This is my third year at University of Texas at Austin and as a dual major and CS and Pure Math, I must say that my mathematical background is more than helping me in CS.
IMO to become extremely good at programming, a natural understaning of working of algorithms is essential. It is important to take a theoretical course in analysis of algorithms. Once you formally prove an algorithm and its workings, you gain a natural understanding of its behaviour. Pure math classes give you the requisite mind set to understand and prove the correctness of algorithms and for that matter anything CS related.
According to this link, the increase in number of skilled jobs is going to be really high by the year 2008. I read the actual article when it came out in the magazine and figures it mentioned(not mentioned in the linked article) indicated that the highest job increase in the top 10 cities mentioned in the said article we predominantly tech jobs. Cities like Washington DC and Austin, TX projected a near 100% increase in jobs. So getting into CET may not be that bad after all given the time you would be done with it.
Good luck
Well what I have noticed is that you give them the controller for the first time and they start beating you at it because they are obnoxiously fast at what a lot of us call button smashing. Its only later do they realize that they can do the cool fireball and spend the next hour trying to perfect that. Thats when you kick their ass!
These are the two genres that are not completely appreciated by most science fiction fanatics. Be it the complete Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, the futuristic look at Batman in The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller or the Swamp Thing saga by Alan Moore. They are writers with an amazing story telling attitude that uses the sci-fi aspect only to make the story go forward as opposed to the central aspect of their story being the crazy new technological advances we make in the future.
When it comes to cyberpunk, as many posters have noted earlier, Gibson and Stephenson have really shaped the genre itself. Neuromancer and its followings talk a lot about the setting up of the entity that was the basic premise behind movies like The Matrix. Stephenson on the otherhand spends more time wonderfully detailing the cyberworld itself.
This is not a realy question, but a response to it would be appreciated.
What I find extremely weird about is that we are trying make something (a computer in this case) that is designed to work with a linear thinking model to think parallelly whereas we ourselves, as humans who have the capacity to think parallelly, end up thinking linearly.
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I wonder if Lucas Arts will ever revive the Full Throttle franchise. They were planning a sequel and then squashed it. It was a sad day for gamer-kind
Get them drunk and then have them start a Gentoo install.
Worked for my girlfriend.
Wait.. that was fun for ME.
All I have to say is that running a Gentoo install while completely drunk is extremely entertaining, even if extremely hazardous for your health.
Drunken root is not like being a drunken master of kung fu.
Nah .. thats un-fucking-believable
This is my third year at University of Texas at Austin and as a dual major and CS and Pure Math, I must say that my mathematical background is more than helping me in CS. IMO to become extremely good at programming, a natural understaning of working of algorithms is essential. It is important to take a theoretical course in analysis of algorithms. Once you formally prove an algorithm and its workings, you gain a natural understanding of its behaviour. Pure math classes give you the requisite mind set to understand and prove the correctness of algorithms and for that matter anything CS related.
According to this link, the increase in number of skilled jobs is going to be really high by the year 2008. I read the actual article when it came out in the magazine and figures it mentioned(not mentioned in the linked article) indicated that the highest job increase in the top 10 cities mentioned in the said article we predominantly tech jobs. Cities like Washington DC and Austin, TX projected a near 100% increase in jobs. So getting into CET may not be that bad after all given the time you would be done with it. Good luck
Phew.. I am not the sole complete idiot for thinking the same.
Well what I have noticed is that you give them the controller for the first time and they start beating you at it because they are obnoxiously fast at what a lot of us call button smashing. Its only later do they realize that they can do the cool fireball and spend the next hour trying to perfect that. Thats when you kick their ass!
These are the two genres that are not completely appreciated by most science fiction fanatics. Be it the complete Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, the futuristic look at Batman in The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller or the Swamp Thing saga by Alan Moore. They are writers with an amazing story telling attitude that uses the sci-fi aspect only to make the story go forward as opposed to the central aspect of their story being the crazy new technological advances we make in the future.
When it comes to cyberpunk, as many posters have noted earlier, Gibson and Stephenson have really shaped the genre itself. Neuromancer and its followings talk a lot about the setting up of the entity that was the basic premise behind movies like The Matrix. Stephenson on the otherhand spends more time wonderfully detailing the cyberworld itself.
This is not a realy question, but a response to it would be appreciated. What I find extremely weird about is that we are trying make something (a computer in this case) that is designed to work with a linear thinking model to think parallelly whereas we ourselves, as humans who have the capacity to think parallelly, end up thinking linearly.