Unless we can support that much life with food, water and other resources, war for diminishing resources will wipe out enough population before we even get close to that.
I just left California for Boulder, Colorado for a paid internship as an Android developer, and so far it's only been a month, but I can definitely tell you it was a great decision. It's paid, the people are awesome about teaching the small things that you just can't pick up in a class (proper memory management, breaking functions down to small tasks, proper OOP, etc.) and reinforcing the ideas from Code Complete and Effective Java, the company is surprisingly good to their programmers and the fact that I'm not in a podunk farm down is amazing and all around it's been a ton of work, and a ton of learning. Add to it that the people I work with are all active in the meetup community, and I've been making connections that I'm sure will be incredibly useful when I graduate next semester.
No career is a 'dead end career' unless you're awful at it, or it's just completely unneeded (or over saturated). If you've already started learning the stuff and they're paying you, keep at it.
Thanks for this piece. This is actually one of the things I heard early on in my degree program because they had the campus DBA teaching our databases class. Funny enough, I think only myself and one other person took his advice and learned general SQL and database structures, and it's already helped me in almost every project I've worked on.
I was actually lucky enough to have been there on Friday for the expo portion with a student pass, and I have to say the big companies didn't really show up for that portion. Sony and Microsoft had very light presence at the expo, despite having larger booths. Intel and AMD, along with various smaller vendors for something cloud based or app marketing based (that's about all there was in the small business area, apart from marmalade and corona). However, aside from there not being a big large business presence, the indie games were pretty awesome. I'm definitely going to buy Starforge this week because it was a mix of Halo and Minecraft, and I loved it.
This article makes people who listen to vinyl sound pretentious as all get out. I have a decent sized collection of vinyl records that I listen to daily, but that's mainly because I won a pretty sweet turntable and stereo set. MP3 has its place, like in the car and whatnot, but I do enjoy just putting on a record and listening to it from start to finish as well. I also enjoy owning the physical records and going through the case artwork, etc. A couple of my Floyd and Jethro Tull albums have photo books in them. I guess the point is who cares what form your music takes? If you enjoy it, go for it. If not, that's cool too.
Depends on your definition of standards. I go to a local State college because, well, it's local and I can afford it. If you're paying your own way, there's not a lot of chances for you to go to a very high end university for computer science. I am looking at alternatives for when (if) I get my masters, but I may just end up staying here because of that same exact reason.
What's really important for a computer science graduate isn't necessarily the school, but their own independent projects. While my school isn't the best, it does provide enough information to lay down a foundation for further self study, and those of us that are smart enough to take the initiative to learn additional platforms (Android, embedded systems and robotics, etc.) and build portfolios are doing way better than the others who are just in the major because they 'like the Internet' or heard that it pays well. There's a huge degree of separation between myself, who has just been offered an internship as an Android development intern for a large media corporation, and a couple of my friends/drinking buddy classmates who haven't developed their abilities outside of class projects that were required to receive a passing grade.
I had a female huskey while living in an apartment growing up, and we could be rough with that dog to our hearts content and she'd either love to play, or would just get annoyed and run off. One day someone jumped the fence and broke the glass door into the apartment, and all we saw when we got home (other than the glass) was a nice bit of blood and a trail going back towards the fence.
Yeah it only shares that information if you're selling a paid app. For free apps, it just sits in your development console and you see how many are installed/downloaded each day.
Wait, this is new? I released my first paid app in November, and the only information you get is email, zipcode/city and name. I've been using the zipcode information to put pins in a map to see everywhere in the world I've sold to, heh.
As someone who is currently a senior in computer science and looking for summer internships, what is it that Khan Academy developers look for in perspective interns? I've looked over the blog posts from some of the past interns, and their projects all seem pretty amazing. Is it possible for someone who doesn't have a fair amount of professional level experience to jump in to the internship program with Khan Academy?
Disclaimer: I currently have an application in for the internship program, hence my curiosity:)
Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein. They had prisoners who mined on the moon, and when they rebelled against the government, they hurled down moon rocks. Good little story.
