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Pastebin – Store and Share Source Code

Pastebin is a website that allows you to store source code so you can quickly share it with people by providing them the link that your paste creates. After that they may simply view it or create a new post below your code to submit a correction or amendment. It’s an amazing tool to show  Full Article…

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C++ – Scope of Variables

The scope of a variable determines the block of instructions in which a variable may be accessed. To understand this topic, we’ll start by discussing local variables. Local Variables Local variables may be accessed within the block of instructions in which they were declared. For example, when we write a main function, all variables declared  Full Article…

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University Computer Science Programs: Expectations vs. Reality

This is a guest post by Kenji Crosland, and written with the help of the engineering team at Teachstreet. TeachStreet is a website dedicated to providing online and local classes, including classes on programming. If you’re a college freshman deciding what your major is going to be, you might consider a course in computer science.  Full Article…

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Question: We want your answers!

After spending some time in your computer science career, was there something you wished you knew beforehand? Would you do something different? Let us know. I made a question using the Facebook Questions platform and got some responses, so I’ll be compiling people’s answers soon. Feel free to post your response in the original thread  Full Article…

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How to make a mobile website with iWebKit

iWebkit allows to create a ultra light and fast loading mobile website that is compatible with most smart phones. The best thing about it, is that it requires no knowledge of HTML. So how does it work? Simply download the iWebkit and take a look at the Userguide.pdf and browse the demo provided in the  Full Article…

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And Finals Week Just Started!

Go Bruins! This following week is known to many college students as dead week. Why is that so? Well, that’s because all days of instruction have finished and the days for the final examination begin. So if you don’t know yet, it’s called dead week for various reasons. Nearly all social activities stop during this  Full Article…

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Things seen in student code over at FOB

One of the best ways to learn how to program is to have people review and critique your code. Even better is when you know beforehand what bad code looks like so you can avoid doing it. Fortunately for us, FOB wrote an article titled Things I see in student code. A lot of these  Full Article…

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