My Computer Science Masters Degree in 9 Minutes

[@engineerwrecker8153]

I got a Master’s Degree in Beer Pong but the school mis-spelled it as Electrical Engineering.

[@davidperrii]

This!

[@brivdon6746]

Ah soccer, the most important class in a cs degree

[@fredi1505]

We had volleyball

[@brivdon6746]

@@fredi1505 not a true cs major, you need soccer

[@mikejohnstonbob935]

You guys had PE in university?

[@neverdeadjustasleep7]

This is where interviewers truly filter out strong students from the weak ones.

[@brivdon6746]

@@neverdeadjustasleep7 I wouldn't hire someone without a soccer class

[@DanaYi13]

ah yes, weight training and soccer, the fundamentals of cs

[@jakubd]

You can code?

[@tmnic6971]

Exactly, gotta train those weights for your neural network💪💪💪💪

[@genericusername4206]

holy shit youre here

[@DanaYi13]

@@genericusername4206 I'm everywhere :p

[@marnotto8269]

Cubing godess

[@tottiegod8021]

My respect literally went through the roof that you went for your bachelors and then went back to do the undergrad cs courses and then went for your masters! That’s some dedication right there. Specifically after not spending your entire undergrad on that level of critical thinking and pure logic.

[@kingman-bo5dt]

What are the core subjects to learn for undergraduate degree ?

[@tottiegod8021]

@@kingman-bo5dt theory of computer science, basic computer architecture, algorithms (DSA/ALGO) to name a few

[@kingman-bo5dt]

@@tottiegod8021 if you don't mind can you specify the subjects, because I'm confused but wanna know a roadmap.

[@tottiegod8021]

@@kingman-bo5dt Harvard has some into classes. I would find a specific university and find exactly what they teach because very university is different.

[@jasonhartman1650]

"I think I blacked out and I woke up with an A" LOL

[@theresarapior2926]

Yeah this makes Cal Poly sound worse not better :-/

[@corruptedsave145]

Ha ha, imagine having notes from your professor in class and not just the slides he probably made 10 years ago and never bothered to edit out the 20 mistakes in them that some students point out to them every year since. Why yes, I'm on my 5th semester for a CS degree, how did you know?

[@ioannismavrogiannis151]

Same here bro

[@Gaellka]

Same bro. Like, everytime he opens his slides there are always mistakes. And he dont even bother to fix that in like, 12 years.

[@mormantu8561]

Yup and then they edit the slides to fix their mistake and afterwards when they close the powerpoint they press "Don't save" and the cycle restarts.

[@DAHVIEDK]

As a Danish master's student of Computer science having to go through 8 exams each year that completely decide my grades, this sounds kind of easy/laid-back

[@thebleugaming9444]

I go through 24 each year i don't recommend it

[@TornacenseDeFuturo]

It’s the US, what have you expected?

[@thebleugaming9444]

@@TornacenseDeFuturo well they have the highest ranked university's so i would expect to be harder to achieve good grades

[@bigshaqsmathematicalinstit3318]

@@thebleugaming9444 maybe the guy studied hard to get those good grades...

[@gordonramsdale]

@@bigshaqsmathematicalinstit3318 But the topics are basic

[@chisaladominique2622]

I'm doing Computer science & I've never seen that many A's😭😭😭 I'm so motivated

[@kiarastreet6180]

Yes all those A’s I’m over here looking like 👀😳👀😳

[@quincylarsonmusic]

This is a great overview. I have a number of friends who studied CS at Cal Poly and I can attest that it is indeed a great program, and one of the best public CS programs in the US.

[@faxxaznone]

Freecodecamp master is here 🙌

[@MrsJoy-dv3dg]

Starting my masters in 2 weeks for CIS. Got in on a hope, and an undergrad in heathcare with some tech experiance way in the past. Thanks for sharing! With everyone not getting degrees I always wonder who did. Thanks for all your help too!

[@ianbdb7686]

How's it going now? I'm an IT bachelor thinking about getting a CS masters

[@corwinpena892]

That's crazy to hear someone talk about Prolog! Neat little language, took two semesters of it during my undergrad. Very few people seem to even know it exists.

[@logank]

4 months late, but I hope you see this comment. I just graduated and one of the professors I had is about 30 years behind the times. In one of my classes with him, we worked on prolog for 6 weeks, where we then compared it to Haskell as a logic vs functional language. Not the best use of modern languages, but despite the headaches, both languages were kind of fun to mess around with.

