Hey StackOverflow-ers, I'm a student in software engineering in Montreal. For the last 3 years I've had a few interships (once per year). The first two (in the same company) were mostly sysadmin jobs, but I did get to do a few Perl programs (mostly log file analysing and statistics generation). My other intership was in the IT security...
What is the difference between Object-Oriented Modeling and Object-Oriented Programming? I overheard a conversation on my subway train this morning and it seems that these things are different. Aren't they? ...
Software engineering shares many of the same traits with other engineering disciplines (attention to detail, complexity to mastery). What do you think differentiates it? Please be specific and substantiate your answer. ...
We're building tools to mine information from the web. We have several pieces, such as Crawl data from the web Extract information based on templates & business rules Parse results into database Apply normalization & filtering rules Etc, etc. The problem is troubleshooting issues & having a good "high-level picture" of what's happen...
I'm about to pick one of these programmes. I've done prerequirements for both and really enjoyed them. By software engineering I mean designing, coding, testing, managing and all related stuff. Getting more advanced in what most undergraduates do. Databases narrow to relational databases, data mining, data warehousing, queries optimiz...
Whats the difference between Computer Engineering and Computer Science? (in terms of majors for college - specifically Carnegie Mellon University) So according to the first answer, computer programming mainly resides in computer science? ...
I am wondering how do people develop programs in a software company? Like do they split up the work or does one person do everything. and how does it all work together? Hope you understand what I am talking about ...
I have a development process question. Background: I work for a modest sized website where, historically, the designers created mockups/screenshots of what they wanted pages and components to look like, and the engineering team (myself included) turned them into html/css. This works relatively well from a code cleanliness perspective, ...
What are the top languages every electronic engineer should know? ...
Hi all, This is in follow-up to a previous question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/189321/whats-important-for-a-computer-science-masters-program-application I've been lucky in that I've been admitted to two programs I really like, but now I'm stuck in deciding between them as I don't know what's better for me in the long-term. I'...
Does anyone have any recommendations for software to assist with the management of test cases - those created and maintained by quality engineers, not a part of the developers work? ...
I am a new Graduate with a CS degree and I have a big interest in Software Engineering(Not programming but Project Management). My CS curriculum only consisted of one SE class and I feel a bit unprepared compared to those who had pure SE degree's. I am asking for some tips on what I can do to even the playing field over the summer(befo...
This may or may not be a grey area subject, though my intentions are certainly not, so my intention is not to stir up an ethical debate on the topic of reverse engineering. I'm a type 1 diabetic currently undergoing pump therapy. I'm an OmniPod user, it's a disposable pod that adheres to my body and dispenses insulin for 3 days. It'...
Recently discovering that the xbox 360 drive can be flashed to do 'questionable' things. What I was interested in is the people that discover these things. How to they go about it? ...
How do you define a software component and what kind of relationship is there between OOP and component programming? What are the pros and conns and what is the "golden ratio" of these paradigms? ...
Hi, I'm looking for full lists of courses' books titles in every semester in different CS/CEN universities. Does anyone know where I can find that? Thanks. ...
My bachelors unfortunately was not a hard CS but rather CIS (I was trying to graduate early and I did but I wish I just finished up the CS). Anyways, I've been in a cool tech company for about 1.5 years doing something close to development (for the sake of privacy I won't mention my position). I was now accepted into a MSCE program and w...
I recently graduated from an ABET-certified Software Engineering program. Most of my classes overlapped with the Computer & Electrical Engineering programs. Despite this, I frequently receive flack that Software Engineering isn't a real "engineering" degree. I feel that this prevalent stigma is also affecting my career. To combat this s...
Do you think a tester should be a great programmer, or someone who just knows how to use computer, with no programming experience required? ...
I'm thinking of starting a website (Not static but PHP based) - something like a portal. However, i want to do this right. Can anyone help me in delineating the various processes that my site can go through ? Like : How the data flows between different pages (data flow diagram) ? Steps in selecting a design etc.. etc... Basically ...