I'm a CS student in Aus, and am neck-deep in programming. I love it, I think maybe a little too much. So when I read/hear from some sources about the state of the IT industry here I get knots in my stomach. As cheezy as it sounds I love this country and don't want to have to choose between a dev career and living here. However if push came to shove I'm really not sure.So hopefully there are...
Neat coincidence seeing this post. A few weeks ago I stumbled upon your tutorial for the tv show tracker application, and I went through it line by line. After that I decided to make my own web application and your tutorial was 100% what gave me the foundation and concepts to do that.
So thanks for the great write up, and ever since starting the project I've pushed every day! Only 11 days, but I hope I can get 365 as well.
This is something that I really have been trying to cover in my spare time. Unfortunately (in this regard) my degree is very 'industry-focused' and hence discards the more 'theoretically inclined' units. Something which I disagree with personally, however that's a discussion for a different time and place.
I'm currently undertaking Intro to Algs from MIT (6.006). With my given course load this is about as much as I can commit to this area at the moment. I however feel like I need to be doing more in this area. What would you recommend? I feel like getting results on Topcoder/et.al would provide a nice tangible learning experience. Would you agree with this or recommend some other activity/resource?
Cheers again.
I'm currently in my first year of a two year masters degree in software engineering. I'm comfortable with the coursework and am really enjoying it.Where I feel lost is in my spare time. I have a bookmarks folder with about 200 links to articles, resources, videos, etc. I'm incredibly overwhelmed with the amount of 'stuff' out there; languages, frameworks, tools, and so on. I feel a bit lost...