So, IntelliJ is pretty fuckin awesome. Using it for my AS3/Flex stuff and it is so refreshing to work in a non-eclipse variant IDE. These refactor tools are pretty damn sweet. Don't like that long if/else statement, 1-click to turn it into a switch/case, oh yeah. The built-in git tool simply works as intended, beautiful.
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So, IntelliJ is pretty fuckin awesome. Using it for my AS3/Flex stuff and it is so refreshing to work in a non-eclipse variant IDE. These refactor tools are pretty damn sweet. Don't like that long if/else statement, 1-click to turn it into a switch/case, oh yeah. The built-in git tool simply works as intended, beautiful.
Agreed, I was using IDEA 7 at my last position and I liked it quite a lot. The refactor tools are nice, middle-clicking to go to a function declaration is awesome, and the Clover plugin we used for code coverage worked great as well.
So, IntelliJ is pretty fuckin awesome. Using it for my AS3/Flex stuff and it is so refreshing to work in a non-eclipse variant IDE. These refactor tools are pretty damn sweet. Don't like that long if/else statement, 1-click to turn it into a switch/case, oh yeah. The built-in git tool simply works as intended, beautiful.
Eclipse makes me want to do real violence sometimes. Using it for Java EE work is horrible (I've had the JSP editor get stuck in some kind of infinite parsing loop and crash just from typing the initial quote to an HTML attribute value). And it's just slow and uses like a gig of RAM, apparently to no effect because did I mention it was slow?
I'm pretty close to switching to netbeans, except I can't seem to stop it from copying libraries into the project directory and the font-rendering on a Mac is eye-gouging horrible.
Or you could subtract the character '0'. Since the Unicode digits for '0' through '9' are consecutive, '1' - '0' is 1:
int sum = x.charAt(i)-'0'+y.charAt(i)-'0';
Oh I really like that one.
It's nice and all (though not sure I would do it that way in Java) but you do understand why it works, right?
I would also add that while it's not entirely uncommon and I can't think of a course at uni that didn't have some lab work that didn't rely on a property like this (see also upper and lowercase letters), I find it uncomfortably close to using magic numbers - in this case, it isn't necessarily such a thing because IIRC it's a property of the Unicode standards.
It's also a little hard, or confusing to read (not excessively so). Sure, it's short to type, but you're sacrificing clarity for brevity. It's only a minor thing in a project such as this but it's a good idea to get into a habit of writing clear code, rather than the code that takes the fewest number of keystrokes.
There's also the issue that it won't complain if you give it non-numeric symbols: it'll just give you a nonsense answer, which could make bugs harder to detect.
Yeah, these things are why I said I probably wouldn't do this way in Java. There are just better, more readable ways to do it.
C, though? I'll subtract ASCII codes until the cows come home.
Oh, and uh, the code as-is only takes a number 0-9. I don't remember if that's what the poster wanted originally.
Or you could subtract the character '0'. Since the Unicode digits for '0' through '9' are consecutive, '1' - '0' is 1:
int sum = x.charAt(i)-'0'+y.charAt(i)-'0';
Oh I really like that one.
It's nice and all (though not sure I would do it that way in Java) but you do understand why it works, right?
I would also add that while it's not entirely uncommon and I can't think of a course at uni that didn't have some lab work that didn't rely on a property like this (see also upper and lowercase letters), I find it uncomfortably close to using magic numbers - in this case, it isn't necessarily such a thing because IIRC it's a property of the Unicode standards.
It's also a little hard, or confusing to read (not excessively so). Sure, it's short to type, but you're sacrificing clarity for brevity. It's only a minor thing in a project such as this but it's a good idea to get into a habit of writing clear code, rather than the code that takes the fewest number of keystrokes.
Yeh, I prefaced it with a pretty long comment explaining wtf I was doing.
I swear my code is like, 2/3'rds comments. I'm paranoid my prof is going to think I cut and pasted off the internet, witty/sarcastic comments sort of preclude that.
The method's only called from inside a if (input.matches(ridiculous regex)) so I'm pretty damn sure there's only numbers involved. Even so I should probably mention in the javadoc of the method that it doesn't do any input checks and will silently return gibberish.
These are the sort of things I don't think about because I'm a damn nooblet.