Ah, yeah ours is just tuition. If you want to live on campus, it's even more expensive with rent and food plans, etc. Honestly out here it's cheaper to find an apartment or live a bit out of town and drive in. Even then it's not too bad. With 3400 a semester + living (350 in rent, 20 in internet, 20 in PG&E with a roommate) it's still not too bad. Then again, no one wants to live in Fresno >.>
They forget to mention that one of the best parts of college, apart from being introduced to new things (not necessarily taught new things, but shown that they exist so you can look into them yourself in your spare time), is networking. During my upper division coursework, I've spent far longer at the bar than I should have, but that time at the bar has been with guys from my computer science classes and we've discussed a lot of ideas, brought in our laptops and worked on some awesome things (released an Android game recently that was programmed 100% at the bar, and usually after a drink or two. Comments galore so I could keep track of my thoughts >.>). You meet people that are _awesome_ at things that you barely grasp, and vice versa. You make friends and team up and work on projects that would take you far longer on your own than if you hadn't collaborated and met people along the way. Example: I generally handle a lot of the Android, web and database stuff for my group of friends, whereas another guy handles circuitry if we want to do something with the Audrino, and is awesome at C and 80x86 assembly, and the last guy is _great_ with math and algorithms for making things "just work."
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What insanely overpriced school is that? Here in California, a State university tuition is 3400 a semester after our most recent increase. At community college I was paying about 500 a semester. After graduating this semester, I'll have managed to pull off only paying 25k out of pocket for 5 years on a CSCI degree with a math minor.
Where I'm finishing up my CS degree, there isn't a software engineering program at all, but rather you can take 3 electives in it. A lot of our CS electives are way more practical than our core classes, too. It's a pretty nice mix when you can skip the theoretical nonsense, I just don't know how well that holds up compared to other universities
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Unless we can support that much life with food, water and other resources, war for diminishing resources will wipe out enough population before we even get close to that.
This.
I just left California for Boulder, Colorado for a paid internship as an Android developer, and so far it's only been a month, but I can definitely tell you it was a great decision. It's paid, the people are awesome about teaching the small things that you just can't pick up in a class (proper memory management, breaking functions down to small tasks, proper OOP, etc.) and reinforcing the ideas from Code Complete and Effective Java, the company is surprisingly good to their programmers and the fact that I'm not in a podunk farm down is amazing and all around it's been a ton of work, and a ton of learning. Add to it that the people I work with are all active in the meetup community, and I've been making connections that I'm sure will be incredibly useful when I graduate next semester.
No career is a 'dead end career' unless you're awful at it, or it's just completely unneeded (or over saturated). If you've already started learning the stuff and they're paying you, keep at it.
Thank you for your advice. I've actually already started that last semester and have been keeping up with it: www.ptrprograms.com
Thanks for this piece. This is actually one of the things I heard early on in my degree program because they had the campus DBA teaching our databases class. Funny enough, I think only myself and one other person took his advice and learned general SQL and database structures, and it's already helped me in almost every project I've worked on.
I was actually lucky enough to have been there on Friday for the expo portion with a student pass, and I have to say the big companies didn't really show up for that portion. Sony and Microsoft had very light presence at the expo, despite having larger booths. Intel and AMD, along with various smaller vendors for something cloud based or app marketing based (that's about all there was in the small business area, apart from marmalade and corona). However, aside from there not being a big large business presence, the indie games were pretty awesome. I'm definitely going to buy Starforge this week because it was a mix of Halo and Minecraft, and I loved it.
This article makes people who listen to vinyl sound pretentious as all get out. I have a decent sized collection of vinyl records that I listen to daily, but that's mainly because I won a pretty sweet turntable and stereo set. MP3 has its place, like in the car and whatnot, but I do enjoy just putting on a record and listening to it from start to finish as well. I also enjoy owning the physical records and going through the case artwork, etc. A couple of my Floyd and Jethro Tull albums have photo books in them. I guess the point is who cares what form your music takes? If you enjoy it, go for it. If not, that's cool too.
Depends on your definition of standards. I go to a local State college because, well, it's local and I can afford it. If you're paying your own way, there's not a lot of chances for you to go to a very high end university for computer science. I am looking at alternatives for when (if) I get my masters, but I may just end up staying here because of that same exact reason.