[@justapugontheinternet]

I did most of these during my undergrad period. I'd think Master's would be a little bit more specialised or math intense

[@NGC1433]

Same, I think Masters should be something like IT Forensics. Or Computational Hardware Design. Not "we did some reading of whitepapers on cryptography and learned to download Android SDK"

[@Haibrayn42]

Comparing to my masters in Mexico. This sounded like a breeze, like a summer course. I got my masters degree while working full time and still it was easier that the electronics engineering major. But in my case we had a lot of math for machine learning and AI stuff. We learned about the Turing machines, and a little bit of big data and security

[@adipurnomo5683]

@@Haibrayn42 can you explained that bro

[@patakinorbert379]

almost every single class that you just said was covered in my 2-3-4 year, and its just a bachelor simple bachelor CS degree in romania

[@cachem11]

I feel the same. The courses are too easy for graduate level.

[@puneetsingh9678]

The lighting setup is dope 👌👌

[@Deciipher007]

You blacked out and got an A? I blacked out and was removed from the class for sleeping with a C grade in practical

[@CallousCoder]

I got abolished for 6 weeks with 4 friends in analog technology theory class, during my final Exam year, and I was the only one to scare an 10/10 without having had any of the classes. If I knew in my freshman year, I’d never showed up :)

[@juanzaragoza2660]

Sounds like you had a really good experience! I'm currently struggling to get my Bachelors and my school sucks! All the professors are super cocky!

[@ahmadghanayim7259]

"NSA can decrypt all our traffic.." would you mind giving the name of that paper? Or something that can help search for it?

[@rambo3rd471]

Yeah, I'm curious about what he meant.

[@oaklyfoundation]

Yeah that made no sense, unless NSA got some backdoor like with the elleged elliptic curve backdoor there is no way for NSA to decrypt like AES256

[@KeepOnCoding]

Forgot to add: Tuition: $21,600 Grants: $14,400 Tuition after grants: $7,200 This doesn’t include cost of living. All prerequisite classes were taken at Cal State East Bay over the course of 2 years.

[@mistersig]

how did you get the grants?

[@KeepOnCoding]

I applied through FAFSA

[@mozord404]

Finally someone who's doing it for a graduate degree

I have a BA and an MA in Psych and I just applied to anMA in CS and got accepted, surprisingly. I’m beyond excited! If I did it, anyone else here can. Good luck guys!

[@rahulpanda123]

How did you get in , can u pls share how did u manage prerequisite before admit

[@muhammedaytekin6665]

Uhm, ... that was pretty much my first two years of CS bachelor, master should be way more specialized and advanced, those were all basic courses. I wonder what the CS bachelor at that university looks like then Also, how is it that easy to get A's in a class... :o Here in germany you literally would have to suck the profs... nevermind you get the idea😂

[@mikehawk4583]

Yap... I’m also from Europe... I don’t wanna be an asshole but his masters was bullshit... how can you only take 2 undergrad classes a quarter?

[@01pigoso]

@@mikehawk4583 You should try UWS in Scotland. That was such a rubbish uni, even this guy's uni sounds decent in comparison. 😱

[@wilsonlomotey1167]

😂😄 "Here in Germany"... I felt that

[@muhammedaytekin6665]

@@Gilded2H That argument is valid, but it looks more like a way of easily satisfying the sheer ammount of demand for "low-spec" or "unpolished" IT workers. Let's be honest, an university graduate is still facing some years of education (work experiance also counts as education) to specialize in one field.

[@VioletteToussaint]

I'm French, I agree.

[@rishabhanand4270]

Damn I had DAA, Advanced Computer Networks in my Bachelors, and I took Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Data Science, Network Programming as my electives throughout my bachelors. I did most of the topics you mentioned in my bachelors. Is it even worth doing a masters then? The only thing i wouldn’t know would be Security and that too I had internships to self learn the basics of.

[@leontius5502]

Brooo I'm usually an all a+ student but virtual learning has made my grades plummet. Good thing I'm not in highschool yet so my gpa wont be decimated. I feel so lucky though that there's all these resources to make programming and high school/uni less generally confusing. Thank you and all the other coding channels. Keep on coding

[@bladesharpner6933]

I wish my college made me industry ready as well 😔

[@berkekaancetinkaya8721]

Colleges are not for learning

[@simko5314]

@@berkekaancetinkaya8721 Colleges are for learning, they just don’t teach you the necessary skills required to land a job (sometimes).

[@berkekaancetinkaya8721]

@@simko5314 so what's the purpose of college then if it's not preparing you?