Also, yes, I'm only dealing with 1-9 because it's a method that takes two stings of digit and returns their sum as a string. I had to write it because A) I needed to keep it as a string, and They could potentially be ludicrously long, like 50, 100 digits or something.
You know, since I've finished and turn it in, I may as well link the homework itself, so you can mock me for going about it completely the wrong way.
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Also, yes, I'm only dealing with 1-9 because it's a method that takes two stings of digit and returns their sum as a string. I had to write it because A) I needed to keep it as a string, and They could potentially be ludicrously long, like 50, 100 digits or something.
You know, since I've finished and turn it in, I may as well link the homework itself, so you can mock me for going about it completely the wrong way.
Hmmmm.....
I apologise in advance - it appears that I may be the bearer of bad news.
But maybe I'm misunderstanding the homework question. Weren't you meant to store the numbers as binary strings (as opposed to decimals strings)? A doubly linked list, no less (as opposed to a character string).
So I probably would have expected the multiply/add/divide/subtract to only have to deal with 1s and 0s instead of 0-9s...
Edit: Ahh. What you posted was a private utility function, so maybe you implement the add() by calling the toString() to get the decimal representation first?
Personally? Ruby. Python does a few things that irritate the every-living shit out of me.
But it's mostly down to personal taste. They're closely comparable and I wouldn't say one is objectively much better than the other for most tasks.
I would like to know these things.
My python experience greatly outweighs my ruby experience.
Off the top of my head:
- The scoping: used to be beyond retarded. Long since fixed, but I dealt with python extensively when it had the old rules and it left a bad taste in my mouth. I ended up becoming a Perl guy because of its shitty scoping, at the time.
- The underscores errywhere: __foobar__ is ugly as hell and a pain to type.
- The lack of blocks: hurts DSL support hugely, and I'm a huge fan of DSLs. It's also weird about closures, its list comprehensions are fairly limited, and in general its support for functional paradigms is half-assed and bolted on.
- From above: Reasonably hostile to functional programming styles in favor of imperative. More or less a product of the There's Only One Way To Do It philosophy.
- Lack of conditional postfixes. sometimes it's really nice to say "x = 10 if y > 3" rather than spit out a multi-line conditional.
- The lack of proper private, protected, etc visibility declarations. Yeah, you can use two underscores (ugh). Which gives you a shitty exception about the method not existing (double ugh). In 2.6 or 3 you can mark private with annotations, which I also don't like (see next item).
- The @whatever annotations. Too many bad flashbacks to enterprise Java development.
- The whitespace thing. Yeah, any good programmer indents anyway. I still hit way more copy-paste problems than not having to type "end" is worth.
- Regexps aren't a true language construct. I don't like passing a string to re.search as much as /[foo]/ being a first-class language construct.
- Mandatory ()'s errywhere. Hostile to DSLs, but DSLs are a product of a TMTOWTDI philosophy, and I fundamentally don't like the Python community's hostility to TMTOWTDI.
- Explicit self in method defs: A Modula-2-ism that Guido picked up. It should have died with Modula-2. Waste of typing.
- super() is super broken: see here. It's wayyy too easy to end up in a very confusing place trying to use what should be a very simple mechanism.
- single item in a tuple syntax: (1,). Seriously, this is ridiculous and not even "pythonic".
But, again, it's not a bad language and I don't mean to offend its fans. It's just not for me in the way that Ruby is.
I agree with a lot of this.
Especially the ___ and __ notations. What the fuck is up with that?
So programming has always been something I'm into. I've taken classes, looked at a lot of stuff on my own, etc. However I still feel like I have like 0 experience under my belt, which is the case. I always quit partway through a project and I want to stop doing that. My language of choice is C#. I'm wondering are there any resources for I guess, intermediate concepts? I know the basics and have worked with other languages, but never really getting past what you'd find in most intro to books. I guess what might be the most useful is maybe a list of ideas that would be a learning exercise for someone who knows the concepts, but just hasn't put it into enough practice.
I'm willing to put in the time to learn new things, that's not the issue, it's just my own ideas tend to either be too easy or too daunting.
C# 3.0 in a Nutshell has been great for me. It's more of a reference than a guide, but it's good about explaining things in clear detail.
