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| Added 3/16/2023. Article on Experienced Software Engineers Wanted. From Design News Daily. The article says that people they hire don't necessarily know their specific technology, but they expect that being a lifelong learner is a key attribute of new employees. It goes on to say that you should put some of your personal projects on your resume. It also gives some insights into what a typical software engineer's day looks like. |
| Article about learning hard things. Some people consider computer science to be hard. Added 9/22/2021. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-hardest-part-about-learning-hard-things?utm_source=pocket-newtab |
| Elon Musk's Five Steps for Successful Engineering (Also under Five Steps for Building Anything Complicated.) From August 16, 2021. Les Arnold, thanks for the link. |
| Interesting article about Donald Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming books, added 4/22/2020 |
| Scott Adams on How to Get a Real Education (from The Wall Street Journal) |
| Computer Science Education article from EE Times (The author, Robert Dewar, was my thesis advisor) |
| Why Aren't Engineering Students Happier? Because It's Hard. |
| Video of Dr. Ben Carson's speech at the White House Prayer Breakfast, 2/8/2013 (Great points on education) |
| Video of Brett Victor talking about Inventing on Principle (about an hour, and worth it.) 3/1/2013 |
| Java Swing Tutorials, straight from the source's mouth. These are Sun's, and very good. 2/6/2014 |
| Don't follow your passion. Become passionate about somthing useful, since just following your passion is generally a good way to go broke. Funny and useful PragerU video. |
| The Age of Privacy had a good run, but it's over. Here is a blog entry with interesting links to see just how much Google, Facebook, and the rest know about you: https://twitter.com/iamdylancurran/status/977559925680467968 |