[@simko5314]

@@berkekaancetinkaya8721 Further education/Master’s/PhD? 🤷‍♀️

[@berkekaancetinkaya8721]

@@simko5314 I'm not trying to win the conversation. I'm telling that in 21st century you can learn anything from the internet for free if you want. Colleges are not mandatory for learning. You can disagree but that's the truth.

[@bob80808]

Wow... that is like one or two of my uni years here in Spain... really makes you think xD

[@dermacon5172]

Hm, in Germany a majority of these classes are already part of the bachelor of computer science. At least at the university im attending...

[@dawitashenafi2553]

What uni are u in?

[@edwardlawea4166]

There. Are diferent than here.

[@Digger-Nick]

That's because he didn't finish the bachelor's in CS

[@theguitarist1290]

@@Patrick-wj3qi I really doubt your bachelors degree offers graduate level AI or Theory of Computation in your first or second year lol. As for the other courses, it's pretty typical for a lot of Masters to offer undergrad courses as not all the students entering the program are from a CS background.

[@theguitarist1290]

@@Patrick-wj3qi He listed two AI courses. One was an introduction (likely undergraduate), and the other was a graduate level course. Not all undergraduate degrees offer a course in AI so I would say it's fairly reasonable that they would offer an undergraduate level course before they attempted the graduate one.

[@nonyafletcher601]

This was terrific! I love the breakdown and summary of each. It sounds like one heck of a challenging program. Definitely going to check out their course offerings and syllabus to get an idea to broaden self study. I also like how you shared this experience. Clearly it required dedication and hard work.

[@NvmThemHereIAm]

Sounds like your average bachelor's program. Crazy

[@fraidoonhu9284]

When first time I saw your video I thought I know you, I saw you before but I did not remember. But now I remembered. I saw you in Star Wars. You are Oscar Isaac.

[@sahtube1234]

Lol I see it

[@PIEadikt]

Attending Cal Poly SLO right now for Computer Engineering, sucks that it’s not in person because of COVID but nonetheless excited to possibly take a few of the courses you did!

[@chillacombs8790]

All those course units are similar to my computer engineering undergraduate bachelors programme at Makerere University,with exception of mobile app dev,

[@akbg]

Wait, you had a BSc and no formal introduction to algorithms? WAT?

[@benvella1728]

Such a weird academic background 😅

[@Alex-bq3kp]

Rightttt, I just completed my algo course Fall semester 3rd year

[@onassis48]

LOOL very true, just realized this

[@akbg]

@@McKayPorter yes, that's the most likely explanation. However, I don't know how it works in US, but in Italy (and the rest of Europe I think) admittance into a MSc might be bound to passing extra exams if your BSc didn't cover enough of certain "knowledge areas", which I think would be the case if your major didn't give you a formal introduction to algorithms and data structures.

[@Bjekan]

@@akbg Yeah, that's why it took him two years after bsc to complete the requirements for msc

[@jesperhustad]

I feel like the grading is so different in USA. Here in Europe almost no one gets A’s.

[@TheamazingBRwrestler]

Best Bang for your buck is Georgia Tech's OMSCS. I pay $1200 per semester to go to a #8 ranked CS school.

[@joeyyeet2970]

im really nervous as a freshman in cs it's really painful forgetting what I learned last sem

[@kaushilkundalia2197]

Cal poly slo is my dream school. Hope I get into ms in CS program as well

[@AnkitKumar-rh8il]

bro , your journey is inspirational❤

[@eyeshezzy]

You are well on your way to becoming a Professor

[@albingreen344]

It seems a master’s degree in the US greatly differs from that of the Swedish counterpart. Mine is like 60% mathematics and spans across 5 years.

[@mzg147]

Isn't that both Bachelor and Master's combined?

[@theguitarist1290]

Programs vary greatly even within the U.S (I'm Canadian, but have looked into this in the past). Though a 5 years Masters seems very excessive tbh, I'd understand if it was a PhD...the typical length of a Masters around here is anywhere within 1-3 years.

[@MarcosJuarezSanchez]

The same here in Mexico. I study telematics engineering and its 5 years long

[@albingreen344]

@@theguitarist1290 You're right. In essence, it's a bachelor's and a master's combined - it's just that the program doesn't grant us a bachelor's degree. We need to finish the whole five years to get a degree, which will then be a master's.

[@FadeStrategy]

@@albingreen344 You get a bachelor after 3 years if u ask for it, I'm assuming you are speaking about a civ.ing comp sci degree?

[@isdianaher]

I´m wil starting with a Computer Science Master in summer and I really feel more excited after to watch this video.

