lecturer. What would you say?

[@berniec1949]

Interesting. I think things have changed over the years. It is 50 years since my last supervisions and they were in Economics at Queens'. If there was a link between Supervisions and exams, that was definitely never clear to me - IIRC. The dynamics on the video are about the same. Supervisions do put you on the spot and my supervisors (who included John Eatwell and Ajit Singh) took it as a personal insult if you came ill-prepared. Jake, I have watched a number of the video. Good job.

[@NicolaiCzempin]

How do "supervisees" get paired up?

[@KarthikaPai]

what's your favorite cs subject so far?

[@tamerjaber6987]

great vlogs jake 2 thumbs up for you buddy ^_^ would you please give us a hint on the compsci student plan and what course involved or where we can find it i really need to know since im a compsci too ,,

[@Ritzybasherz]

this was crazy interesting

[@tza9397]

Do your supervision partners change? And are your supervisors always the same?

[@mikecfly]

Thanks for the info Jake,

[@aretinastefani7652]

Really useful thank you!😆

[@goldensternen9706]

Dr. Rice! He interviewed you :3

[@annacaroline6865]

Hey! I have a question concerning under 18 year old students.. So if I ever manage to get into Cambridge I would start my first year at the age of 17 and turn 18 in February. How are your experiences with students who aren't 18 yet? Are there many of them? Do they get into clubs and can buy drinks? Are there many ID controls? Do they have to be back in their room earlier than the older students? It would be great if you could reply because I'm a bit worried about being excluded from the other students in the first couple of months when it's usually the best time to get to know people and make friends.. Greetings Anna

[@Y.Bergamot]

Very beneficial video 👍

[@MissAnnettka]

thank you)

[@thirisha26]

wow this is so informative bro !!xo

[@theboutique1]

I have no interest in studying computer science and I will never get excepted into Cambridge but I still found this a really interesting video :) I always thought you learnt the work in the supervisons which I though odd as uni usually promotes independent learning ... I never realised you just went over the work it must be really useful and you get to have practically one on one help rather than a lecture !!

[@eddie_d1233]

You will probably never see this but it is something I have been wondering about. The fellow student has been in many of your videos (including the Germany competition) yet we don't know anything about him/them. It would be so interesting, now in 2021, to see a video about some of these people. There has been no context in the experience of how these fellow students impacted on your education.

[@XNAforyou]

Is the supervisor the same person who gives actual lectures?

[@JV-eh3lh]

wow it's like having a private tutor. awesome

[@Ohmriginal722]

I wish we had supervision’s at our college

[@s1nister688]

For a moment I thought this was interactive and starting from "properties of object oriented programming language", starting answering his questions and then realized this is just a video and I can never be at Cambridge. ;_;

[@ab16426]

Hi Jake one of my neighbours son got into Cambridge computer science and is scared that it is too hectic and pressure environment? Is that true?

[@Lauralkke]

Hello, I'm currently 15, and I'd love to do some sort of computer science degree. A few people from Oxford and Cambridge came to our school, and ten of us (including me) were chosen to go to a presentation they did for us about Oxbridge. In this talk, they mentioned that out-of-school learning is really useful. How much did you know on the subject of computer science (languages etc) and what type of things should I be doing in order to learn things like this? I thoroughly enjoy computer science, but have no idea how to learn more, and the only thing I do now is my computer science GCSE course where we're learning python at the minute. Thanks!

[@jakewrightnet]

Before I started uni, I knew the basics of a few languages including PHP and C#, and I'd done a lot of web development. I also did work experience at a software development company. Learning a language like Java or C# will teach you quite a few computer science concepts. I first learned C# from a book, but pick a style that suits you.

[@darkheart1721]

Damn a supervision is nice; the best the states has are office hours. I'm talking about the majority of public Unis.

[@ictennispro]

Actually a lot big universities in U.S have things called tutorials that go along with big lecture classes. Tutorials are basically the same as these supervisions. They're in small groups with a teacher's assistant, and there's work you have to turn in and discussion you must participate in. Also a lot of science courses have the science class and then that class' lab. The lab is similar to a tutorial.

[@coffle1]

ictennispro i dont know which uni you go to, but I doubt your tutorials are as small as these supervisions

[@darkheart1721]

+ranvideogamer Yeah, I don't know what unis he is going to.

[@ictennispro]

ranvideogamer I never said they were this small. I said small groups. this looks more like a pair of students...tutorials are smaller sizes than the lecture. My university also has recitation which is similar. But not this small.

[@goldensternen9706]

You're really cute when you laugh haha

[@ilmansonic]

Wait a minute... At 10:35 you said that each supervision requires 4 hours of preparation, 1 hour for the supervision itself and 4 supervisions per week. (4+1)*4 = 20 hours per week just for supervisions. Damn, that's some heavy workload...

