I am currently attending on online institution that offers two degrees that are somewhat related. I work for a division of this school, and attend for a very small cost, and I don't have a degree so even though its not a great school, it meets my needs. I currently work as a .net web developer. I am at a point where I have to choose bet...
A young relative of mine has decided that she will study for software developers. But she has absolutely no programming experience. I would like to help her with the basics before she starts with the school so that she gets a head start. I need tips on Internet sites where she can learn the basics. What language do you think that she s...
I feel, that part of the question got lost in translation, so here is my longer description of my programming related question: Name one or many (website or blog or vlog or wiki or tweet account or database or ebook or forum or entity of stack exchange or feed or message board) that fill criterion's and at least 1 aspect as described be...
Hi all, I am newbie to cold fusion. I am in plan to create a e-commerce as well as business oriented application using cold fusion as front-end and sql-server as back end. It contains all the functionality including db connectivity, report generation, etc... I found some tutorials, but i like to get a clear vision from SOF professional...
Hi i've been downloading a few softwares for developing C applications, but i find them too big or with many unnecessary functions(for begginers) so, we are currently using TURBOC++ but it is way outdated and we want something new with a nice graphical interface to teach programming in C. thanks forgot to mention, it can be software for...
Certain programmers seem to have issues ever getting past certain concepts. I especially see this academically. Some common stumbling blocks are: Pointers Function Pointers/Delegates Event Models Inheritance Concurrency Functional Programming Lambda Expressions What is it in these people that prevents thier growth? Is this a cognat...
I know PHP and working on it couple of years. It is very easy to learn/switch to C#(or C++). I mean syntax. But I have another problem. I can't really make good programming architecture(classes & methods), especially when doing Visual C#(C++) programming. I have bored by reading/learning basic things about programming languages, In t...
Probably most of the knowledge you use day to day in your job wasn't learned in a class. But, looking back, you must also have learned some things that are actually really valuable to you. What was the most useful CS related thing you learned as part of your formal education? I left University (UBC) because I was taking one whole semest...
All, One of my clients is requesting that all of it's technology vendors have taken a course in "secure coding practices." That's obviously an enormous topic - not something you can master in a short class. However - it's still probably a good idea to learn about some of the more obvious issues and vulnerabilities. So, can anyone rec...
I'm setting up an educational website, and I'm trying to configure a wiki or wiki-like webpage system to work on collaborative writing projects. It should be: Public, i.e. registered and non-registered users can view everything Allow Only Closed Contributions, i.e. only registered users/students can contribute Area for Administrators/T...
I just completed the "Practice test" from the ETS website: http://www.ets.org/gre/subject/about/content/computer_science and I've just noticed that you have to post it off to them to get it marked! Is there any list of answers for this booklet anywhere that I can use to grade myself? ...
I was wondering, is there a some kind of infographic or tutorial out there that describes the various branching of programming education? Let me provide an example: I'd like to create a camera tracking program using, say, Intel IPP and Xcode. This is a pretty advanced project for a beginner, so I'd like to know what I have to know how t...
I have been asked to research teaching a module in game development to beginners (no programming skills) of the age group 18-30, at a secondary school level. The course will run for roughly 8-10 months and each student would probably get 3 hours of teaching time per week. My initial thoughts were to propose using Flash, since the stude...
There seem to be a lot of introductory books, courses and bootcamps for iPhone development, covering the basics of Xcode, Objective C, Foundation, UIControls, UITableViews, etc. What would be the most appropriate course material set for the next more advanced iPhone development class, suitable for and of interest to the widest percent...
What should someone study at university level if he/she wants to get into robotics and build robotics? So far 'Mechatronics' seems to be the field I'm looking for? I looked at a few plain 'robotics' courses but they seem to be only about the electrical and computer work, and don't include any details on building the mechanical components...