Best products from r/gatech
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1. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)
- Dover Publications
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4. Introduction to the Theory of Computation
- Used Book in Good Condition
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5. Operating System Concepts
- New
- Mint Condition
- Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon
- Guaranteed packaging
- No quibbles returns
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8. Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus CE Color Graphing Calculator, Black
- High-resolution, full-color backlit display
- Rechargeable battery
- Preloaded apps and images.Fourteen interactive zoom features
- MathPrint feature.Seven different graph styles for differentiating the look of each graph drawn
- Available in a variety of fun colors, Customers may receive python version while supplies last.
- "Packaging may vary"
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9. PJRC Teensy 3.2
- 32 bit ARM Cortex-M4 72 MHz CPU (M4 = DSP extensions) 256K Flash Memory, 64K RAM, 2K EEPROM
- 21 High Resolution Analog Inputs (13 bits usable, 16 bit hardware) 34 Digital I/O Pins (5V tolerance on Digital Inputs) 12 PWM outputs
- 7 Timers for intervals/delays, separate from PWM USB with dedicated DMA memory transfers
- 3 UARTs (serial ports) SPI, I2C, I2S,CAN Bus, IR modulator I2S (for high quality audio interface)
- The Teensy 3.2 adds a more powerful 3.3 volt regulator, with the ability to directly power an ESP8266 Wifi, WIZ820io Ethernet, and other 3.3V add-on boards that require a little more power
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10. TP-Link 2.4GHz 24dBi Directional Grid Parabolic Antenna, N Female Connector, Weather Resistant (TL-ANT2424B)
- 24dBi directional operation, ideal for extraordinary long-distance outdoor directional connection
- Weather proof design, suitable for all weather conditions
- N Female connector, applicable in most outdoor solutions
- Provides easy installation mounting kit
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11. TP-Link 2.4GHz 9dBi Directional Antenna,802.11n/b/g, RP-SMA Male connector, 1m/3ft cable (TL-ANT2409A),White
- 9dBi directional operation provides extended point to point connection or indoor and outdoor area coverage
- Features 100cm(39.4 in) CFD-200 low loss cable for flexible deployment
- RP-SMA Male connector, works with most of access points/wireless routers
- Provides easy installation mounting kits
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12. Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython
- O'Reilly Media
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13. Coleman Dunnock Cold Weather Adult Sleeping Bag
Adult sleeping bag for camping in cold temperatures as low as 20 degrees FCan accommodate most people for heights up to 6 feet 4 inch tallFiberlock construction, cotton cover, soft cotton flannel liner, and Thermolock draft tube for warmth and heat retentionZipPlow system plows away fabric to preven...
14. Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, 15.6" Full HD IPS, Intel i7 CPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, GeForce GTX 1060-6GB, VR Ready, Red Backlit KB, Metal Chassis, Windows 10 64-bit, G3-571-77QK
- Latest 7th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor 2.8GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.8GHz | Windows 10 Home 64-bit
- Latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with 6 GB of dedicated GDDR5 VRAM
- 15.6" Full HD (1920 x 1080) widescreen IPS display, Red Backlit Keyboard
- 16GB DDR4 DRAM Memory & 256GB SSD | Extra empty expandable hard drive slot for 2.5" hard drives
- Up to 7-hours of battery life
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15. COCOCKA LCD Touch Screen Digitizer Frame Assembly Full Set LCD Touch Screen Replacement for iPhone 6(4.7inch) (Black)
Compatible with: iPhone 6 4.7" ,NOT iPhone 6 Plus 5.5"Each item was double tested before shipping and working perfectlyRepair/Replacing old, broken, cracked, damaged faulty LCD Display with touch ScreenThe LCD is without home button,ear piece and front camera,just same as the picturesBonus:Fast Ship...
18. Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
W W Norton Company
So, when I was younger, I did attend one computer science related camp,
https://www.idtech.com
They have a location at Emory (which I believe I did one year) that was ok (not nearly as "nerdy"), and one at Boston which I really enjoyed (perhaps because I had to sleep on site). That being said, the stuff I learned there was more in the areas of graphic design and/or system administration, and not computer science. They are also quite expensive for only 1-2 weeks of exposure.