[@MurdoDW]

+Ilman yeah cambridge ain't a joke, I do natsci which has 4 supervisions a week and also 18 hours of practicals each week too ontop of 12 hours of lectures....

[@macktheknife7171]

Do you not have seminars as well? or does a supervision replace a seminar?

[@jakewrightnet]

Supervisions replace seminars for CompSci at Cambridge. I think some subjects have seminars as well though.

[@Shotpl0xGaming]

studying a2 computer science Jack. Lucky enough i understood a partial amount of Object oriented. Great videos!

[@SotaSports]

The other guy looks like Marco Reus

[@AndrewJYoung-zu5ny]

Haha true

[@ghostgoblin624]

+Sota Sports he really does lol

[@korruptnovellst4751]

interesting videos

[@lyradallirep]

PhD in Artificial Intelligence, that's cool!

[@JordanLukeUK]

Whats the internet like at cambridge is it wired or wireless and what are the speeds like

[@jakewrightnet]

Rooms have ethernet ports and most of the uni has wifi. It's generally pretty fast, but it depends where you go. It's like 300Mbps in the Computer lab.

[@Keithj136]

A.Turing was at Cambridge ....are you going to be as good ?

[@jakewrightnet]

Probably not

[@danthebiker07]

+Jake Wright big up for your honesty

[@ouisdfihsadfnijsnad]

Do you always have the same other person for the supervision?

[@jakewrightnet]

No, the supervision groups are often changed.

[@zlotnleo]

Am I the only person to rewatch this because I find SML fascinating?

[@iam_A10]

I love your vlogs, but the problem here is I don't understand a single thing you guys discussed about. I guess that's because I don't take compsci. It's beyond my comprehension, really

[@kasperlarsen4274]

Hey Jake! I'm really interested in learning to program in different languages - but I don't know where to learn "in-depth programming" (ofcourse not on a study-level)? I'm 15 and still in the last year before high school. I'm sorry for my weird English - I'm a Dane. :b

[@jakewrightnet]

I prefer learning from books, they tend to go into more detail than a lot of KZbin videos and other online guides.

[@kasperlarsen4274]

Do you recommend any books?

[@samsemp10l23]

Kasper Larsen you probably know but a good book is code complete

[@johnosullivan2017]

Hmm, I think Andy Rice was mixing up encapsulation and abstraction in that explanation of OO....

[@acr31cam]

You are quite right - I did. Oops.

[@victoriapownall4871]

Wish other unis did this ; just sitting in lectures with 200 other odd people doesn't help many people actually digest the content properly

[@Trihawk7]

This has probably put me off CompSci...

[@aminahahmed1691]

It's not that bad because atm you have been exposed to something that he has built up overtime. Like I am doing computing and I'm at the beginning and I only use Python but I do understand some of that but not all.That however hist means I'll be building up all that knowledge on the future

[@jeffryputrasibarani9352]

Profesional

[@pathbee]

how do supervisors have time to do the whole class?

[@thesaxophoneboy]

+Toby Dawn Supervisors will supervise all the students in one (or a few) college(s), not the whole cohort. That's the beauty of the Cambridge system - attention on the individual student is great!

[@juozas_domarkas]

"C". You would be surprised.

[@angelogandolfo4174]

NOTE: there’s a slight implication at the start of this video, that Cambridge University is the only UK University that uses Tutorial Groups heavily. NOT SO. I went to another UK University (no, not Oxford, LOL). I studied physics. There too, we had Tutor Groups with almost identical frequency, duration and depth to what these guys are doing. Also, friends of mine at a.wide variety of other UK Universities agreed that they all ran VERY similar tutoring sessions. Just sayin’!!

[@InfiniteExia184]

Your supervisor is attractive!

[@monstermunch4956]

Wow. Imagine if every uni did this. Most unis are awful

[@bitmln003_]

Jake, you're good looking but your classmate there is good looking as well. Damn I need to take Comp Sci.

[@sammybray5346]

What is that supposed to do with him exactly?

[@aminahahmed1691]

+Sammy Bray 😂😂😂

[@williambray1620]

Why do you try to put on a posh accent when you're clearly just a Geordie

[@AdamMcVeigh11]

Studying at cambridge - "Have you ever done any hacking?"

[@wowshamanful]

Adam McVeigh University won`t teach you to hack xD They teach you the foundations!!! For example if you are taking course on information they will teach ypu to improve that security and so on! For example using that course you can do hacking on your own by exploiting those weaknesses of a system. I hope that this was kind of a helpful question :)

[@wowshamanful]

instead of "information" i meant "security"

[@Burzyk22]

Well that blond guy was annoying me coz of that "mm" ; "ye" ; "mm" (..) Sorry.. Had to write that down :P