You could do like I did. I made a DNS client, then built an HTTP client on top of that, then built a feed reader on top of that.
Looks like C# 4.0 in a Nutshell is out now as well, and has good reviews. I may very well pick it up as it definitely seems like something I'm looking for.
So programming has always been something I'm into. I've taken classes, looked at a lot of stuff on my own, etc. However I still feel like I have like 0 experience under my belt, which is the case. I always quit partway through a project and I want to stop doing that. My language of choice is C#. I'm wondering are there any resources for I guess, intermediate concepts? I know the basics and have worked with other languages, but never really getting past what you'd find in most intro to books. I guess what might be the most useful is maybe a list of ideas that would be a learning exercise for someone who knows the concepts, but just hasn't put it into enough practice.
I'm willing to put in the time to learn new things, that's not the issue, it's just my own ideas tend to either be too easy or too daunting.
C# 3.0 in a Nutshell has been great for me. It's more of a reference than a guide, but it's good about explaining things in clear detail.
You could do like I did. I made a DNS client, then built an HTTP client on top of that, then built a feed reader on top of that.
Looks like C# 4.0 in a Nutshell is out now as well, and has good reviews. I may very well pick it up as it definitely seems like something I'm looking for.
A good example of why it's a good book is the threading section. It starts out by telling you how to do threading safely, rather than toss it out there and hope you read a page of warnings at the end.
And I don't know if it's .NET or the book, but everything is so clear. I've never had to little trouble understanding a programming book. It's actually enjoyable to read.
So programming has always been something I'm into. I've taken classes, looked at a lot of stuff on my own, etc. However I still feel like I have like 0 experience under my belt, which is the case. I always quit partway through a project and I want to stop doing that. My language of choice is C#. I'm wondering are there any resources for I guess, intermediate concepts? I know the basics and have worked with other languages, but never really getting past what you'd find in most intro to books. I guess what might be the most useful is maybe a list of ideas that would be a learning exercise for someone who knows the concepts, but just hasn't put it into enough practice.
I'm willing to put in the time to learn new things, that's not the issue, it's just my own ideas tend to either be too easy or too daunting.
C# 3.0 in a Nutshell has been great for me. It's more of a reference than a guide, but it's good about explaining things in clear detail.
You could do like I did. I made a DNS client, then built an HTTP client on top of that, then built a feed reader on top of that.
Looks like C# 4.0 in a Nutshell is out now as well, and has good reviews. I may very well pick it up as it definitely seems like something I'm looking for.
A good example of why it's a good book is the threading section. It starts out by telling you how to do threading safely, rather than toss it out there and hope you read a page of warnings at the end.
And I don't know if it's .NET or the book, but everything is so clear. I've never had to little trouble understanding a programming book. It's actually enjoyable to read.
I'm sold, definitely seems like it is worth it to pick up.
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Okay so this is the only place I used that stringAdd method. As you can see this only comes up when I'm converting Binary back to Decimal:
@Override
public String toString(){
String answer = "0";
if (this.head.isOne){
BigInt copy = new BigInt(this);
copy.invert();
return "-" + copy.toString();
} else {
Digit here = this.head;
while (here != null){
//multiply answer by 2
answer = stringAdd(answer, answer);
//Add 1 if here is 1
if (here.isOne){answer = stringAdd(answer, "1");}
//next bit
here = here.next;
}
}
return answer;
}
Concerning fonts, I'm quite partial to Calibri, the font MS introduced for the UI in Vista and one of those Offices they make that I don't use.
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Okay, so, good spellchecking libraries are hard to find, and the dictionaries to go with them are even harder. I really don't want to have to do my own, does anyone have any good recommendations besides Aspell (urgh). A good plus is one that can take in MS Word dictionaries.
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Okay, so, good spellchecking libraries are hard to find, and the dictionaries to go with them are even harder. I really don't want to have to do my own, does anyone have any good recommendations besides Aspell (urgh). A good plus is one that can take in MS Word dictionaries.
Okay, so, good spellchecking libraries are hard to find, and the dictionaries to go with them are even harder. I really don't want to have to do my own, does anyone have any good recommendations besides Aspell (urgh). A good plus is one that can take in MS Word dictionaries.
