Most companies are ready to negotiate salaries. Hopefully, you enter your Senior year with some idea of what you’ll be doing after you graduate. If you are not applying to grad schools, you’ll want to start applying everywhere you can for full time positions. Attend job fairs, search online, and talk to friends who already…Continue Reading What I Wish I Knew as a Computer Science Senior
Your Junior year is the year to start making decisions. You’ve had two years to become a decent programmer and be exposed to a few different areas of computing. If you were lucky, you had the chance to gain some work experience in a lab or during an internship. If not, this is the year…Continue Reading What I Wish I Knew as a Computer Science Junior
Learn Semantics over Syntax. As a sophomore you will be moving on from introductory programming classes. You will probably be learning about basic data structures and object-oriented design, although you may not be taking many electives yet. Remember that your toolbox of coding concepts is language agnostic. This means that mastery in a single language…Continue Reading What I Wish I Knew as a Computer Science Sophomore
It’s as difficult as people say, but it’s more rewarding than they know. I met my future wife my freshman year of college. She told me that when her father heard I was majoring in computer science, he wondered whether I would stick with the major. He hadn’t met me yet, but he knew that…Continue Reading What I Wish I Knew as a Computer Science Freshman