What are the possible pitfalls of my new life plan? [more inside]
posted by SinisterPurpose on May 4, 2009 - 22 answers

An overly romantic person in a non-romantic world... help! [more inside]
posted by curagea on Aug 24, 2008 - 28 answers

Comp Sci: What's the best Design Pattern or structure for dealing with a complex relationship between many booleans? [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Sep 25, 2007 - 34 answers

What is the next step for a soon-to-be graduate of a large school in Pittsburgh, PA who has degrees in both Computer Science and Japanese? [more inside]
posted by EduTek on Aug 23, 2007 - 4 answers

Can anyone recommend a book (or online equivalent) that teaches the theory and practice of writing compilers, specifically those targeting the Microsoft CLR (ie .Net)? [more inside]
posted by Luddite on Aug 18, 2007 - 18 answers

Tell me about being a junior programmer at a hedge fund. [more inside]
posted by jobby on May 7, 2007 - 6 answers

Given two unsorted lists, size N and M (N < M), how long [ O (???) ] and how much storage [ O (???) ] would be required to find elements in common between N and M (the number of common elements could range from 0 to N)? How would you go about doing this? [more inside]
posted by langeNU on Mar 27, 2007 - 29 answers

I'm trying to come up with a reading list for a "personal comp. sci. degree" (along the lines of Josh Kaufman's "personal MBA" reading list). What books should be on my list? [more inside]
posted by jacobian on Nov 6, 2006 - 33 answers

I'm a competent self-taught programmer with zero commercial experience and no relevant qualifications. How do I go about getting my first job? [more inside]
posted by cillit bang on Sep 6, 2006 - 17 answers

I'm doing some research for a paper about the ways in which computer science has been coping with program complexity throughout its short yet interesting history, and I'm worrying I might have overlooked some fundamental developments. [more inside]
posted by koenie on Aug 16, 2005 - 10 answers