Wouldn't OO.o's be free to use?
Something portable that doesn't require anything to be installed like MS Office, OO.o, etc. I need to be able to load .dic files from office (+ a few other medical oriented ones), but I don't want to install software to do it, which is why I was looking for a good spellcheck library. Aspell is the next best one I've found, but like any good open-source system it's documentation is like trying to swordfight with a starfish.
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Monkey Ball WarriorA collection of mediocre hatsSeattle, WARegistered Userregular
edited June 2010
Is eclipse bad? It's honestly all I know except visual studio, which I haven't used in many years. and I was doing it in vb.net, so. That in and of itself was painful.
There's a lot of really nice things in eclipse (autocomplete, little bubbles with the documentation of all the methods and stuff in the library), but I have no idea how prevalent that sort of thing is in other IDEs.
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Okay, so, good spellchecking libraries are hard to find, and the dictionaries to go with them are even harder. I really don't want to have to do my own, does anyone have any good recommendations besides Aspell (urgh). A good plus is one that can take in MS Word dictionaries.
Just store the entire dictionary as a space-delimited string, then use a regexp.
Ok, so I'm apparently going back to school to be a Computer Engineer. It's the closest thing to a Software Engineer type degree that they have at the local community college, and since it's free (the one good thing that came from the Dell fiasco), well, can't complain. From the little I know about Engineering, Computer Engineers are Software Engineers with a bit of extra focus on embedded systems, but I'm sure Intro to Engineering in the fall will fix me of that delusion.
The 2 languages they teach are C++ and Turbo Pascal. I've taken both before, 8 years ago, and don't remember a damned word.
The Turbo Pascal book is the exact same one that I used 9 years ago when I had the class at a different community college.
I'm so screwed.
Thank god it's just for 2 years, and then I'm going to look into transferring to a 4 year.
Ranting aside -- I'm trying to force myself to learn Objective C and it's just not clicking -- is it just me or do they use really odd terms for OOP stuff?
Anyway, computer engineering is a lot of different things to a lot of different folks. At my alma mater it is a cross between CS and EE, basically.
Then about 2.5 years in all the CompE's realize no one agrees on what the hell "computer engineering" is and then switch to either EE or CS.
Anyway, realize it's not about the languages, it's about the concepts, knuckle down, study hard, and get out of there with a kick-ass GPA so you can transfer somewhere nice and with your credits intact.
Then about 2.5 years in all the CompE's realize no one agrees on what the hell "computer engineering" is and then switch to either EE or CS.
That's definitely the impression I'm getting. I was worried I was just being ignorant.
Back the first time around, in 2001, when I was doing the community college thing in Yakima, 95% of the CS majors jumped ship to EE after some new professor took over CS and turned it into "IT" -- aka, "MOUS Certification".
Is eclipse bad? It's honestly all I know except visual studio, which I haven't used in many years. and I was doing it in vb.net, so. That in and of itself was painful.
There's a lot of really nice things in eclipse (autocomplete, little bubbles with the documentation of all the methods and stuff in the library), but I have no idea how prevalent that sort of thing is in other IDEs.
Visual Studio has had those for as long as I can remember.
Okay, so, good spellchecking libraries are hard to find, and the dictionaries to go with them are even harder. I really don't want to have to do my own, does anyone have any good recommendations besides Aspell (urgh). A good plus is one that can take in MS Word dictionaries.
Just store the entire dictionary as a space-delimited string, then use a regexp.
(This is a joke answer)
You'd think it'd be, but that was one of the solutions, or very similar to it.
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Then about 2.5 years in all the CompE's realize no one agrees on what the hell "computer engineering" is and then switch to either EE or CS.
That's definitely the impression I'm getting. I was worried I was just being ignorant.
Back the first time around, in 2001, when I was doing the community college thing in Yakima, 95% of the CS majors jumped ship to EE after some new professor took over CS and turned it into "IT" -- aka, "MOUS Certification".
In hindsight, this was a "warning sign".
I graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in Computer Engineering. They actually have 2 different degrees (tracks), one for CS and one for EE. Both tracks focus on hardware and software, but there are a few more courses dedicated to the track you choose.
