I hope you realize you can talk about Windows, you will probably just get trashed...

i haven't been on this chan in a while.
but in case you should you ever visit this thread again-- this is really impressive work. top job!

{Paderborn, Karlsruhe, ...}

If you're migrating from Windows, you might want to start with something easier than Arch/Manjaro.
Kubuntu is surprisingly fast compared to Ubuntu.
Sabayon is probably a better solution than Manjaro though, since it's much easier but you get a lot of the same benefits.

>>692
CentOs or Scientific Linux
If it's good enough for CERN and Fortune 100 companies, it's good enough for you.

If you love breaking things and fixing them every week, you'll love Arch, but for the real world, it's useless.

As for starting Linux, use Ubuntu or Mint to start out. Use Arch in a VirtualBox first until you are comfortable with it.

Also, as an Arch person: Don't use Manjaro. They may be based on Arch but they lag behind by days to months and just because we have the Arch User Repository and some of that works on Manjaro as well, don't expect everything to work. Arch has a huge wiki, as well as an active and helpful community on both reddit and IRC.

As for RedHat / CentOS / Scientific Linux: That stuff is great for servers, but SELinux (which is by default activated) is a big hindrance in learning Linux. Thus, not recommended as the first Linux you touch.

Lets trace through what you do.

int x=0, y=0;
cin >> x >> y;

You get two inputs and store them in ints. x is the first one, y is the second.

for (int val=x; val <= y; val++)

You loop from x up to y. What will happen if x is bigger than y? `val <= y` will be false and the loop won't run.

cout << y-- << endl;

You decrement `y` and print it out. You're changing `y` and `val` together, so that `val <= y` becomes false twice as quickly as you expect.

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Kind of late, but I may be helping somebody with this.

As far as I can tell, you're only required to take two numbers and print those two numbers. Your program is not only changing the values of the two numbers, but is using a loop to do so repeatedly, which is not only unnecessary but problematic, even dangerous if working with important data.

I'm not going to point out the problems with the loop because a loop is entirely unnecessary. The task can be done with just the two integers and a control statement.

int main()
{
int x=0, y=0;
/*
cout << "Enter two numbers: ";
Giving prompts to the user is a good idea if you want other people to know how to use your program.
*/
cin >> x >> y;

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If you just care about getting a decent job, get a degree in software engineering or programming. If you want to build a serious career and have any chance of working at Google, get a degree in Computer Science and really learn the math. A double major in CS and Math would be your best bet, but isn't necessary. Be aware that Computer Engineering is usually more hardware than software, don't get tricked into doing that.

Most importantly, write code. For any classes that don't give you a final project to demonstrate what you learned, make your own. Put all the code on github and put a link on your resume. If you use an open source tool, find its github page and make a contribution. A good portfolio is way more important than a degree.

I have to say that I agree that going to college is important for being a good software developer. Make sure your program will cover multiple programming languages (ones that aren't just object oriented are a big plus), algorithm analysis, discrete math, and databases. For undergrad a security focus isn't super necessary, but a databases or web design class that cover SQL injection is great.

I graduated with a math degree and CS minor, and I'm currently working at a tech company in the bay area. My internships were super helpful, as were career fairs. Make sure you apply to a lot of companies, for interview experience if nothing else. Start early so you know what to expect.

I looked a little at UCF and UF, they both seem to have good CS programs. If you get into UF, you'll have to decide between the engineering college and the college of arts and letters. Either should be fine, but the engineering one would be a little easier to sell. Try to take a course in data structures as early as you can, since it's pretty fundamental to writing good code rather than code that just works.

I didn't see any courses at UF about programming languages, so make sure you get experience in a few if you go there. I'd recommend Java/C#, Ruby/Python, and SQL at a minimum. Something low level like C/C++ and something functional like Lisp/Scheme/Erlang would be good too.

I can save you a lot of time and trouble:

Read the following statements and tick the box next to the correct answer.
int a = 10;
int b = 20;
a = b;
The new values of a and b are:
[ ] a = 20 b = 0
[ ] a = 20 b = 20
[ ] a = 0 b = 10
[ ] a = 10 b = 10
[ ] a = 30 b = 20
[ ] a = 30 b = 0
[ ] a = 10 b = 30
[ ] a = 0 b = 30

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UF is a good school, I am a math student there currently and was computer science as well until getting destroyed by Computer Organization and Design. The hardware stuff was just beyond my comprehension.

So, OP, be prepared for a hardware class or two, even if you are in the software program. UF doesn't have classes for specific programming languages, the class will have a task or role and you will learn a relevant language if it's not in C/C++/Java which you are expected to know from the introductory course sequence.

>>721

If I have a math degree and no computer science minor, what kind of developer certifications would I be looking at as an equivalent? I can code as well as most comp sci students but won't be able to complete the minor in time.

>>745
Honestly, certification is really unimportant. It's much better to have a link to a github and/or stackoverflow account and be able to say "here is something I've done". If you haven't done any projects outside of school, look into contributing to open source projects (admittedly, that's pretty hard to do if you don't already know them pretty well).

But really, you'll be able to find work just with a bit of school experience if you try hard enough. You won't get your dream job, but a few years experience with industry programming and no one will give a damn what you majored in.

Plug in laptop in public places, leech their electricity for mining.

Alternatively, just use real money.

