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Which universities/colleges teach Microsoft ASP.NET and other MS technologies?

I saw "Which universities teach Python?", so I thought I would ask one about Microsoft technologies. Do you know of any schools that teach beginning to advanced Microsoft programming languages? ...

Do I own the copyright to code I write for school projects?

I'm a student at a US college, and I've been assigned a programming project to complete on my own. I wrote a program to solve a somewhat complex problem, and I'd like to release it under an open-source license so that others can use it and learn from it. However, I'm not entirely sure to whom the code's copyright belongs. The class' syll...

Studying both CS and math

Hi! This fall I'm going to the uni. Warsaw University, which is my 1st choice (for now at least) offers a joint course in Math and CS (resulting in two diplomas). Is this a good combination? The course is quite famous for the difficulty and work involved (there's quite the dropout rate AFAIK). It's worth mentioning that I see my futur...

Good (non-code) interview questions for college intern candidates

Next week I'm beginning several rounds of interviews for a company wide technical intern program. Many of these candidates are only sophomores or juniors and have little programming experience. They can do basic data structures, regurgitate algorithms and the like, but they have little or no professional coding experience in an enterpri...

Scheduling Students to Classes

I am making a website for a side project at school where students enter the classes they need to take, what days they want or don't want classes, and when they cant have or don't want classes. The basics are there are classes, and each class has many sections at different times with different professors that a student can choose from. Wi...

Education After High School

I know this isn't specifically a programming question, but please bear with me. I'm currently a high-school junior. I have no idea what to look for in a college: what degree, what school, etc. I've searched all around the internet but can't really find anything that relevant. I know I need a degree, but I don't know which or what to s...

Advice for last year college graduates

Hey guys, I know there are many "advice" questions around this site. But I wanted to to narrow mine down to last year college students, in my case my last year as Master student in computer science. So far is a list of things I've done during my time in college (which I can recommend others to do aswell): Code a lot I've written sever...

Help with Java Program for Prime numbers

Hello everyone, I was wondering if you can help me with this program. I have been struggling with it for hours and have just trashed my code because the TA doesn't like how I executed it. I am completely hopeless and if anyone can help me out step by step, I would greatly appreciate it. Problem In this project you will write a Java pro...

What should compsci majors do over the summer?

I'm a freshman going to be a sophomore in college, majoring in Computer Science. What are some things I could be doing (besides chilling - done too much of that) in order to further my career? I have a job, but I also want to do something with all the time I have, in this glorious time of no school called summer. ...

Best Online Programming Degree? (Masters Level)

I am less then a year from graduating with my bachelors in web development, however I would like to continue on with a masters in programming. As far as I can tell, what I want is a masters in software engineering. Sadly my current college only offers more management oriented masters level degrees, and I want something that is programmi...

Best computer-science universities in Europe?

I am in 11th grade and only one year left when I finish my school. I am sure I want to dedicate my life to programming. In my country the education's level is not so high as in Europe, so I want to emigrate and study not just for a diploma, but for knowledge too. So, what universities would you suggest me which has subject Computer-Scien...

Correct Response For Questions Regarding Lack Of College Degree

I've managed to land two programming jobs so far with a partial college degree. One was an internship/co-op type position that turned full-time, while the other is contract work I've received mainly via circumstance. I have an interview forthcoming (my roommate works at the company) and they have already asked him why I have not complet...

Which set(s) of video lectures for computer science?

Possible Duplicates: What are your favorite CS video lectures? Where can I find video lectures on software engineering? As most of you know a couple of top universities (MIT, Stanford, etc) around the world are now publishing videos of their lectures online. I am advancing to the third and final year of my computer science ...

learning java in college

Should I learn Java while I am in a college? I took c Programming and data structures using c the last two quarters. I am thinking of taking "intro to java for c programmers" this summer. The university that I am transferring to has options of transferring with or without java and it is not required for graduation. I was wondering if a...

Should I do my object oriented design class with Java or C++?

I learned the C programming language and did my data structures class with C. What I am thinking is to learn Java. I know how the low level stuff works and people suggested that C++ is not a good language to do object oriented design. What do you think? Should I skip C++ and learn object oriented design using Java or should I first learn...

Where do you find the dataset which contains info on all colleges/courses

Where do you find information on courses offered by various colleges across the world. We are planning to re-use this data for suggesting possible colleges where a student can apply. Is this data provided by any company as an API much similar to the API(s) available in http://www.programmableweb.com/ ...

Do employers like games?

I'm going to be graduating in August, and I have a portfolio of projects that I have worked on, either in my spare time, or for class assignments. Most of these projects are games, which I either wrote entirely, or acted as the graphics/engine programmer for a team. I'm a bit concerned that a potential employer might not take me seriousl...

Any career advice for a programmer?

Hi all, Not sure if this is entirely on topic, but it seemed just as relevant as questions about programming books, etc., so here goes. I'm about to be a junior in college, planning on majoring in Computing and the Arts, which will be roughly half computer science and half music. I've programmed in my spare time for years, last year go...

Getting the jack-of-all-trades degree

Not literally of course. I'm an upcoming senior in high school and I've spent my years since 8th grade designing & developing websites, administrating forums, setting up LAMP stacks, working on a few open source projects, and the daily debugging. I feel like I've touched on many different aspects of technological industry—inclined toward...

Can you help improve one of my college's class on low level software and peripheral interfaces?

Hello, everyone. I am a 2nd year student at the Portuguese Engineering Faculty at the University of Oporto. I am currently studying for a Joint Degree (5 yr undergrad + masters) in Informatics and Computer engineering (which is basically software engineering :P). I think the course is great, and well structured, but I was in for a nast...