Hello!
hey again! are you allowed to win a second time??
How's it going? Nope did you win the ipad round 1
no I think you did! or how do we find out
Oh no, they still haven't emailed about it
ahh I see. I thought the top chatter of each round gets the ipad!
They said they would send out an email and say who won round 1, how the scoring will go for this round, etc.
And the others just get raffled in for the big prize.
I don't think so... it could be that's it, but the FAQ page kind of makes it seem like a raffle
Well I'm pretty sure you won it haha. I'm guessing you wouldn't accounted for at least 10 to 20 percent of all points.
Luckily, there are only 3-4 people taking this super seriously and there are 4 ipads, so we should all get one if the top scorer wins each round hahash All I care about is that Macbook haha
yeah no kidding! I'm literally participating in ever contest on campus.
Mine is a 2014 and about to hit that point where it's going to have lots of problems. what other contests are going on that you know of?
I even submitted an alumni essay...but I wasn't chosen unfortunately
like big ones?
yeah top prize was around 3 grand
woah! That's crazy where did you find out about these other contests?
I really though I had a good shot!! I took it to the writing center and they told me that I'd probably win etc. But I didn't even finish in the peripheral prizes....hmmm All good! It's just some fun to do on the side.
For chit chat, this past spring they gave out a bunch of smaller prizes too in addition to the ipads, so i'm curious if they'll do the same this fall
ahh I didn't know that! Man they have some great funding or budgeting going on that's not cheap have you ever won anything else previously?
They got a quarter million dollar grant for this project
that's huge!! You'd think that google would be way ahead with their technology and everything
nah, just some random giveaways on social media, but not for bYU
my uncle came to visit yesterday and he works for the Google Assistant division at Google
It's more to pay students with to run this study for the next year
he said they were miles away from any other competitor
Oh, they are, but they placed high enough in the competition to get a quarter million dollar stipend from Amazon so Amazon clearly is interested.
yeah that's actually incredible. Did you also hear about BYU winning a video game contest?
There are already lots of other bots out there that do what they're trying to do
BYU churns out some really good teams...even though the major is still a little outdated
Oh we do that like every year our Animation students are like top 3 in the country
they work some crazy hours
There is a class, not sure of the name, but it's CS Developers and Animation students and they build a video game for the national competition each year and it's almost always one of the best ones there.
yeah I've found that there's a huge academic disparity at byu the people who are good are really good especially in the CS program
You'd be suprised at the talent inside of the program.  Once you start taking electives you get to see some really talented people
yeah I can can't wait
Are you going to be watching conference here in 10 minutes?
I just know that I can't compete with the people who live and dream in code so I'm trying to find a different avenue to compete in
well that's what you need to start doing!
yeah I am!
just work on some passion projects on the side outside of class Check out Udemy.com and see what free courses they have.
yeah so hopefully the pine script, and I'm going to learn front end web through linux club
Or learn to write a simple app using swift in Xcode
yeah!! awesome videos there I took a iOS one loved it
Build a solid portfolio website stuff like that helps get you more involved and keep up with the other students
hmm what would that look like? I haven't seen too many from programmers
I like using hackerRank to practice and train
are we talking a Github profile
Nope, a portfolio that highlights your resume, projects, contact info, etc. I would tell you to check out mine for reference but no names!
can you give me an example? Like a personal website?
just search, computer science porfolio examples click on any of the links and check it out
okay wow everything you say is gold to me man really appreciate it
haha, yeah you should ask upperclassmen in your program questions whenever possible, because they've been in your shoes and will tell you lots of things they wished they knew as an underclassman
I've been bombing them hard with questions, but everyone has a different answer so it's been a little confusing there are a lot who are just working to get through their credits
yeah, have you talked to the department counselors?
I didn't know there were any! I've tried to talk to professors during their office hours though
I go in like once a semester and speak with them about what to do next to get to where I want to go and find that helpful
are they just in the CS lab? that's epic
no, you have to go to the CS department website and schedule an appointment they're located under the eyring center because our department is actually a part of the math department although.... I think they may have officially split and put our counselors in the talmage.  Not really sure You'd have to look into it. but yeah, just check out cs.byu.edu should have info there.
okay wow that is super helpful thanks so much man! well conference is starting soon, so I'll be watching that! I'll see you again probably :D