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…
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…
Have you ever found yourself writing up a technical document in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint and found it cumbersome typing up complex formulas for a technical paper? Let me introduce you to the LaTeX language. LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system that allows you to focus on getting the correct content Full Article…
Ever find yourself looking for an e-mail for a second too long on Gmail? Well then read ahead if you want to learn about Gmail’s advanced search operators to find what you are looking for quickly and accurately. You can use these advanced search operators if you simply click on the Show Search Option link Full Article…
I have to admit, adjusting to graduate school was a lot more challenging than I initially thought. Fortunately, I found the time to set my priorities straight and plan to continue updating this site on a regular schedule like before. Meanwhile, for now why don’t you follow me on Twitter and Facebook? I recently started Full Article…
A function gives the user the ability to execute a block of instructions on a set of inputs to receive a particular output. Functions are useful when the user needs to execute a set of instructions many times with different parameters. The syntax for a function is below: return_type name(parameter1, parameter2, …) { statements } Full Article…
The folks over at Mashable wrote an interesting article giving general tips for programmers looking for a job, 6 Job Search Tips for Aspiring Programmers. But why should you care if there is a big demand for people in Computer Science? Well, there is a demand but the most interesting and competitive jobs go out Full Article…
