Improving math and computer skills

[BortimusPrime]

For math/science/engineering I'd just grab a used textbook that has some of the answers in the back and work through it. College textbooks become worthless once the edition changes (they just mix up the questions, and then the book is useless when the prof. assigns questions from the book for homework, college being the extractive industry it is...), so you can pick one up for a couple bucks off half.com.

For programming I'd say just look for online tutorials in the language you want to learn, and once you get the basics just try to code projects on your own, using online references when you don't know how to do something.

 

[NuMbEr7]

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[Andreas]

I don't like the way i'm being taught maths in school. They make us learn how to integrate and differentiate equations without knowing why the values lose/gain powers or what exactly is the relationship between "ln" and "e". They just tell us that one is thr opposite of the other. It doesn't help you get the bigger picture.

Most problematic was algebra. They don't tell us why some values can be canceled and some not. Or why you can cross multiply values in an equation. Or why you equate values with "0" to find minimum maximum values with calculous. It's hard for me to grab the bigger picture.....

 

[velkrum]

Just saw this, check out www.lynda.com . It's not a free option but it has MS Office and AutoCad on it.. I'm pretty sure you will find it free some where

Lynda.com is a PHENOMENAL TOOL i've used it for the last 2 years and it is worth its gold in education !

 

[Andreas]

Check this out. Call this guy Beta or whatever but his site is awesome

 

[UgSlayer]

wolfram is great for calc integration solutions