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Like it or not you're living in it – this is the Digital Age. Computer programmes have all but infiltrated every aspect of our lives. Computer scientists theorise, design, develop, and apply the software and hardware for the programmes we use day in day out – sounds pretty important to us. 2. Computer science students have excellent graduate prospects Check out our Computer Science subject table, look down the Graduate Prospects column and you'll notice that computer science students stand a pretty good chance of being professionally employed or in further study within 6 months of leaving uni. And that chance is strengthened if you go to one of the UK's best unis for the subject – the top 10 average a Graduate Prospects score of 93.6%. 3. Computer scientists earn big bucks Computer scientists are in demand and their salaries reflects this. Recent graduates in professional roles earn on average £23, 144 a year. Compared to other subjects that's fairly substantial – just take a look at 'What do Graduates Earn?. According to systems developers in senior management roles earn between £45, 000 and £70, 000 a year. 4. Computer scientists are needed in every type of industry Every industry uses computers so naturally computer scientists can work in any. Problems in science, engineering, health care, and so many other areas can be solved by computers. It's up to the computer scientist to figure out how, and design the software to apply the solution. 5. Internationally Diverse Cohort Computer science departments at typically benefit from having one of the more culturally diverse cohorts at their respective unis. According to HESA data nearly 9, 000 computer science students come from overseas. A diverse cohort means you'll be exposed to different cultures and potentially finish uni with an international network of contacts to utilise later in life. 6. Year abroad opportunities Computers have gone global, and it would be silly for Computer Science education providers to not reflect this fact. Check the opportunities for overseas study on the courses that interest you. A year abroad will provide you with a deeper understanding of how computers are used around the world, allowing you to experience other cultures, and gain some language skills in the process.

As one of the 230+ active students in this multi-year program you are sure to have many questions about all aspects of your graduate experience. Our goal with this site is to make it easy for you to find the information you need in a timely and efficient manner. Take a few minutes to peruse the main items to your left. You will find information on courses and degree requirements, student resources, policies and procedures for each step of your degree and graduation as well as other helpful links! For more information or questions specific to your degree plan, please contact our Graduate Student Services Coordinator or Director of Graduate Studies: Abhishek Chandra: Director of Graduate Studies Academic Office hours Katie Keyser Advising Hours: Mon./Tues./Thurs. Drop-Ins from 10am -11:00am, with scheduled appointments available at msds.appointments.umn.edu. Useful locations, hours, and phone numbers Department of Computer Science and Engineering Office, 4-192 Keller Hall, 200 Union St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Office Hours: M-F: 8:00 am- 4:30pm. Phone: (612) 625-4002 Graduate Admissions, 309 Johnston Hall, 101 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Office Hours: M-F: 8:00 am- 4:30pm. Phone: (612) 625-3014 Graduate Student Services and Progress Office, 160 Williamson Hall, 231 Pillsbury Dr., Minneapolis, MN 55455 Office Hours: M-F: 8:00 am- 4:00pm. Phone: (612) 625-3490 Graduate Assistant Office, 200 Donhowe, 319 15th Ave SE, Minneapolis MN 55455 Office Hours: M-F: 8:00 am- 4:00pm. Phone: (612) 624-7070 The PhD program in the Computer Science and Engineering (CS&E) department consists of three components: coursework, research, and thesis preparation. Throughout your career as a doctoral student you will receive support from your Academic Advisor(s), peer and research groups, departmental program administrator as well as a number of individuals across campus who work to best facilitate your progress through your degree program. Learn more about Ph.D. An M.S. degree requires at least 31 total credits. There are three options for the M.S. degree, Plan A thesis, Plan B project and Plan C course work. The Minor Field is defined as a minimum of 6 semester credits of coursework outside CS in a single department of the College of Science and Engineering adn is awarded by that department. The MCS degree (Master’s of Computer Science) is our course work only degree; most applicants to this degree are interested in expanding their skills but are not interested in the research aspects of computer science.