I really liked the courses I took. You'll learn a lot about EE as it relates to computer components as well as how to make the hardware talk to a computer through software.
Back the first time around, in 2001, when I was doing the community college thing in Yakima, 95% of the CS majors jumped ship to EE after some new professor took over CS and turned it into "IT" -- aka, "MOUS Certification".
This is one of the things that makes me go o_O
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Back the first time around, in 2001, when I was doing the community college thing in Yakima, 95% of the CS majors jumped ship to EE after some new professor took over CS and turned it into "IT" -- aka, "MOUS Certification".
This is one of the things that makes me go o_O
Basically YVCC had a Comp Sci department. It was ran by a member of the old guard -- the degree still had COBOL and FORTRAN in it, for example. A hotshot new woman showed up, heard his frequent jokes about retiring, basically said "what? Great, see you later", took over with some help of the dean, and ran the department into the ground so hard and fast that she had to flee the country afterwards. It was glorious. At least, it would have been, if I had been smart enough to move on.
But this is the programming thread, and not the "KiTA bitches about school" thread, so... Yeah. Going to try and force myself to learn some Objective C today, even though apparently going through the iApp store is a bad idea now.
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Does anyone know exactly what the "DX11 on 9" HAL layer supports? I know you can't do tessellation shaders, but what else is missing? I was almost positive everything but hull/domain shaders was supported, but for the life of me, I can't find anything on it.
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Agreed, I was using IDEA 7 at my last position and I liked it quite a lot. The refactor tools are nice, middle-clicking to go to a function declaration is awesome, and the Clover plugin we used for code coverage worked great as well.
Eclipse makes me want to do real violence sometimes. Using it for Java EE work is horrible (I've had the JSP editor get stuck in some kind of infinite parsing loop and crash just from typing the initial quote to an HTML attribute value). And it's just slow and uses like a gig of RAM, apparently to no effect because did I mention it was slow?
I'm pretty close to switching to netbeans, except I can't seem to stop it from copying libraries into the project directory and the font-rendering on a Mac is eye-gouging horrible.
Yeah, these things are why I said I probably wouldn't do this way in Java. There are just better, more readable ways to do it.
C, though? I'll subtract ASCII codes until the cows come home.
Oh, and uh, the code as-is only takes a number 0-9. I don't remember if that's what the poster wanted originally.
Yeh, I prefaced it with a pretty long comment explaining wtf I was doing.
I swear my code is like, 2/3'rds comments. I'm paranoid my prof is going to think I cut and pasted off the internet, witty/sarcastic comments sort of preclude that.
The method's only called from inside a if (input.matches(ridiculous regex)) so I'm pretty damn sure there's only numbers involved. Even so I should probably mention in the javadoc of the method that it doesn't do any input checks and will silently return gibberish.
These are the sort of things I don't think about because I'm a damn nooblet.
Also, yes, I'm only dealing with 1-9 because it's a method that takes two stings of digit and returns their sum as a string. I had to write it because A) I needed to keep it as a string, and
You know, since I've finished and turn it in, I may as well link the homework itself, so you can mock me for going about it completely the wrong way.
Hmmmm.....
I apologise in advance - it appears that I may be the bearer of bad news.
But maybe I'm misunderstanding the homework question. Weren't you meant to store the numbers as binary strings (as opposed to decimals strings)? A doubly linked list, no less (as opposed to a character string).
So I probably would have expected the multiply/add/divide/subtract to only have to deal with 1s and 0s instead of 0-9s...
Edit: Ahh. What you posted was a private utility function, so maybe you implement the add() by calling the toString() to get the decimal representation first?
I'm not kidding. Non-threatening or something I guess?
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I agree with a lot of this.
Especially the ___ and __ notations. What the fuck is up with that?
Looks like C# 4.0 in a Nutshell is out now as well, and has good reviews. I may very well pick it up as it definitely seems like something I'm looking for.
A good example of why it's a good book is the threading section. It starts out by telling you how to do threading safely, rather than toss it out there and hope you read a page of warnings at the end.
And I don't know if it's .NET or the book, but everything is so clear. I've never had to little trouble understanding a programming book. It's actually enjoyable to read.
I'm sold, definitely seems like it is worth it to pick up.
