I am a BSc student who is going to start the last year of my degree and I am wondering how relevant my final year project choice is going to be when looking for a job next year - and how it will affect what jobs will be open/closed to me when searching for my first programming/developer job. I presently have a couple of options for my f...
I'm one year away from finishing my bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and I'm not about to give up or anything. However, I've also spent time working in the field, developing software that people actually use, and I've absolutely loved it. I do understand the importance of learning theory, and I have been doing so for the past 3+ ...
This is sort-of in response to a question posted earlier. Almost all programmer's I've met seem to enjoy writing business software, esp. doing web development. A friend of mine said he would never go into game development because there's too much math in it (I love math - to me, it's just like programming. I couldn't understand how someo...
I am studying for cryptography and I somehow stuck on understanding how DES works. Because it is around for a long time there should be nice tutorials like fancy diagrams, videos etc around the net. I searched but with no luck. Has anyone spotted anything "easy-to-digest" for the brain? ...
I was talking with an acquaintance about his son's plans post-high school and he indicated that his son might be interested in the sort of work I do -- software development. I offered to have him come job shadow me for a day, but it occurs to me that some days might be better than others due to the number of meetings. I'm thinking that ...
What can I do to set myself apart from other applicants as a student looking for a co-op? For the sake of this question, assume that I have just walked into a computer science program this semester and have no previous experience in programming, whatsoever. I have about a year before I'll be looking for a job and in that time I will ...
I'm a middle school student and I've taught myself to program. I've learned to think in objects and algorithms, how to use loops and ifs and functions and variables. I've also learned PHP, and to a lesser extent Rails and Django (the kinds of things I think of to build are usually database-driven web applications, and I really enjoy doin...
How do you study for IT related exams? Are you the sort of person that leave it to the last minute? Do you go through all of the lab work and re-do them? Do you use the techniques taught in personal projects, learn extra things that way? Do you just go over the lecture notes and hope for the best? I'm just finishing my undergrad CS deg...
Are there any good (as in recommended) (and free) resources available for finding CS related scholarships? ...
I am currently a senior in college and part of my research is to come up with materials that could be used in a course about enterprise web application development. I am taking the opportunity to learn about agile methodologies when developing software, but the course is going to be more about managing the growing number of technologies...
I am a senior computer science major and I am required to do a self study on a specific language of my choice. I am currently familiar with C++, Java, VB, PHP, and Silverlight. I would not consider myself a master of any of these languages but I have a functioning knowledge. Should I keep broadening my knowledge of different languages or...
DUPE: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4769/what-is-the-easiest-language-to-start-with What do you think is the best language to teach college students in an introductory computer science? ...
I'm a college student and at any given time I have 4-5 programs I'm writing in various languages for various classes/projects. At any given hour of the day I might be in the library, at home, in any of our different computer lab classrooms, etc. Right now my current modus operandi is at the end of each class period or coding session,...
I've got two high school juniors coming in today and I have no idea what to show them. I'm a software engineer and I'll have them for an hour. I could run through the basics of VCS, SQL or some web apps we've made, but I'd like to hear some suggestions. It'd be neat if we could build an C# or ASP.NET app from start to finish but an h...
I'm in a similar position to the OP of this post and would like to program for a living. With a year and a half before I graduate I'm trying to decide whether I should spend my energy mastering material I am already fairly comfortable with, (C and Python) or learning new stuff that I am very weak in like Emacs Lisp. With the former I su...
I remember when I took my first programming class in the 11th grade in high school. The course was called AP Computer Science. Anyway, the teacher had some very cool and challenging assignments to help us learn. One of which was a 2D fish tank simulation. The fish in the tank had a sex and other characteristics. Fish were born of other ...
I have attended only one code camp and that was part of my cs studies at the university. It was great fun as it took over the whole weekend and it was sponsored by local companies providing pizza and drinks. We learnt about location based mobile applications and we put together some simple games using user's location. Code Camp Manifest...
I'm starting my 2nd class in C# programming through Kaplan online school. I have some limited interaction with the professor and the class online, but nothing like in an actual school. I'm about to go through "Modern Software Development Using C#.NET" by Richard Wiener. It seems the book as a extremely heavy focus on UML (which I don't e...
Let's say I'm a college student who previously worked a summer programming internship at a large, well-known company, and this summer I haven't been able to find another one (due to interviews not going well and the economy and so on...). Would it be a bad career decision for me to interview for a "developer technical support" (helping ...
EDITED: Updated 3/23/09. See rest of post at bottom. I'm still having trouble with the indexer. Anymore help or examples would really help me out. Write a class, MyCourses, that contains an enumeration of all the courses that you are currently taking. This enum should be nested inside of your class MyCourses. Your class ...