What every computer science major should know (2011)
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What every computer science major should know (2011)
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#2I couldn't get past "Computer science is not quite engineering."
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#3I couldn't get past "Computer science is not quite engineering."
Academia vs. industry; or, Who pays the bills?
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#4This is a really great resource to keep track of. As an up and coming graduate, I'll probably refer back to it from time to time.
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#5Interestingly the word "mobile" did not appear once.
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#6I earned my CS BS degree almost 30 years ago. My school kind of served as a training ground for mainframe programmers. We had plenty of assembler and COBOL, but not much in systems architecture and design.
There is a lot that has become much more relevant since then: Security, networking, and distributed systems. But if I could have taken one more course, I'd really like to have studied graph theory.
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#7I earned my CS BS degree almost 30 years ago. My school kind of served as a training ground for mainframe programmers. We had plenty of assembler and COBOL, but not much in systems architecture and design. There is a lot that has become much more relevant since then: Security, networking, and distributed systems. But if I could have taken one more course, I'd really like to have studied graph theory.
It's never too late to pick up a graph theory book.
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#8On the subject of technical communication, formal oral presentations are not enough -- frequent practice engaging in short defenses of small ideas would benefit students immensely when it comes to working on teams in industry.
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#9Every computer science major should... double check they've entered all the correct input before pressing the submit button.
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#10I earned my CS BS degree almost 30 years ago. My school kind of served as a training ground for mainframe programmers. We had plenty of assembler and COBOL, but not much in systems architecture and design. There is a lot that has become much more relevant since then: Security, networking, and distributed systems. But if I could have taken one more course, I'd really like to have studied graph theory.
It's never too late to pick up a graph theory book.
Agreed. As computing professionals we should always be learning. Whether that is graph theory, a new programming language, or anything else for that matter.