Thats the easy stuff. When you get to link state protocols and you have to explain the convergence process, and set Hello and Dead Intervals, and you have to subnet class B networks...
I wanna program on the side! How do I get started and how's the pay?
Word of mouth mostly.
I must have like maybe, 2 legal jobs under my belt, but the amount of money these stupid kids are willing to pay for **** they can google is too tempting lol.
See, there's three types of people in college:
1. There's the people that can do the work well,
2. The people that can do the work REALLY well
3. The people that pay people like types 1 and 2, to do the work for them.
I fall between type 1 and 2. Type 3 people will have an assignment, and ask, "how much?" I call a price, they pay it, I submit a program. 9 times out of 10 they are rich as **** and know other type 3 people, and they know more type 3 people, and so on and so forth. If there's any design stuff, I have an ex who majors in Graphic Design, and I just give her a cut of the loot.
The lecturers dont give a ****. One lecturer who I did some small work with recognized my signature (yes programmers have signature coding style) and pretty much knows. But Don't Ask, Dont Tell, so by the law, he doesnt know.
As far as legal work. Scour freelance sites online
I would suggest Freelancer.com and Odesk. I never got any jobs off Freelancer (they want to pay for some test... ) and only one off Odesk (it wasnt much tho) but It could provide some opportunities. And even if some are out of your scope, use them for practise.
EDIT: 10 times out of 10 they're rich as ****. Broke people would rather put in those sleepless nights than pay someone else.
Expertise: Games Programming (2D, 3D knowledge is beyond basic)
Experience: 3+ years in Java, C#, C/C++, XNA & Visual Basic
Favourite: C# / XNA
Why do you love your favourite language? Because its so simple to understand and write for and is actually pretty good for creating games
What don't you like about your favourite language? Sometimes u get an error and its like 90 lines long... Not here to read that ****
Can you give us a sample of your favourite language? Can't be arsed to c&p some code but here is something i made with it
The current project that is frying my head is that i'm using HTK to create a Hidden Markov Model that will be used for visual speech recognition, but i haven't the faintest idea on how to do it cos the damn tutorials for HTK only show HMMs bein built using speech/text for audio recognition.
I don't even know. I'm becoming a computer engineer so basically I want to just teach myself something that's useful in the workforce. I wanted to learn C++ because it's apparently used in the video game industry a lot which is something I'm definitely interested in.
If ur lookin to make video games but want an easier language, move to C# with the XNA plug in. Its much easier to get into than C++ imo and u can use it to create games for XBox 360 and Windows Phone.
It's kinda limitin platform wise since u'd only be on Microsoft really, but its a good starting point
So wait, Dartmouth gave you guys C, but not C++? What kind of medieval curriculum? How do you guys get your OOP?
We really need to update our Computer Science curriculum in America. I'm embarrassed that my school is still handling C++ as the primary language for the program like the world hasn't changed.
Nope, all of the courses that Ive taken were taught using either Java with the Eclipse IDE or standard C using Linux; The Object Oriented Language we used in this case was Java. granted Java is a very versatile programming language, but I wouldve liked the variety of including languages such as learning about mySQL and C++ and C#. Also, it seems that after freshman and sophomore year, the courses seem based on concepts rather than doing actual programming. The point of Computer Science should be focused on doing programming but as you get further in the curriculum, you do less and less programming
They would rather give us computer hardware courses rather than networking courses , aswell as irrelevant courses such as probability and statistics, which I dont think is necessary.
I have to do alot of my own research and practice, but I dont feel it should be this way , but I guess the open endedness of Computer Science makes it hard for teachers to go through everything in a four year period
Experience: 3 years with Java, 2 years with PL/SQL
Favourite: Java and PL/SQL
Why do you love your favourite language? Because it's what I've been forced to use and I lack the motivation to learn anything new
What don't you like about your favourite language? The fact that Java didn't include Generics since version 1
Can you give us a sample of your favourite language?
