So, here's the deal, there are strength in numbers. Have you ever rowed a boat by yourself? Have you ever rowed a boat by yourself against a full team of rowers? That team of rowers will pass you by ever single time. That's the power of working together in unity.
Union members earn about 30% better wages and benefits than non-unionized employees.
If you want to join a union, I suggest the IBEW. They are the biggest electrical union in North America. They represent more than just electrical workers. 55% percent of their workers are professional or technical.
You can read more about IBEW at the following link. http://www.ibew.org/union/index.htm
You can also read more about the how and why join a union at http://www.ibew37.com/join_ibew37
It's hard to decide what you want to do, both have their pro's and con's.
But to answer your question on programming languages, a loop is a loop, a conditional statement is a conditional statement and that's never going to change. All the other stuff is syntactical stuff which you can easy look up on the web. If you know that there is function or syntax in one language, most often, you can find in another language. It may be hard at first but you write a program one line at a time.
I love reading articles like this because this forces me to vote with my wallet. I wouldn't boycott Capcom comletely but I sure as heck won't ever buy a version of this game.
You need your "master data" (ie: data that describes your work and is considered to be of quality) centralized in something like a RDBMS (SQL Server, etc). Once you have it there you can write scripts to find orphans. Basically you will have a metadata table that will contain all available 'links' to your master data. You then try and find the other side of the "link". The question you are trying to determine is "is the meta data of any quality?".
So, if you needed a table it would look something like this.
Unique key of Master Data, Flag to determine if unique key exists (because this changes over time), Meta Data key, flag to determine if meta data exists(because this changes as well)
You then run a script against this nightly to determine if your "links" are broken. I also like to have it visualized by having an HTML page display a nice gren check for a good link and a big red x for a bad link.
If you do this, you will really have a good idea of your data and it will allow you to QA it much better.
I was taught Computer Algorithms / C++ by Horowitz, Sahni and Rajasekaran( I believe they have a pseudocode version) and it was great. The seemed to be a perfect balance between the implementation and the ideas behind them.
I make a copy of the production database with *real data*. I augument the copy of the production db with the new schema. I then merge the schema back into the production database when I am happy with the testing.
I remember that a similar experiment was done before Einstein's Theory of Relativity to determine the speed of light with respect to earth. It was called the Michelson-Morley Experiment.
The results were null. There was no noticeable fringe shift.
So say, we get hit with a 10 second photon burst, what about about the other half of the earth. They will be shielded by the water and earth and will recieve less dose.
It would have to be really highly high dose to wipe out the whole earth and I find it really improbably due to the whole inverse square law of a point source.
You should have no problem breaking into the industry being a doctor/computer scientist. There is a large need for medical programs or biotech programs.
If you are self teaching yourself, start with an easy language like VB and learn how to program. Basically use a nice simple language to figure out logic paths. Next, read up on data structures and numerical methods. You must know the data and how it is used to solve problems. You don't need to be a master of writing these algorithms but you should be able to understand how they work and be smart enough to figure out how to implement them in a programming language.
The next step would be to study relational technology. Information systems is where the work is at.
Once you have learned the above and created a decent portfolio of applications. You should have no problem combining the doctor/computer scientist field.
I am doing the opposite actually. I am a computer scientist learning to become a health physicist!
I have found that debugging is great for stepping through complex algorithms but with technologies such as object oriented design, there is really not much of a need to debug. If you have your classes doing all the work, you can very easily determine the problem with your code. One problem that appears in a method of one class will most likely show up somewhere else where that method is called.
I think it's a shame Napster is getting in trouble for what they are doing. It's not like they are distributing the illegal mp3's themselves. Also, the music industry should get their act together and figure out how to make money with the new technolgies damn, it's like they are still in the 80's.
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So, here's the deal, there are strength in numbers. Have you ever rowed a boat by yourself? Have you ever rowed a boat by yourself against a full team of rowers? That team of rowers will pass you by ever single time. That's the power of working together in unity.
Union members earn about 30% better wages and benefits than non-unionized employees.
If you want to join a union, I suggest the IBEW. They are the biggest electrical union in North America. They represent more than just electrical workers. 55% percent of their workers are professional or technical.
You can read more about IBEW at the following link. http://www.ibew.org/union/index.htm
You can also read more about the how and why join a union at http://www.ibew37.com/join_ibew37
It's hard to decide what you want to do, both have their pro's and con's.
But to answer your question on programming languages, a loop is a loop, a conditional statement is a conditional statement and that's never going to change. All the other stuff is syntactical stuff which you can easy look up on the web. If you know that there is function or syntax in one language, most often, you can find in another language. It may be hard at first but you write a program one line at a time.
I love reading articles like this because this forces me to vote with my wallet. I wouldn't boycott Capcom comletely but I sure as heck won't ever buy a version of this game.
You need your "master data" (ie: data that describes your work and is considered to be of quality) centralized in something like a RDBMS (SQL Server, etc). Once you have it there you can write scripts to find orphans. Basically you will have a metadata table that will contain all available 'links' to your master data. You then try and find the other side of the "link". The question you are trying to determine is "is the meta data of any quality?".
So, if you needed a table it would look something like this.
Unique key of Master Data, Flag to determine if unique key exists (because this changes over time), Meta Data key, flag to determine if meta data exists(because this changes as well)
You then run a script against this nightly to determine if your "links" are broken. I also like to have it visualized by having an HTML page display a nice gren check for a good link and a big red x for a bad link.
If you do this, you will really have a good idea of your data and it will allow you to QA it much better.
I was taught Computer Algorithms / C++ by Horowitz, Sahni and Rajasekaran( I believe they have a pseudocode version) and it was great. The seemed to be a perfect balance between the implementation and the ideas behind them.
I make a copy of the production database with *real data*. I augument the copy of the production db with the new schema. I then merge the schema back into the production database when I am happy with the testing.
I remember that a similar experiment was done before Einstein's Theory of Relativity to determine the speed of light with respect to earth. It was called the Michelson-Morley Experiment.
The results were null. There was no noticeable fringe shift.
So say, we get hit with a 10 second photon burst, what about about the other half of the earth. They will be shielded by the water and earth and will recieve less dose.
It would have to be really highly high dose to wipe out the whole earth and I find it really improbably due to the whole inverse square law of a point source.
I find this all highly unlikely.
You should have no problem breaking into the industry being a doctor/computer scientist. There is a large need for medical programs or biotech programs.
If you are self teaching yourself, start with an easy language like VB and learn how to program. Basically use a nice simple language to figure out logic paths. Next, read up on data structures and numerical methods. You must know the data and how it is used to solve problems. You don't need to be a master of writing these algorithms but you should be able to understand how they work and be smart enough to figure out how to implement them in a programming language.
The next step would be to study relational technology. Information systems is where the work is at.
Once you have learned the above and created a decent portfolio of applications. You should have no problem combining the doctor/computer scientist field.
I am doing the opposite actually. I am a computer scientist learning to become a health physicist!
I have found that debugging is great for stepping through complex algorithms but with technologies such as object oriented design, there is really not much of a need to debug. If you have your classes doing all the work, you can very easily determine the problem with your code. One problem that appears in a method of one class will most likely show up somewhere else where that method is called.
I think it's a shame Napster is getting in trouble for what they are doing. It's not like they are distributing the illegal mp3's themselves. Also, the music industry should get their act together and figure out how to make money with the new technolgies damn, it's like they are still in the 80's.