All, I currently have 3.5 years of professional experience and am going to start my masters part time. My bachelor is in CS and I am bit undecided when it comes to my masters. The roles in my current position is that of a leader in both technical and business areas. My question is, has anyone completed or know of a masters that mixes i...
Does anyone know of any good resources that will help me get started with understanding SIF and how to integrate it into a web-based application? Thanks! ...
So I'm teaching a 2nd semester freshman level C++ course at a university in an upcoming semester. The students have used arrays (though only statically allocated) and have some notion of references and pointers (but probably not much). In general, they have not done a whole lot of dealing with dynamic memory allocation and management. I...
I've been going through textbook Introduction to Algorithms, and it's pretty much one of the best I've read. However, I'm at the point where it's not a big challenge. It's definitely far above trivial, but there seems to be a difficulty gap (even though it's more advanced that most undergrad tailored texts) between it and books like Conc...
I have been an interactive project manager for about 7 years now and considering going back to my first passion which was HTML. As a producer I am up to date on how technology has progressed in the 7 years I have been away from TextEdit but my development expertise in now pretty much gone. What should I do to make the move back? Does t...
The known Python-Challenge is quite difficult. Is there a much easier alternative for training my programming skills? ...
We have a couple senior (i.e. older) developers on our team that have no interest in improving. They write solid code, but they don't want to add unit tests or improve their efficiency. They are old-school C programmers using .NET, but everything they write is purely procedural. When confronted about their development speed (most code...
Back in 2000 I made an educational website in which we had hour-long audio files of lectures on a RealAudio server, then I generated hundreds of little SMIL .ra files e.g. lecture002part053.ra: ... <audio src="lecture002.wav" clip-begin="554s" clip-end="612s" /> ... then in the HTML I had links like this: <a href="http://nnnnn.e...
Hey, I'm a student reaching a critical point - I've got to start looking for a job. The thing I'm most passionate about is applied cryptographic protocols and I've somewhat centered my education around learning as much as possible in this area. As a fresh grad I don't expect to find many opportunities to work in this field but I still w...
Background: I have been teaching a short course for 12-14 year olds interested in learning how to program video games. We have been using Alice now for 3 years. In this time we have used both Alice and Story Telling Alice. Question: When is the right time to move on from Alice (or Scratch if that is what you prefer) and move the stude...
I've been asked to run an internal training course for a handful of our developers on Test Driven Development. What advice do you have for me, as someone who has never given a training course before? I'd like advice on the delivery of training, as well as your thoughts on what content I should include. Anybody who has been on a similar...
Where is a good starting point for learning the Zend Framework? The introduction from framework.zend.com left me wanting more, and really wasn't enough for me. ...
Do you know of well known acknowledged international enterprise architecture certifications? We are going to educate several architects within our organization. We want the certification to be a personal goal for each consultant and also use it for sales/marketing purposes. I have heard about the TOGAF 9 certification by The Open Group...
I'm currently working as a C++ developer but am looking at expanding my skills with an online course into web development. This is the course I am currently looking into, but I have found very little material on the net reviewing or commenting on the quality/satisfaction with various online courses. So I thought I would ask here and s...
I am working on a departmental website within a big university and want to add different types of functionality for different users depending on their roles. There are 3 main types of users: Publicly listed Alumni (listed but based on different fields and using a custom template file) Others (users on site but not listed) Right now ...
Hello, I'm a student from france, and I'm passionated by building websites. I don't care if it's about interface design, web design or web development, I love them all! Although these domains are very related to each other, the educational world seems to make a huge difference between them so there are no studies having all of them (in ...
hello I am a graduate student now, and hopefully someday I will teach. my interests are C++, Python, embedded languages, and scientific computing. Meanwhile I daydream about how I would teach. I was not quite happy with my undergraduate university as I found many computer science classes lacking. so I would like to ask you, if you w...
I will register as graduate student, and my friend has suggested I attend a speed reading class. (He is MBA student). I don't know whether it is good to attend this course or not, but at this moment almost of my textbook required time to think about its content. Has anyone applied speed reading with technical books? Is it good to atten...
I am going to read the classic "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" link text and it utilizes the Scheme language to teach its material. Does any one have advice about what Scheme would be easy to use (on Windows) and complete? Thanks! ...
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