PROCEDURE queen_of_pop (pop_star IN VARCHAR2)
AS
BEGIN
IF(pop_star=='RIHANNA') THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Rihsus is indeed the queen of pop ');
ELSE
dbms_output.put_line('What is this mess? ');
END IF;
END;
Nope, all of the courses that Ive taken were taught using either Java with the Eclipse IDE or standard C using Linux; The Object Oriented Language we used in this case was Java. granted Java is a very versatile programming language, but I wouldve liked the variety of including languages such as learning about mySQL and C++ and C#. Also, it seems that after freshman and sophomore year, the courses seem based on concepts rather than doing actual programming. The point of Computer Science should be focused on doing programming but as you get further in the curriculum, you do less and less programming
They would rather give us computer hardware courses rather than networking courses , aswell as irrelevant courses such as probability and statistics, which I dont think is necessary.
I have to do alot of my own research and practice, but I dont feel it should be this way , but I guess the open endedness of Computer Science makes it hard for teachers to go through everything in a four year period
yeah those Computer Science Degrees are a lot of reading and Math
Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on iptables command?
Are there any Regex experts here?
I need some good regular expression tutorials. Not how to make them, but pointers and tips on how to construct them easier and more efficiently.
I'm coding an app that searches for all the health food stores in my country, and I'm scraping a local search engine. I parsed the HTML result through YQL into an XML file, and now I have to parse the XML into something useable, and every XML parsing library for Blackberry is either dated or just plain to use. Any help is appreciated.
I wasn't here for Blackberry so I don't know the API, but how far a long with you in the App? Can you afford to start from scratch using another solution if the benefits outweigh the negatives? If so, I may have an alternative.
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Nope, all of the courses that Ive taken were taught using either Java with the Eclipse IDE or standard C using Linux; The Object Oriented Language we used in this case was Java. granted Java is a very versatile programming language, but I wouldve liked the variety of including languages such as learning about mySQL and C++ and C#. Also, it seems that after freshman and sophomore year, the courses seem based on concepts rather than doing actual programming. The point of Computer Science should be focused on doing programming but as you get further in the curriculum, you do less and less programming
They would rather give us computer hardware courses rather than networking courses , aswell as irrelevant courses such as probability and statistics, which I dont think is necessary.
I have to do alot of my own research and practice, but I dont feel it should be this way , but I guess the open endedness of Computer Science makes it hard for teachers to go through everything in a four year period
I agree. After the basic programming sequence (C++ :/ ) you're on your own. It's sad that my school is the best in my region, but if I want to take a relevant class I have to actually take classes at a school in my home city (FIU). They have modern programming classes, windows phone development, iphone dev, ASP.NET 4.5 application programming you name it. It's like as soon as the technology is released they have a class ready for it by the next semester :\. But whatever, I don't mind being a self study but it's fun learning in a classroom environment and getting your credits for it.
I wasn't here for Blackberry so I don't know the API, but how far a long with you in the App? Can you afford to start from scratch using another solution if the benefits outweigh the negatives? If so, I may have an alternative.
Not too far actually. I could start over in Android, but the person asked for Blackberry, which kinda makes sense because The majority of phone users in the country have Blackberries. I was gonna work on a Android alternative afterwards.
Not too far actually. I could start over in Android, but the person asked for Blackberry, which kinda makes sense because The majority of phone users in the country have Blackberries. I was gonna work on a Android alternative afterwards.
Ya probably should use cordova/phonegap then.
You'll build the native app once for Blackberry/Android/ iOS/ and windows phone and have full access to the camera, accelerometer, and all the other phone specific features just like any other app.
Except the API calls are universal and much simpler.
Anyway, instead of relying on a blackberry specific library for XML parsing, you could just use Javascript with XMLHttpRequest (to grab/have the server return the file) then parse the XML tags/tree with xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName .
After which, you can have Cordova build it for whichever device you choose without rewriting the functions, but perhaps restyling it a little to make sure the button sizes are proper for blackberry sized screens.
Saves tons of time, and all it requires is HTML, CSS, and Javascript knowledge.
Were the lessons inexpensive back then? 
All the test/exam answers are on the internet, updated most of the times.
) and only one off Odesk (it wasnt much tho) but It could provide some opportunities. And even if some are out of your scope, use them for practise.
@ the gameplay.
I'm becoming a computer engineer so basically I want to just teach myself something that's useful in the workforce. I wanted to learn C++ because it's apparently used in the video game industry a lot which is something I'm definitely interested in.
What kind of medieval curriculum? How do you guys get your OOP?
, aswell as irrelevant courses such as probability and statistics, which I dont think is necessary.
The solution wasn't so obvious, but it was so simple 
to use. Any help is appreciated.