I felt it was a good opportunity to meet some very smart kids though, and it definitely lead me to push myself. Knowing and talking to people that are purely interested in CS, and are your age, is quite rare in high school. I think that kind of perspective can make your interests and hobbies seem more normal and set a much higher bar for what you expect for yourself.
On the other side of things, I believe that one of the biggest skills in any college program is an openness to just figure something out yourself if it interests you, without someone sitting there with you. This can be very helpful in life in general, and I think was one of the biggest skills I was missing in high school. I remember tackling some tricky stuff when I was younger, but I definitely passed over stuff I was interested in just because I figured "thats for someone with a college degree". The fact is that experience will make certain tasks easier but you CAN learn anything you want. You just may have to learn more of the fundamentals behind it than someone with more experience.
With that in mind, I would personally suggest a couple of things which I think would be really useful to someone his age, give him a massive leg up over the average freshman when he does get to college, and be a lot more productive than a summer camp.
One would be to pick a code-golf site (I like http://www.codewars.com) and simply try to work through the challenges. Another, much more math heavy, option is https://projecteuler.net. This, IMO is one of the best ways to learn a language, and I will often go there to get familiar with the syntax of a new language. I think he should pick Python and Clojure (or Haskell) and do challenges in both. Python is Object Oriented, whilst Clojure (or Haskell) is Functional. These are two very fundamental and interesting "schools of thought" and if he can wrap his head around both at this age, that would be very valuable.
A second option, and how I really got into programming, is to do some sort of web application development. This is pretty light on the CS side of things, but it allows you to be creative and manage more complex projects. He could pick a web framework in Python (flask), Ruby (rails), or NodeJS. There are numerous tutorials on getting started with this stuff. For Flask: http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world. For Rails: https://www.railstutorial.org. This type of project could take a while, there are a lot of technologies which interact to make a web application, but the ability to be creative when designing the web pages can be a lot of fun.
A third, more systems level, option (which is probably a bit more opinionated on my part) is that he learn to use Linux. I would suggest that he install VirtualBox on his computer, https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. He can then install Linux in a virtual machine without messing up the existing OS (also works with Mac). He COULD install Ubuntu, but this is extremely easy and doesn't really teach much about the inner workings. I think he could install Arch. https://wiki.archlinux.org. This is a much more involved distribution to install, but their documentation is notoriously good, and it exposes you to a lot of command line (Ubuntu attempts to be almost exclusively graphical). From here, he should just try to use it as much as possible for his daily computing. He can learn general system management and Bash scripting. There should be tutorials for how to do just about anything he may want. Some more advanced stuff would be to configure a desktop environment, he could install Gnome by default, it is pretty easy, but a lot of people really get into this with more configurable ones ( https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn ). He could also learn to code and compile in C.
Fourth, if he likes C, he may like seeing some of the ways in which programs which are poorly written can be broken. A really fun "game" is https://io.smashthestack.org. He can log into a server and basically "hack" his way to different levels. This can also really expose you to how Linux maintains security (user permissions, etc. ). I think this would be much more involved approach, but if he is really curious about this stuff, I think this could be the way to go. In this similar vein, he could watch talks from Defcon and Chaos Computer Club. They both have a lot of interesting stuff on youtube (it can get a little racy though).
Finally, there are textbooks. These can be really long, and kinda boring. But I think they are much more approachable than one might think. These will expose you much more to the "Science" part of computer science. A large portions of the classes he will take in college look into this sort of stuff. Additionally, if he covers some of this stuff, he could look into messing around with AI (Neural Networks, etc.) and Machine Learning (I would check out Scikit-learn for Python). Here I will list different broad topics, and some of the really good books in each. (Almost all can be found for free.......)
General CS:
Algorithms and Data Structures: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms
Theory of Computation: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Michael-Sipser/dp/113318779X
Operating Systems: http://www.amazon.com/Operating-System-Concepts-Abraham-Silberschatz/dp/0470128720
Some Math:
Linear Algebra: http://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/
Probability and Stats: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-05-introduction-to-probability-and-statistics-spring-2014/readings/
I hope that stuff helps, I know you were asking about camps, and I think the one I suggested would be good, but this is stuff that he can do year round. Also, he should keep his GPA up and destroy the ACT.
