Don't listen to him, his complaint is logically inconsistent with the fact that you made this thread and using colors isn't going to draw extra attention to the first post of the thread.

Don't listen to this troglodyte.

It depends on location, but yeah, it's competitive. Do you want to work there?

See if you can use "if", "and", or "or".

Look at the behavior of the division and modulo operators.



Learn how to take substrings and how to append strings to one another.

Blah blah blah, blah blah blah.

The answer is that Linux, Windows 7, and Mac OS X are good, but Solaris is not. Hope that helps :)

Do you want to be a programmer or do you want to be a computer janitor? If you want to be a code janitor, go for CS. If you want to be a computer janitor, go for IT.

What????? Maybe in bizarro world.

HTML is not a programming language and neither is AJAX or CSS.

Probably meant C# or VB.NET or C++/CLI (or F# or Boo or ...)

I thought we were talking about programming languages.

Haskell, C#

This is just a sad thread.

If you want a job in America, they'll have heard of Oxford but not Imperial.

(And that's just my mindframe because all my british coworkers are working in America :))

Is anyone else using IE?

Well, what you need to know depends on what you're selling. My brother's in this field and he didn't enter with any particular kind of IT-specific knowledge, but he's definitely learned some things....

And... how do you plan to make money....

http://blog.uncool.in/2009/01/19/computer-science-fail-higher-education-in-india/

This explains, like, everything.

Yawn.

Certifications? If you want to be a certified moron. A BS in Comp Sci is more than enough certification unless you got it from Bob Jones University.

DavidT, if I received your resume, what would...

I don't think anybody has done that.

You shouldn't think about the average pay level, you should think about what you'll be paid.

Don't listen to jbennet's nonsense. Top schools' admissions departments do their admissions in ignorance of students' need for financial aid, although some schools don't offer financial aid to...

So, in simple terms, what is extreme programming all about?

It's probably quite hard to get a job like that. And the idea that such a job would have any meaningful relation to the IT field is laughable.

Not software development.

I have never heard of "SAP," other than as the name of a company whose U.S. headquarters are in Newtown Square, PA, so I would just ignore whatever punjabivirsa3 is trying to say.

There's nothing insane about writing a parser.

1. What is your title?
"Software Engineer"
2. What are your responsibilities?
Anything that has to do with writing code, designing code, fixing code, and figuring out bugs exhibited at customers,...

pdftex can make PDF documents.

I guess I would like to clarify by saying, yes, of course it's possible. But no, I don't know how to do it through some easy configuration that I feel like explaining. (And I don't know why anybody...

Yes

I think about what additional knowledge I need in order to understand.

Here's one opinion: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html

You can find out what it supports by reading 7zip's website.

My first program was a spreadsheet, but after that it was exclusively calculators for a while. There was TI-83 basic and TI-89 basic, both of which were sucky languages, but eventually I escaped to...

What's with the color fetish?

I'm going to tear into this paragraph as if I wanted to hurt your feelings, because I think it's very bad.


Cell phones are technologically advancing everyday...

It's assigning an uninitialized FILE* to another value? There's something wrong with that picture. Anyway, it looks like the yyin member is of type std::basic_istream<char, struct...

Perhaps you could use the Spirit parser combinator library instead.

Generally speaking, it's whichever algorithm takes the most advantage of hardware. For example, people pretend that bucket sort takes linear time, but it really takes O((n+k) log k) time, where k is...