Recent content by TheHeadFL

Not to get this too off topic but education is not federally regulated. The Dept of Education only regulates via grants that they offer to school districts, and they ask for things like diversity requirements in return. Requirements for teaching very for every state.

I personally have no problem reading assembly language code. As far as determining the semantic meaning of a block of assembly code... without the benefit of any symbolic information... I would be surprised if you could get very far. Maybe if you knew what the code was supposed to be doing...

I doubt if many people we be that concerned with your minor. Pick something that you think would benefit you, in terms of knowledge.

What high school teachers need a masters? Here in Florida they are so desperate for teachers that anybody with a Bachelors can be a teacher. Any grade level. Also, to the original poster, I dont think it would be easier to go NT40->2000 MCSE. I am MCSE NT4 and 2000, and I did the upgrade...

The source code generated by a program like dcc will have almost no similarity to the original code. Most code is so highly optimized by the compiler that even a debugger will report incorrect line numbers, etc. In other words it bears almost no resemblance. He didn't specify .NET. People...

Most of the work that your clearance would help you get is going to be for defense contractors.... Lockheed, Grumman, Boeing, SAIC, etc etc. It is certainly a valuable thing to have. I am not sure if there is much in terms of IT, but the jobs exist if you are into software engineering. You...

A decompiler will be completely useless, for the most part, on a C++ executable. Unless, that is, you are a pro at deciphering assembly language with no semantic information.

I have an MCSE on NT4 and an MCSE on Win2k, and they are both next to the most worthless things I've ever put on a resume. In fact, I have considered in the past not even listing them. I have a college degree in the "code monkey" field. I had to laugh a bit there when you're denegrating...

He means college as in 2 year versus university as in 4 year. And yes, you are right, network/hardware installation is a 2 year degree field. (If even that)

Maybe at some schools I guess they have tracks that would be geared towards CPU design, but the Computer Engineer M.Sc. and Ph.D. students I work with (as well as Computer Science) are basically just CS students with a knowledge of microcontroller programming, etc. They don't really do the...

Learn PHP and use templates. You design a template, and store each page text in another text file or in a database. The PHP script parses the template and puts in the appropriate data. Change the template, change every page.

You need to create a standard grammar for the users. Lets say you figure out that you mainly are going to have a few types of sentence structures.... "Walk to exit" "Talk to guy near table" You can say, some simple commands are: <verb> <preposition> <noun> And you can have a parser classify...

You won't be designing any chips and such as a computer engineer. You need to be an electrical engineer for that, probably with a masters degree.

I agree with the above poster. You're competing with every kid on the block, and they've all got years of playing around with this stuff. PC Repair is a very low level skill that is in oversupply.

The CS program has nothing to do with putting together computer hardware (that is already manufactured) and therefore you wouldn't get a computer. Your classes will have nothing to do with it. Also, you will never make money in the slapping together PC parts business. I would look elsewhere...