Welcome to the first post of "Decoding the buzzwords as a freshman" series. Starting as a freshman majoring in computer science can be very intimidating in the current scenario as the talk of the town (LinkedIn especially) are computer science jargons like Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data science, IoT, machine learning, bitcoin, computer vision, reinforcement learning, Sentiment Analysis etc. The worst part is we are expected to know what these terms mean when we actually shouldn't be. Nontheless, an insight into what these topics entail can make lives easier as undergrads learning physics, chemistry and mathematics when all that the world seems to be telling us is to learn coding. (which ofcourse is essential) An understanding of the prerequisites of the hot selling skills in the market will help us find meaning in what we study in the first two years of college. Hence, this series is to vaguely enlighten you and instigate an interest in you for these "cool...
Feel free to walk through my head