I don't see any concrete advice, so I'll advise of what I did to prepare. I started 4 months away from my test date because I was still a full time student the whole time preparing. Got a 159/167/5.0 and was pretty stoked with my verbal score. I started out in the low 140s/high 130s (words r hard) and had to work a lot to bring that up. For math, I just ran through two practice tests in the beginning and that was enough to brush up on the math stuff (the only things I forgot were statistics related).
Materials
Process
Writing: For this, I don't have much of a way of recommending how you prep. I have never been too great at writing itself, but you can learn a great deal from going through the book and googling extra essay prompts to organize your ideas. Organizing your ideas in an outline is imperative. Beyond that, the writing center at Tech might be worthwhile if you score below a 4.0 on your first test (it also depends what you're going to grad school for: I went into the medical field so writing is somewhat important, if you're going into engineering, you could pretty much get by with a 3.5 so long as the other scores are decent). Just work on organizing a good argument with brief but concrete examples. Read tons of example essays to figure out how to formulate your ideas.
Verbal: This is what I sucked at. My vocabulary has always been horrifically bad, and I got by forever with saying "I'm an engineer, I don't need this shit!" The Kaplan book has good lists in the back. I made flash cards for the most used words as well as word roots to figure out words on the fly. Go through the appendix and write down all you don't know, start with that.
Next, everytime you take a practice test, write down all of the words you didn't know on paper while you're taking the test, and make flash cards of those. I had a good 5-600 of word roots and words by the time I got done with a dozen practice tests and with how stupid the Kaplan book made me feel. Vocabulary is what got me the most, and is important for both the multiple choice as well as the reading comp. If you suck at reading comp. even after learning vocab, ask someone at the Writing Center for help. Reading/writing were never enough of a problem for me to seek out extra help, but I still wasn't great at them.
Math: Just run through practice tests. Write down any formulas you forget from math. If you're struggling with this, idk how to help because I can't explain math. You should be fine coming from Tech. I made like 50 flash cards of formulas to run through the week before the test (things like permutations vs combinations always tripped me up in the way they were worded).
TL;DR
Practice. A lot. If your grad school of choice is competitive or your GPA isn't the greatest, you should treat this like a class in itself over the next few months. It helps if you can budget the extra $200 to just take it now to get a feel for it and get a score to see where you need to improve. You must wear headphones and they give you a full pat down each time you go in and out of the computer room. The guy running my session was upwards of late 70s, and he stood behind me during half of the test.
You might find Seitzman's lecture notes to be helpful.
http://seitzman.gatech.edu/classes/ae3450/
http://seitzman.gatech.edu/classes/ae3450/outline.html
When I took 3450, we used the blue and orange book (probably the one Jagoda is pulling questions from). It's actually selected sections from two separate books compiled specifically for that course. I thought the second half about gas dynamics was pretty good, so you might want to look for that as well.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131206680
If it's any consolation, the gas dynamics portion of the class isn't hard so much as incredibly tedious. Just a couple monster equations and the rest is just ratios. Figure out which ratios you need and how to manipulate them and you'll be good to go.
Aside from that, study and pray to the curve. Good luck!
Sorry that other people are being harsh critics, but yeah man. Respectfully, a couple of these are pretty overpriced.
Thing is, most people would rather buy a new book from the store than buy a used book for barely less than retail. I suggest you lower the prices, especially keeping this in mind:
Astrodynamics sells new for $17: https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Dover-Aeronautical-Engineering/dp/0486600610
Propulsion sells new for $25: https://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Thermodynamics-Propulsion-Philip-Peterson/dp/8131729516/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526807320&sr=1-2&keywords=mechanics+and+thermodynamics+of+propulsion+2nd+edition
Your edition of COE 3001 sells new for $113: https://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Materials-James-M-Gere/dp/1111577730/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526807508&sr=1-2&keywords=mechanics+of+materials+goodno and it's also not the current edition
Best of luck. And if you find someone looking specifically for the current edition of the Mechanics of Materials book, please send them my way!
https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI-84-Graphing-Calculator/dp/B00TFYYWQA
This 'next gen' Ti-84 got me through my AE degree completely fine and I never found myself needing anything more powerful or capable for the entire curriculum. The build quality is excellent, it's rechargeable, durable, and it's very lightweight. I have no concerns sticking it in an outer pocket in my bag since it's not fragile. Plus not having to worry about batteries is great and this is faster than a standard Ti-84, not to mention the color display.