[@victorioushamza]

love the channel bud

[@devinbrady8503]

When he said what school he got his degree from, I thought he was going to say California Pizza Kitchen.

[@vishalkajale5073]

😅 Now i can conclude Computer Engineering in India is harder than getting Masters in us. We have to clear 30 subjects/labs/project in order get degree

[@CommandantNOVA]

Why didn't you go to Amazon for Full Time if you interned there? Was it a good place to work?

[@vlad.the.impaler.]

An internship is way different than a full time offer, don't get it twisted

[@GoodSmile3]

I applied for Computer Science Master studies and even attended the first semester but then realized it's such a waste of time for me for now so I abandoned that. And after watching this video I'm now even more sure that I made the right decision. Even though my average mark in diploma for Bachelor studies is A and liked to study overall, it was just so demotivating to spend so much time on stupid low-level assignments.

[@matthewfeatherston8982]

Mobile App was my favorite ❤ undergrad class too

[@damianrudling7663]

Is it seriously that easy to get A's in the USA?

[@luisriba8082]

Well at the graduate level A's don't mean much other than it mean that you just pass a class. I wasn't super excited or anything because at the graduate level they either give an A or B, but what made it intensive is that you have complete all the work because every point counts. I felt that in grads school there is more flexibility, more freedom and more understanding about you as person and student. The thing I hate about grads school was writing papers and give citations.

[@jakepyrett1715]

'C'is the same as failing

[@josemaria_landa]

@@jakepyrett1715 I'm a math student and A's aren't that common :(

[@mmaranta785]

It’s much easier now than 30 years ago. They call it grade inflation. Also the colleges are businesses and the student is the customer. They don’t want you to drop out.

[@mmaranta785]

@@jackokeefe9346 Iwent to college in the 80’s and my GPA was 2.92. I’ve taken about 15 classes since 2014 and now my GPA is 3.88, Did I get smarter?

[@TheGrimravager]

3:52, yeah I've been there, it was horrible lol

[@MythicaRealm]

I must say, I really enjoyed watching this, so I had to like and subscribe. Starting an MSc Computing program in the UK this September. Wanted to know what it's like cos I'm from a non-computing background (BSc Geography).

[@revaprasetya]

You seems to really enjoy it. Good thing to know

[@nonyafletcher601]

Also would you mind sharing your study technique for managing working full time and school? I have trouble retaining information whilst managing both.

[@dhanshreehood26]

I REALLY NEEDED THIS KINDA VIDEO YOU KNOW...

[@anuragpthk]

I also wish to perform and learn the best (getting my bachelor's degrees from last year)

[@greenleaph5145]

What did you do for a living full time during your time in grad school?

[@d.b2370]

I am studying bachelors in engineering and most of these look like undergraduate courses and I even took some of them plus some of them were even more detailed o.0 No offence but I wouldnt flex such an easy degree.

[@JordonDev]

San louis Obispo is such a nice area, I like it just a short drive out

[@michealhuver3043]

I have scowered the internet for your full name, but I get nothing beyond Sam R. I wanted to know what company you currently work for. I love your content, and your history is very similar to mine

[@michaeljoefish8115]

Hey, what coding languages did you know before you went to college?

[@paulistastars]

2 things I wished my colege in EU had, Futbal(not calling it soccer) and the hacling class you had on spring. But was a Electrotechnik Eng not a Computer Science Degree.

[@engineermyworld]

Master's aint no joke. Sweet gig!

[@udaybhaskar8439]

I have AI and Network security in my upcoming semester and btw great video sam 👍

[@MassHypnosis805]

How rigorous were the classes in the quarter system? I did my undergrad at UCLA and my experience was not good. The classes were hard and 10 weeks just isn't enough time to understand everything they required. Im afraid of doing another quarter system school. You made it sound easy, so maybe it's a lot better? I do realize that UCLA CS undergrad is not a very good department in general.

[@softwaredevelopment4704]

Heyy, woul you say its possilble to complete the masters in 2 years while working on a full time job?

[@konstantinadnxth755]

oohhh I haven't heard of prolog in a while...

[@akshaydalvi5966]

Was always confused whether to opt for IT or CS

[@billcooper8625]

Dude. Similar route... undergrad in biz and an MSE in SW Engineering.

[@MiraPandora]

I Have a question, was your masters online? I have a BA in biology from Sac State but seeking a masters in computer science, does cal poly offers an online form of that masters?

[@masui91]

Who you took CPE 349? Did you take AI with Kerfuss? Who you took networks?