Is there even an organization that regulates this?
If there was they are doing a terrible job.
@Override public String toString(){ String answer = "0"; if (this.head.isOne){ BigInt copy = new BigInt(this); copy.invert(); return "-" + copy.toString(); } else { Digit here = this.head; while (here != null){ //multiply answer by 2 answer = stringAdd(answer, answer); //Add 1 if here is 1 if (here.isOne){answer = stringAdd(answer, "1");} //next bit here = here.next; } } return answer; }Concerning fonts, I'm quite partial to Calibri, the font MS introduced for the UI in Vista and one of those Offices they make that I don't use.
Wouldn't OO.o's be free to use?
Something portable that doesn't require anything to be installed like MS Office, OO.o, etc. I need to be able to load .dic files from office (+ a few other medical oriented ones), but I don't want to install software to do it, which is why I was looking for a good spellcheck library. Aspell is the next best one I've found, but like any good open-source system it's documentation is like trying to swordfight with a starfish.
It would be the king if it, and the associated website, didn't look like some leftover vomit from the late 90's.
And eat RAM like a fat girl at all you can eat icecream day
Still beats the hell out of Eclipse, though
Why would a fat girl be eating RAM when there's a lot of ice cream around? Or are you saying it doesn't use much RAM for that reason?
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There's a lot of really nice things in eclipse (autocomplete, little bubbles with the documentation of all the methods and stuff in the library), but I have no idea how prevalent that sort of thing is in other IDEs.
DDR3 tastes like Neapolitan
(This is a joke answer)
Ok, so I'm apparently going back to school to be a Computer Engineer. It's the closest thing to a Software Engineer type degree that they have at the local community college, and since it's free (the one good thing that came from the Dell fiasco), well, can't complain. From the little I know about Engineering, Computer Engineers are Software Engineers with a bit of extra focus on embedded systems, but I'm sure Intro to Engineering in the fall will fix me of that delusion.
The 2 languages they teach are C++ and Turbo Pascal. I've taken both before, 8 years ago, and don't remember a damned word.
The Turbo Pascal book is the exact same one that I used 9 years ago when I had the class at a different community college.
I'm so screwed.
Thank god it's just for 2 years, and then I'm going to look into transferring to a 4 year.
Ranting aside -- I'm trying to force myself to learn Objective C and it's just not clicking -- is it just me or do they use really odd terms for OOP stuff?
Anyway, computer engineering is a lot of different things to a lot of different folks. At my alma mater it is a cross between CS and EE, basically.
Then about 2.5 years in all the CompE's realize no one agrees on what the hell "computer engineering" is and then switch to either EE or CS.
Anyway, realize it's not about the languages, it's about the concepts, knuckle down, study hard, and get out of there with a kick-ass GPA so you can transfer somewhere nice and with your credits intact.
Maybe I can make the next one of these threads?
writeln('Programming thread');That's definitely the impression I'm getting. I was worried I was just being ignorant.
Back the first time around, in 2001, when I was doing the community college thing in Yakima, 95% of the CS majors jumped ship to EE after some new professor took over CS and turned it into "IT" -- aka, "MOUS Certification".
In hindsight, this was a "warning sign".
Visual Studio has had those for as long as I can remember.
You'd think it'd be, but that was one of the solutions, or very similar to it.
I graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in Computer Engineering. They actually have 2 different degrees (tracks), one for CS and one for EE. Both tracks focus on hardware and software, but there are a few more courses dedicated to the track you choose.
I really liked the courses I took. You'll learn a lot about EE as it relates to computer components as well as how to make the hardware talk to a computer through software.
This is one of the things that makes me go o_O
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Basically YVCC had a Comp Sci department. It was ran by a member of the old guard -- the degree still had COBOL and FORTRAN in it, for example. A hotshot new woman showed up, heard his frequent jokes about retiring, basically said "what? Great, see you later", took over with some help of the dean, and ran the department into the ground so hard and fast that she had to flee the country afterwards. It was glorious. At least, it would have been, if I had been smart enough to move on.
But this is the programming thread, and not the "KiTA bitches about school" thread, so... Yeah. Going to try and force myself to learn some Objective C today, even though apparently going through the iApp store is a bad idea now.