Overall I think this would make an excellent gift for your son.
edit: it also comes in red which is what I got.
Hey there everyone! Sorry for the late followup. I've been unpacking from graduation and the like... Also, as a neat update to my earlier post, I was just contacted by the College Football Hall of Fame to display my cap in the Hall for a few weeks. Neat!
Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures during the build process, but here's my general construction setup.
Supplies needed:
(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SSY1AJU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
(https://www.adafruit.com/product/1902)
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General Information
Picture of the Grad Cap During Graduation
Link to Source Video
Arduino Source Code
I would be surprised if that device worked.
What you need is a directional antenna. Ideally, something you can put in your roof or outside your window. Something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-ANT2409A-Directional-Antenna-connector/dp/B003CFATNS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1407434530&sr=8-2
A larger antenna with a bunch of gain will work really well, if you can find a place to mount it:
http://www.amazon.com/TL-ANT2424B-Directional-Parabolic-connector-resistant/dp/B003CFATOW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1407434530&sr=8-3
I actually had two antennas similar to those set up at Tenside, and I got GT WiFi for about 2 years. Never had to pay for my own internet. (This wasn't stealing, I was paying my technology fees...)
Anyways, you can hook that antenna up to USB adapter (like the Alfa one linked below), or into another wifi access point and rebroadcast your own network.
I was ISYE so I'm not sure how much you are allowed to cross over being CS but I would absolutely recommend taking a regression course. ISYE also has some data analysis electives, but to me learning and mastering regression is a must.
BBUUTT my biggest recommendation is to start playing with data yourself. I am a "Data Scientist" and graduated from the MS Analytics program at Tech and still to this day I learn the most just from playing around with data sets and trying new techniques or learning new coding tools. Don't wait to take classes to jump in, just go.
Here are some great books to get started doing "data science" in R and Python.
R: Introduction to Statistical Learning (free!!)
Python: Python for Data Analysis
If you have access to your parents still, see if they have a bunch of old comforters.
When family used to visit my house the kids/teens were kicked out of the rooms, which were given to our aunts/uncles. We used to just grab sleeping bags and stack 2-3 thick comforters on top of them. Super comfy, though I'll admit I like a firmer mattress.
I can't stand air mattresses.
You could use something like this as a base:
http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Dunnock-Large-Cold-Weather-Sleeping/dp/B00363PSKK/ref=sr_1_28?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1411966034&sr=1-28&keywords=sleeping+bag
I'm an incoming freshman as well, and this is what I got. It seems pretty solid for the price. Whatever you get, I'd recommend getting a laptop with a SSD and a 7000 series quad-core i5 or i7. As long as it has 8GB of RAM you should be fine, and look for ones with dedicated graphics cards if you want to game. You should also make sure it has a decent battery life.
Cheapest is just to fix it yourself, its pretty easy on the newer iPhones. None of the cheapie Amazon and eBay screens come close to the display and glass quality of the original. iFixit.com has the best how tos and sell OEM quality screens if you want to pay for it. I usually charge $80 to do a replacement with a cheap screen.
https://amazon.com/gp/product/B01EFG8AHO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Here
Ubuntu is recommended, but you can use some other distro. However all of the support I'm doing is only for Ubuntu based distros. Some others have done things to get it working for other distros like Arch.
And here is the book
And as a bonus [here](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6g7zcZaFwPTVVI1eDBYcG1GbE0
) is a presentation I did last semester which includes an overview and some sample programs.
edit fixed 3rd link.
Read anything by Ferrol Sams.
The Cormoran Strike series (by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling) is phenomenal.
Beneath a Scarlet Sky is very good, and the Monuments Men and Saving Italy are really good, too. All three are based on the true stories of people during WWII (and Monuments Men is far, FAR better than the movie).
If you like historical fiction, you can't do better than James Michener (my favorites are The Source, Texas, and Caribbean), Leon Uris (read The Trinity series... slog to get started, but worth it), and Edward Rutherford (just read them all).