Comments by "Juzu Juzu" (@juzujuzu4555) on "University Advice I Wish I Knew Years Ago" video.

  1. My simple advice. Study math, logic, linear algebra, abstract algebra, even topology, set theory, etc. as those things will open your mind and eventually be worth it. You are not going to learn those things on your own most likely, but after having enough mathematical background, you can learn most aspects of computer science yourself if you are interested enough. I would highly encourage to learn theoretical background, avoid practical courses that you can learn easily yourself later, and most of the practical stuff will change anyway in really short periods of time. Just think about how programming has changed, how languages and frameworks have evolved. University makes sense for the hard theoretical base, it's better to go as deep as possible in those. But also it's important to not burn yourself, so take the practical courses if you need to have a breather. I would say that learning math and statistics is important as hell no matter what your area is. Everyone should learn linear and abstract algebra, and logic. It might not seem like that when you are in the school, but later you'll certainly value all that. These and some other math courses open up your brains, it's completely different thing than anything math related before.
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  2.  @Buddharta  True, assembly is worth it as it changes how you see programming in the higher level languages. It makes you better at software architectures, better at creating code that gets well optimized, and then it helps when you need to insert assembly in your code. Many software needs some hand optimized AVX in the inner loops. I would assume those who know this will be paid well. And assembly will help with debugging.
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