Derferman

As a CS major at Berkeley, this is not the case. As the above poster said, the curriculum varies widely depending on the college.

I went to college with the student who drew all these illustrations. The white boards in the computer science department were always covered with her awesome artwork. Since she graduated, the boards are much more boring.

She also was the creative mind behind our year-long animation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCHivuaQhQY

I would love to see some benchmarks against c and c++.

Hey, what are you doing on Hacker News, we have a midterm to study for!

I am currently an undergrad at Berkeley. I really like the current structure of our computer science program. We start in Scheme for Intro to CS, move to Java for data structures, and finish with C and MIPS for machine structures. After that, the upper division courses are either C++/Java/Python.

The problem I see with a setup like this is piracy. It only takes one person to pay $0.25 and put the text up on github/scribd/pastie or any of the hundreds of services available.

Just switched my personal website from Wordpress over to GitHub pages using Jekyll. So far, so good.

I took CS61A with one of the authors of the book, Brian Harvey (CS61A is the introductory computer science course here at Berkeley). While I loved the class and enjoyed having Harvey as my professor, I found Simply Scheme a bit too limited and simplistic. SICP covers more material in greater detail.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

FogBugz does it the right way. 45 day free trial with no payment info up front. After those days are up, they ask you for payment info.

I was pleasantly surprised when dragging a Youtube link into the drop area worked exactly as I had hoped. The video even downloaded in 1280 x 720. The next time I need a video off Youtube, Evom will be the app I use.

I just canceled my account. I am afraid that even though they anonymize the data, personal details may still be present. When AOL accidentally released their "anonymized" search data, the same thing happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal

I just found Smultron, and I love it.

http://tuppis.com/smultron/

So to get buzz I have to post hidden links, tweet sensational headlines, and lie to popular blogs?

Count me out.

I discovered this bookmarklet a few months ago and haven't looked back since. It makes reading the web so much easier on the eyes.

I currently use DD to turn a 7 yr. old router into a wireless repeater bridge for my house. We haven't had any problems with the setup for the entire year we have been in the house.

The new geolocation feature is creepily accurate. This page found my exact location.

http://channy.creation.net/project/firefox/geolocation.html

On the computer animation front, I am currently finishing up work with my group on our animation, Rumble in the Roses. We should have our final, rendered short done in a week or so.

http://cloud.cs.berkeley.edu/~cnm190/roses/

As previously mentioned in the thread, a wget --mirror http://www.geocities.com/my/path will save your site.

I think many of us fall into the same boat. I know that as a younger child, I loved to build with blocks, Legos, and Knex. While my tools have changed, it is the same desire to build that gets me excited about programming.

I play ultimate here at school, which entails three practices a week. I find that if I don't exercise on a weekly basis, I become easily irritable.