Diving into discrete mathematics — Contrary to popular belief, computer science is not all about raw code. In my first year of computer science, I was surprised to see that my university required many “non-CS courses,” including calculus, linear algebra, and most interestingly, a class on logic and discrete mathematics. I had always known that…

an intuitive approach to solving coding problems — In this article, I will explain the basics ideas on solving coding questions that use the sliding window technique. As a prerequisite, one should feel comfortable working with arrays, arraylists, and fundamental concepts such as looping and if-else statements. …

One of the most used programming languages in the world — Perhaps one of the most widely used and respected programming languages in the world is Java. It has a wide range of uses, including web, artificial intelligence, and database applications. Not only that, it is flexible as an object-oriented language that can be used on many different platforms such as…

An introduction to two very important concepts — One of the most interesting topics from computer science that I have learned after completing my first year of college was recursion. In my introductory Java class, we had covered basic syntax and operations, but recursion always caught my eye. See, it was the first topic that effectively challenged me…

A valuable experience — Over the last few months, I have been exposed to an introduction in linear algebra, teaching myself the basics. It was for a project for my math class at school, which culminated in me giving my classmates an in-person lecture. Since linear algebra was a completely new topic to me…

The final part — As my presentation has been concluded, I’d like to give a few remarks about my experiences, as well as go over the final topic in my journey diving into linear algebra. I have to say, I enjoyed learning about this new branch of mathematics, especially knowing that it has uses…

Delving deeper into row operations — In part 1, I explored how matrices can be used to solve systems of linear equations. I talked about row operations, matrices, REF and RREF form, and other key concepts that can help us solve systems of equations using linear algebra. However, I didn’t actually hit on the mechanics of…

How areas are changed — At this point, I have covered most of the topics that I want to go over in my presentation. This section will be a short, sweet overview of a fun topic that will be useful for a longer, more challenging article. We’ll be covering the determinant. Determinant Imagination A determinant is simply…

New March 29th Presentation Date — In this part of my linear algebra series, I’ll be going over what a linear transformation is, and how it applies to matrices and matrix multiplication. I found this part of linear algebra to be very visual, a perspective of math that I’ve been trying to adopt recently. I had…