Comments on: Good Advice For Computer Science Students

By: Thierry Mlisho

Thierry Mlisho — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:29:38 +0000

I feel very excited with these advises and I’ll apply them In my studies.

By: JOHN DUNCAN

JOHN DUNCAN — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:30:14 +0000

Why should a lecturer ask a person the process of Mail merging yet if you draw the process she doesnt give you any marks.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:36:37 +0000

The 100,000 lines of code is a misleading point. Any competent programmer can write thousands of lines of code, implementing the same sorting algorithms and binary trees over and over and over…

A cleaver line of Ruby or Perl or Python can easily outweight a block of generic Java, at least in terms of education and experience.

By: Justin George

Justin George — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:02:49 +0000

I love the ‘write a program that sorts…’ one.

(arrayname).sort does the trick. I love Ruby.

Javascript is almost that simple: (arrayname).sort( function(a,b){ return a – b; })

Why must people ask these things at interviews?

By: Vineet Kumar

Vineet Kumar — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:23:54 +0000

I wouldn’t call the python challenge a perfect fit for a 4th year CS undergrad. I’ve played through the challenge, and while I think it’s really cool, there are definitely some tasks that require bits of wisdom that are generally off-topic for CS classes. Without that wisdom, which only comes through experience, I think the python challenge would prove frustrating.

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By: phoenyx

phoenyx — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:50:58 +0000

I never have liked using lines of code as a metric (especially without context). It implies that languages that require more lines of code to do something are somehow better.

I’d like to point out that there is probably a “quiz” or “challenge” for the language of your choice.

By: dabaR

dabaR — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:03:32 +0000

Hey, Aaron!

What concrete examples of putting the 7 points of advice in action can you give from your experience?

By: Roshan Shariff

Roshan Shariff — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:43:27 +0000

If you want to solve programming problems with a mathematical bent, Project Euler isn't a bad place to start. Another book you might want to read if your experience with programming is limited to C/C++/Java etc. is Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. The entire book is available online and I highly recommend the accompanying lectures (Google for the videos) to gain a different perspective on what computer programming is about.

By: mr blorb

mr blorb — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:25:30 +0000

8. Instead of learning how to be a replaceable code monkey, learn something real. In example quality processes, specification process, (contract) law, project management, ..

Almost anything goes here besides coding, and you will not be human waste anymore. Try for instance going to some arts classes and do some finger painting with oil paint.

By: anonim

anonim — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:45:35 +0000

Any book (or any other) recommendation for point númber 4? I’ve already finished my cs studies and I was working (until now) in a “bad” job. I had a lot of maths during my university and somehow I feel I’ve already lost a lot of that knowledge.

For a start i’ve switched job…

Great post.