studies

Graduate studies after a computer science degree

I am currently a computer science undergraduate student(5-year studies).What do you propose for graduate studies,concerning market needs? ...

worth of getting certified

In 6 months I will be a graduate and pursuing a masters in computers for the next 2 years in India. My options after that are to either do a post graduation (again) from a reputed college abroad, or to take up a job. Recently I came to know about about global certification programs like ccna, ccnp, ccie, oca, ocp, j2se, mcse, mcp etc. ...

Are there any studies on whether functional/declarative or imperative programming is easier to learn as a first language?

Not best to learn, but easiest to learn. Not easiest for programmers, but for non-programmers (as a first language). Not opinions or anecdotes, but are there any studies? I think that functional/declarative programming (Haskell, Scheme, Lisp etc) is more powerful and more abstract than imperative programming, and therefore is intrinsi...

B.com vs B.tech (in computer science).

What's the difference between them? Which is better? Please share your thoughts on it.. ...

Know any unobstrusive, simple GUI guidelines or design recommendations for notifications?

Hello again. I'm in the process of designing and testing various ideas for an application whose main functionality will be to notify users of occurring events and offer them with a choice of actions for each. The standard choice would be to create a queue of events showing a popup in the taskbar with the events and actions, but I want ...

iPhone app pricing model question?

I have heard there has been some studies of the apple app store for the iphone. It was a comparison between having a free application supported by ad vs a .99 cent application. .99 cents seems to be the sweet spot for a lot of the smaller applications. Anyone know where those studies were done? Are people having better success with .99 ...

Is using get set properties of C# considered good practice?

Hi, my question is simple, is using the get set properties of C# considered good, better even than writing getter and setter methods? When you use these properties, don't you have to declare your class data members as public ? I ask this because my professor stated that data members should never be declared as public, as it is considered...

SEO really important? Are there any studies?

I'm studying at a university, and it's really important to be able to support arguments with facts. Are there any studies about SEO? I've read that people don't bother to go to the next page on google, they do a new search instead. But are there really any studies in the subject? ...