Here's a short version:
-patterns are overrated, singleton & factory are bad.
-C# is pretty nice, but use Win forms, not WPF.
-Effective C# is out-dated but good.
-LINQ is awesome, but you need to know functional programming to really take advantage of it
-consider using D instead of C#, since it's more powerful and has better cross-platform support

>>717
nice

>>717
I love O'Reillys books because they are thick, doesn't have these preposterous claims about learning something in 24 hours, doesn't have condescending illustrations and doesn't have ADHD-inducing covers.

Who has their code work the first time?

Anyway, it *is* a good skill to be able to trace through your program as if you were the Python interpreter. Mentally set watchpoints (places where you check a variable's value), run through iterations of a for loop, mentally test edge cases based on the function you're implementing as well as your implementation. In other words, on exams you still go through an abbreviated testing and debugging cycle, using your brain as the computer. Also, being able to do that will help loads in technical interviews.

Do they give you scratch paper for exams or are they asseholes?

if you're not allowed to search online and use an IDE i wouldn't take this too seriously, unless it is just a fizzbuzz kind task.
if you want to work as a programmer you mostly just need a portfolio of some cool things you made.
it seems most people who finish CS can't code shit so companies don't care too much about courses and certificates.

Real programmers can write LISP in any language. Even if it means implementing TCO and Call-With-Current-Continuation by hand.

Hey there anon. I've never hired off of these sites, but I've looked at them for jobs:
http://indeed.com
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/

I don't know if there are fees to pay or anything, but indeed seems to take a lot of cross-listings.

Other than that, if you know some C.S. students, we're generally looking for work to build up our portfolios, but depending on where you're asking, you may get shite quality.

GL

Http:\\www.dice.Com is a good place to look as well!

Read this before you hire anyone: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-phone-screen-questions

Where are you located?

Step 1: Know how to write the code you need written yourself.

Step 2: Ask your applicants to solve a problem in whatever language you need them to write in a coding interview to last not longer than 1 hour.

Step 3: If they pass the coding interview, hire them.

Step 3 will take you a while to get to, as finding good programmers is a hard task indeed.

> COBOL
Please don't learn this dead language. There's going to be a few maintenance jobs, but the worst you could do for yourself would be to get one. You will be digging through the most horrible code to fix a crisis with bankers breathing down your neck. If you're paying for this, get out.

I do have to say, LinkedIn isn't awful for finding work (think of it as an online resume), but it's really sketchy that they won't help you look for a job. Writing a resume is a skill, and not something you'll get right on your first try. If you want to develop easy software, learn Ruby on Rails and some basic SQL instead of COBOL. You won't get paid as well, but you also won't want to tear your brain out.

You arenˋt giving a lot of details here about your application. What is the ˋuser dataˋ that you are trying to protect? The best way to keep code private is to only use binaries and to use code obfuscation. Aside from that, you say itˋs a web application, so maybe do a web search on ˋweb application securityˋ.

Any user data that doesn't need to be reproduced (eg passwords) use a secure hashing algorithm (bcrypt or pbkdf2). Anything you do need to reproduce (eg names, emails, credit card numbers) encrypt with a secure encryption algorithm (AES). Use libraries that already have these written and DO NOT right the algorithms yourself.

Securing code that is going to run in the browser is impossible. Anything that you wouldn't open source needs to run on your server and only send the results back to the client. Do not rely on anything coming from the client as being correct.

Minimize the number of places your app receives data. Test every input with good data, bad data, random garbage, malicious data, and if possible open source that code and ask for feedback from StackExchange.

As for the physical set up, do not store anything that you wouldn't make public anywhere but a server that you physically control. Keep it behind locked doors in a secure building. The USA is probably the best place to keep it unless you'll be running up against the law, in which case a Nordic country might be safer.

Do be safe against physical takedowns, you want a distributed system. Use something like AWS to get everything on a lot of servers. Ideally, you could run it on clients, like bittorrent or tor.

This advice is very contradictory. You have to make the tradeoffs about what kind of security you need and what is possible based on your application. A distributed system without identification works really well for bittorrent but would be awful for facebook. All-data encryption is great for the military, but overkill for an imageboard. Without knowing what you want to do, it's impossible to give any real advice.

If you are really going to make money off of this, pay an expert and give them an NDA. If you aren't able to invest in the idea, get venture capital after you make a prototype. And remember two things: you'll never be 100% secure, and an insecure product that exists is infinitely more valuable than a secure one that doesn't.

Hi anon, you have two problems. The first is that, as you've probably noticed, your loop isn't getting executed.

The second problem is that you have some pointer/value-pointed-to confusion.

Try opening up your program in gdb and `define` the macro:
stepi
info reg
x/20i memset32
to step through memset32.

Fix your fucking memset you goon

>at&t syntax

Anyway OP you're telling your memset to copy a dword instead of a byte.

Why not use SSE (Streaming SIMD)? set 256 bits at a time.

I mean, they are giving us this great tool... why not use it?

I'm sorry, OP, but what do you want? You say you're at a crappy school, but is that really your problem? It might help to think about what you *have* done in your career so far (projects, fascinating articles, etc.) and build on that.

I encourage CS students to take part in open source software projects. It can be somewhat intimidating to get immersed in a codebase that's been around for some time, but you should look at commit logs. The dates between choosing to make a feature and finally implmenting it can be a month or more apart. My point is that you can take your time and focus on the important things like communicating with people and designing programs.

>>708
I just want to add under the heading of "General Computer Scientist Shit"
- Algorithm design
- running time analysis and (disk-,memory-)space analysis
- how to use a debugger

There's more, but you should be able to calculate the big-O of an algorithm without excessive difficulty.