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Comment on National Honor Society Speech: Scholarship by Monkeys

Monkeys — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:07:46 +0000

That is amazing. I wrote one, and I tried to model it a little after this one.

Comment on National Honor Society Speech: Scholarship by Peter

Peter — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:12:35 +0000

This speech is fantastic. Loved it.

Comment on Computer Science Education and its Dependence on Math: From the Perspective of CS Professors by rohitdubey

rohitdubey — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:44:38 +0000

that for must is educational in the word MTECH COMPUTER

Comment on Aptana, the Ideal IDE for Drupal and Web Development by internetnih strani

internetnih strani — Wed, 11 May 2011 10:21:40 +0000

I could not agree more with you. If you are specialized in web development in general, than Aptana is way ahead of anything freely available for the enterprise web development.

Ubuntu + Aptana such a perfect couple!

Comment on Computer Science Education and its Dependence on Math: From the Perspective of CS Professors by Mervs

Mervs — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:55:28 +0000

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Comment on Computer Science Education and its Dependence on Math: From the Perspective of CS Professors by william

william — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:21:36 +0000

Oh your so right. I had to do that even though I never use it so you should too.

I’ve got news for you the low cost countries make their CompSci undergrads learn math too. They should be spending their time learning something more useful to the average business. Maybe some architecture and theory rather than mathematics that almost none of them will ever use.

Again I have to ask. what are we training these new undergrads for? What kind of jobs? The bulk of the work skills needed can be done with a little tweak to CompSci. Give up the high level math and get on with analysis. Leave the heavy lifting for Software Engineering where it should be. After all we do just fine with Physicians Assistants, not everyone needs to be a doctor and few of them need to do research (at least they better not be when I’m the patient).

Comment on Computer Science Education and its Dependence on Math: From the Perspective of CS Professors by Juice

Juice — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:08:53 +0000

If the math is not your thing, switch the business college. They have a lot less math than the engineering college. Even if your goal is an engineering Masters, I would urge you to consider another college for your undergrad. The work load and extra time to mature are very import to many people.

Celebrated CompSci majors are mostly those with great ideas, or those credited for the ideas. Being a great programmer is not required or often a quality even present in these people. You will frequently find qualities such as, foresight, persistence, right place at the right time etc.

Programming on the margin is increasing something that is being done in the low cost countries. We should not cheapen college education into low wage vocational education. Some day the Von Nuemann architecture / Turing Machine may not be the most appropriate model for CompSci major to study. Today however, especially if your goal is to be a programmer, it is.
Calculus is just not that hard. Put in your work. Get an A if you can. Otherwise, a B should be possible for most with appropriate effort and work habits. Then move on and find a great idea.