Hi, as the title says I'd like advice on choosing a degree for a future career in programming. I recently attended a Mastering Physics workshop at the University of Nottingham, in which I attended several lectures. One of these lectures was dedicated to the benefits of taking a physics degree. The lecturer said that physicists were oft...
Not sure if this is the proper place to post this question, but I've seen questions regarding ISBN databases, so I thought it would be appropriate. In my website, I intend allow my users to choose between all the US college/universities (community or 4 year institutes). I would then store their selection in a database. At first I thoug...
I'm trying to create an auto-complete text field with a list of known Universities and Colleges. Do you know where I can get this sort of list? Or is there a public API that contains this data? ...
I've been programming since I was about 17, admittedly I wasn't the strongest programmer at the time but I've buckled down and now I'm comfortably completing assignments in my 3rd year of University. I was in a Computer Games Programming course but promptly switched to the generic Information Technology course with a heavy emphasis on pr...
Interesting question for everyone. So I have am thinking of adding a "university attended" field to the profile page of members in Drupal. I guess I am trying to figure out the best way to go about it. I was originally thinking of a text field, but than I thought you could get multiple instances of of university names, making it hard to ...
I am likely to be part of the teaching team for the web programming course at my University next semester and I was wondering what kind of Javascript assignment to hand out to the students. The course is not an introductory one from a programming perspective. It is assumed that the students are familiar with OOP, data structures and al...
Possible Duplicate: Is UML practical? I am doing UML in my University and I do not understand why we must do it. It looks like a model for OO databases but I think I can write Java without UML. I want to know the technical reasons why UML is used in the professional world; why it is important. Not just learn it because the pr...
I am a university student who is going to be taking a programming language course in the upcoming semester. One of the course requirements is to specialize (for the course) in a language in which you have no prior experience and is not covered in the course. I've begun looking through lists of languages, but I would like to get some feed...
Possible Duplicate: Best free online Computer Science college courses What are the best FREE Computer Science videos on iTunesU and Youtube or anywhere else on the Net? I've recently been going through the iTunesU Stanford course on Programming Methodology (Really Good!) and love to know if Other Universities/Organizations hav...
I'm a teacher(instructor) of CS in the university. The course is based on Cormen and Knuth and students program algorithms in C++. But sometimes it is good to show how an algorithm works or just a result of task through GUI. Also in my opinion it's very imporant to be able to write full programs. They will have courses concerning GUI but...
Hi all Im having rather an annoying problem. I have a class called Person and a class called Event which serve to create objects to be used for competitors that compete in a certain event. When I add a competitor thats fine and the GUI list updates accordingly, however when I add an event the element in the array does not take on the va...
hi everyone I visiting this site and I am eager to apply for the Master’s or ph.D's program at the University. I want to go computer science faculty(java) or development but I have a question. Do you consider your transcript(s) of university-level work an accurate indication of your academic ability? (what's your Idea?) Thanks a lot ...
This question is a bit more philosophical so feel free to remove if you like but it's been bugging me for the last 4 years! As a final year student I find that exams can be often be passed with a couple of days of cramming, without necessarily retaining or understanding the content i.e. a regurgitation of lecture notes is often enough t...
I'm at a fork in the road. I need somebody to give me some advice from their personal journey in IT. At the moment, I have a college diploma (2 years) in Computer Programmer, and about 2 years of professional experience in the field of software. I'm currently freelancing my programming skills to the public, and am enjoying a nice income...
My client's web app allows members to sign up (Rails using AuthLogic) and those signups are limited in that they must be under the auspices of a university. To wit: A university organizer can sign up to be the representative of a university, and students can sign up as "attendees" of that university. I've been tasked with finding if the...
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...
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 ...
I'm taking an operating systems design class in which they have given us a microkernel written in C that we're building on top of. The kernel seems to have been designed with 32-bit machines in mind and I'm running snow leopard. So a friend in the class and I have been trying to hack it into 64-bit addressing. The biggest issue seems to...
Hi, I know, I might be asking much, but does any one know of some nice little programming examples / libraries for Haskell. For a 'introduction to programming' course I want to show that Haskell is more than a 'little script language to sort numbers'. I already found a Quake clone (Real world Haskell programming) which is impressiv...
I love program. I love solving problems, seek for algorithms and so on. And I love mix it. I program websites with php/mysql/javascript. What I want to do in the future is to write programs. I am not very keen to understand how software works, build robots and something like that but as I mentioned before, I just love programm. So, shoul...