A good way to determine a baseline knowledge set for hardware knowledge generally needed for Comp Sci studies is to visit the curriculum websites of a wide range of prestigious universities. For me, I'd check the Comp Sci curriculum at MIT, Stanford, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (UIUC), Georgia Tech, etc. Then I'd get an average understanding from that. Furthermore, you could also personally phone up guidance counselors at Universities to which you are either attending or applying in order to get a personalized view of your needs. They would be available to guide you based on your desires. Professors even more. They are surprisingly accessible and very willing to give feedback on things like this. Recently, I looked at grabbing my master's degree. As an alum of UIUC, I emailed a few old professors there and told them of my interest. I asked them several questions geared at understanding gradschool and their perspective. They shared and most invited me to call and chat. Personally, I'd agree with @CookieOfFortune. The more you know about how a computer works internally, the more you can use that to your advantage while writing software. That said, it's not as if you really need to understand the physics of electronics to a high degree. It's interesting, sure, but your focus should be on circuitry, logic, etc. Much of this should be presented in a good Operating Systems course or at least provide you with springboards to learn more on your own.

In October, energized by having just attended Accessibility Camp Toronto I quickly threw together a post titled Your computer school sucks. Looking back at a handful of my previous posts, they reminds me a bit of reading Nietzsche – not in terms of content, but in terms of consisting of a lot of criticism and not a lot of solutions. Today, I’d like to follow “Your computer school sucks” with some actual guidance for web developer training schools and bootcamps. Do not treat accessibility as its own topic A few years ago, I wrote a series of blog posts under the theme Selling Accessibility. The content for many of those posts was driven by interviews I did with a number of people in the accessibility field, one of whom was Cher Travis-Ellis from CSU Fresno. Higher Education has some unique challenges when it comes to online accessibility, especially when it comes to the amount of content being created and the large numbers of non-technical people who create that content. During our discussions, Cher shared with me a neat trick she used when training CSU Fresno staff on accessible content creation: add the accessibility training to all the other training. Unless there’s a really specific technique that deals only with accessibility, nobody really needs to know that you’re teaching them how to make something accessible. For instance, if you’re teaching someone how to use MS Word and you talk about using actual headings instead of bolded text, the accessibility aspect of that practice doesn’t really matter. In other words, you’re teaching people how to do a good job, anyway. The same thing goes for web development. Many accessibility best practices are also just quality best practices. Teach people how to do a good job and, when it comes to techniques that are specific to accessibility, that should be in the core curriculum too. Discuss the role of "markup" in Hypertext markup language One of the most important things that developers should learn about front-end development is the etymology of the term “HTML” and especially of what “markup” means. The act of “marking up” a document goes back to the early days of the letterpress. Back then, the publisher of the document would annotate a document’s content to give instructions for the press operator regarding how to lay out the document on the press. In other words, the markup gives meaning to the content. In HTML this also has important ramifications for not only the visual presentation of the website but also the meaning of the content when rendered in user-agents.

Earlier this month, Congress added computer science to the list of core academic subjects as part of an update to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that’ll be voted on soon. This is a big deal! Here’s what it means: Our national K-12 education statute (called the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or ESEA) includes many definitions that ultimately affect — purposely or not — state and local decisions about what gets taught in schools, who teaches it and how. The statute defines “core academic subjects, ” which is basically a list of subjects considered important to any curriculum. While the definition alone does not require that any or all of them are taught in schools, there is direct evidence that it drives funding decisions at state and local levels. The standing list of subjects in the definition is based on what was being taught in the country’s schools 20 years ago, AKA last century! Computer science is absent from the list of core subjects in current law, which includes English, reading or language arts, math, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history and geography. After geography was added to core academic subjects in 2002, the AP exam in geography saw 7800% growth, out-pacing the growth of regular AP exams by more than a factor of 10x. Thanks to champions Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Senate’s bipartisan proposal to reauthorize the ESEA would add computer science to this definition in law. If enacted, it’d ensure that computer science has at least equal footing as other subjects in decisions regarding allocations of funding. The bill will move to the Senate floor for debate, hopefully soon!

In programming language theory, semantics is the field concerned with the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages. It does so by evaluating the meaning of syntactically legal strings defined by a specific programming language, showing the computation involved. In such a case that the evaluation would be of syntactically illegal strings, the result would be non-computation. Semantics describes the processes a computer follows when executing a program in that specific language. This can be shown by describing the relationship between the input and output of a program, or an explanation of how the program will execute on a certain platform, hence creating a model of computation. Formal semantics, for instance, helps to write compilers, better understand what a program is doing and to prove , e.g., that the following if statement if 1 = 1 then S1 else S2 has the same effect as S1 alone. Overview [edit] The field of formal semantics encompasses all of the following: The definition of semantic models The relations between different semantic models The relations between different approaches to meaning The relation between computation and the underlying mathematical structures from fields such as logic, set theory, model theory, category theory, etc. It has close links with other areas of computer science such as programming language design, type theory, compilers and interpreters, program verification and model checking.

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