Idk about that, I haven’t seen any major rhetoric of people calling it racist, but I could be wrong.
Anyway probably gonna be a no from me too and I’m young.
It’s not unthinkable that this could be the case either officially or maybe unofficially. Affirmative action based on race has been said to exist in other western countries such as America where right now there’s two cases in the Supreme Court, students of fair commission v Harvard & North...
Well there are other pathways. One of my friends dropped out in year 11 to become a chef, realised it isn’t what he wanted to do. Did a 1 year course at tafe in IT and now he’s studying a 4 year IT and Business degree in UTS, and he didn’t even get an ATAR obviously.
No. Software engi does all the same core courses as CS, however it forces you to do extra SE courses that focus on the development of good software and what not.
All ftp does is ceate an open 'door' for other clients to connect to and recieve data from. This is done through the link that it generates. Just turn the ftp off and this 'door' will close.
I recommend getting windows with at least 8gb ram, though 16 is preferred if you’re going to be majoring in Cybersecurity for compsci. You will find running virtual machines to be quite useful and this will be a hassle if you do not have a decent amount of ram.