What's really important for a computer science graduate isn't necessarily the school, but their own independent projects. While my school isn't the best, it does provide enough information to lay down a foundation for further self study, and those of us that are smart enough to take the initiative to learn additional platforms (Android, embedded systems and robotics, etc.) and build portfolios are doing way better than the others who are just in the major because they 'like the Internet' or heard that it pays well. There's a huge degree of separation between myself, who has just been offered an internship as an Android development intern for a large media corporation, and a couple of my friends/drinking buddy classmates who haven't developed their abilities outside of class projects that were required to receive a passing grade.
So... looks like I got beat to it. This is the same link as a couple above. Move along, move along.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Something I watched a couple years ago, and I think still holds true on the idea of never talking to the police.
This.
I had a female huskey while living in an apartment growing up, and we could be rough with that dog to our hearts content and she'd either love to play, or would just get annoyed and run off. One day someone jumped the fence and broke the glass door into the apartment, and all we saw when we got home (other than the glass) was a nice bit of blood and a trail going back towards the fence.
Yeah it only shares that information if you're selling a paid app. For free apps, it just sits in your development console and you see how many are installed/downloaded each day.
Wait, this is new? I released my first paid app in November, and the only information you get is email, zipcode/city and name. I've been using the zipcode information to put pins in a map to see everywhere in the world I've sold to, heh.
As someone who is currently a senior in computer science and looking for summer internships, what is it that Khan Academy developers look for in perspective interns? I've looked over the blog posts from some of the past interns, and their projects all seem pretty amazing. Is it possible for someone who doesn't have a fair amount of professional level experience to jump in to the internship program with Khan Academy? Disclaimer: I currently have an application in for the internship program, hence my curiosity :)
Yo dawg, I heard you like phones, so I put a phone with your phone, so you can use a phone while you use your phone.
Children are starving around the world NOW and you want to blather on about guns?
I take it you don't have any apps on Amazon huh? Their sales, from everything I've seen, are drops in the bucket compared to the play store
Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein. They had prisoners who mined on the moon, and when they rebelled against the government, they hurled down moon rocks. Good little story.
Point of this? Other than defamation.
Anyone with a WSJ account able to post the article?
Ah, yeah ours is just tuition. If you want to live on campus, it's even more expensive with rent and food plans, etc. Honestly out here it's cheaper to find an apartment or live a bit out of town and drive in. Even then it's not too bad. With 3400 a semester + living (350 in rent, 20 in internet, 20 in PG&E with a roommate) it's still not too bad. Then again, no one wants to live in Fresno >.>
They forget to mention that one of the best parts of college, apart from being introduced to new things (not necessarily taught new things, but shown that they exist so you can look into them yourself in your spare time), is networking. During my upper division coursework, I've spent far longer at the bar than I should have, but that time at the bar has been with guys from my computer science classes and we've discussed a lot of ideas, brought in our laptops and worked on some awesome things (released an Android game recently that was programmed 100% at the bar, and usually after a drink or two. Comments galore so I could keep track of my thoughts >.>). You meet people that are _awesome_ at things that you barely grasp, and vice versa. You make friends and team up and work on projects that would take you far longer on your own than if you hadn't collaborated and met people along the way. Example: I generally handle a lot of the Android, web and database stuff for my group of friends, whereas another guy handles circuitry if we want to do something with the Audrino, and is awesome at C and 80x86 assembly, and the last guy is _great_ with math and algorithms for making things "just work."
What insanely overpriced school is that? Here in California, a State university tuition is 3400 a semester after our most recent increase. At community college I was paying about 500 a semester. After graduating this semester, I'll have managed to pull off only paying 25k out of pocket for 5 years on a CSCI degree with a math minor.
Where I'm finishing up my CS degree, there isn't a software engineering program at all, but rather you can take 3 electives in it. A lot of our CS electives are way more practical than our core classes, too. It's a pretty nice mix when you can skip the theoretical nonsense, I just don't know how well that holds up compared to other universities
He was my actual vote >.> He seemed the most reasonable out of all of the candidates. It's a shame the media and government don't care about options.