[@yassine5481]

When you say year 1 is it like freshman year of college or what ??

[@isittrueisitnot3303]

Do you see the title? When he says year 1, he obviously means the first year of masters.

[@whupwhup2455]

where did you take the rankings from?

[@e.s298]

Hi , I am electric engineer and I have started my master program in computer science this semester. But I just know some programming languages beginner level . But I don’t know how to find job or internship Without any experiences? Do you have any succession??

[@shihabisa7108]

This guy is just flexing his marks.

[@leonardoaguilar9429]

The two years that you took courses where did you take the courses?

[@ammadkhan9869]

Kindly explain the process through which you switched from non technical to technical degree. Which courses were pre requisite? Where did you take them.

[@NinjaGaming761]

my first cs course the teacher was bad in my opinion as we never rxactly went over what he had us do. so far my second course is doing much better and i actually feel like i know what I'm doing.

[@JS-jh4cy]

My issue is I am a textbook person who is a slower learner who likes to see other aspects of the main topic. Are their a list of recommended books for self study, everything I seen seems to be very dated in books

[@OptimalShot]

NSA can decrypt all our traffic how? was this a joke? if not anyome have any more info on this?

[@bullsfan9162]

How hard would you say graduate school in cs is for someone who has no experience with it? I was accepted into a masters program but I am a little intimidated because I haven’t taken any type of cs courses before.

[@kcdiazWTV]

How much did it cost you to complete your Masters?

[@demonman1234]

Kinda funny I'm 16 and I know at least a little about a lot of the things he's mentioned, as in the sql injection, wifi pineapple, ddos/dos attacks, etc... the main difference though is everything I know I've learned by myself, therefore there's massive gaps in my knowledge. Everything he's learned has been in a set course, therefore there's less gaps, but no course will get everything there possibly is to know about that subject.

[@programmingpersistence5716]

what is sql injection?

[@JS-jh4cy]

Is the n queen problem a puzzle you have to solve in code with a chosen algorithm?

[@JS-jh4cy]

Meaning it a programming exercise not a management issue?

[@nataliegrayhandle]

I heard oregon state university was considered top level

[@pranavyeleti3499]

At what age did u graduate

[@absmshakil8575]

Bro, I am a mern developer. Which MSc course is best/easier for me???

[@jayfloramusic]

Hey I also have a Masters from Cal Poly SLO. It's in Electrical Engineering.

[@matthewwallace9686]

What do you think of it? Did you do the 4+1 or apply externally?

[@leoMC4384]

Is it me or you look like a young Jon Hamm??? 😁

[@leonardoaguilar9429]

Where did you take your prerequisite courses?

[@ansonpoon912]

Looking to complete the prerequisites for the Master since I graduated from a non-cs degree too. Where in CA did you take those classes? Did you take it online or in some college?

[@KeepOnCoding]

Cal State East Bay

[@ylevanon1]

I just transfered out of CS at Cal Poly SLO 😬😬😬

[@azizagasi1633]

Hi, I am in desperate need of help. I am currently a 3rd year mechanical engineering student and want to do MS in comp. As you mentioned in your video that you took courses to do the same I was confused as to what it meant and how can I do those courses as well?

[@collins4359]

Nice one

[@Tracing0029]

You actually had a pretty easy time. At my uni we had a lot more and advanced classes

[@calebrubalema]

Does Theory of computation.. contain DFAs, NFAs?

[@KeepOnCoding]

Yes.

[@calebrubalema]

@@KeepOnCodingI failed to see it's application at the time.. so for my case I didn't like it so much 😃. Good for you though 🤗

[@anshmamgain2007]

Ohh god now I am on a $350,00 debt , AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!

[@ninehoursful]

How old are you now?

[@brunospasta]

"If you graduate from this college you will be industry ready", said no one ever.

[@alexfoderaro3191]

beyond the experience etc... i saw that the global ranking is very low (1207)... i am finishing high school in Italy next year, and my dream is to come and study in America. But I don't know whether to choose Canada or US. In US schools are really over priced and in Canada as resulted from my researches you can get into a high quality school ranked in the top 100 for a lot lower... so anyone reading this can help me with advices and computer science schools for an undergraduate? thanks!

[@asmmeto55]

I guess my university (software engineering B.Sc) is the only one that does NOT teach anything real-life related. I thought I was not alone when it comes to it but maybe I am :P

[@cflo530]

Zot Zot Zot!

[@ducbaophan4078]

Do you usually have headache when coding