This past week I decided to write an android app with Xamarin and launch it on the Google Playstore. My app is a simple concept which currently doesn’t exist out there, that is paying your mortgage from your smart phone.
Interfaces – Concepts You Should Know Before Diving into Dependency Injection
Have you ever wondered how electricity works when you plug something in? You don’t need to, you just know that you when you have an electronic device, it just needs a plug to fit into the interface.
Where do my variables go – Stack and Heap Memory
There are various programming courses I teach, but I’d have to say that Introduction to Programming using C++ is my favorite. I love building and creating, and when I get those students who want to dabble and learn programming, it’s
Using the 80/20 Pareto Principle when writing your technical resume
In my latest e-book, A Developer’s Guide To The Technical Interview, I wrote a section about building your resume using something known as the Pareto Principle. In our daily lives the Pareto Principle is visible to us more than ever. What
Searching Strategies for Programming Jobs
My first real programming job was as a junior programmer doing VB for a printing company. Not exactly a challenging language, but it was the first company that gave me the opportunity. This was my mental state back then, and it shouldn’t
Determining Similarity with Locality Sensitive Hashing
In my last article I wrote about min-hashing, and how we can calculate a similarity between 2 records, whether it be a string of names, or even a blurb of words in a page. In order to compute the jaccard
5 Reasons for being an Adjunct
Many articles online are geared towards depressing you, or talking you out of becoming an adjunct. Being an adjunct is worth it, with the condition that you have a full time job which complements your income in what I call “diversifying
Determining Similarity – Jaccard Index
Over the course of my career as a Computer Scientist, one of my favorite subjects in the field has been data analysis. I love finding ways of representing data in a meaningful and useful way to determine a conclusion. A
Dealing with Difficult Students
Even though you’re not teaching high school, you’d be surprised at some college students that haven’t completely abandoned their high school identity. The first semester that I taught, I tried to be the really cool professor, and wasn’t attentive to
Student Accommodations
As a part time adjunct, one of the hardest aspects of teaching is handling students with accommodations. There are legal ramifications you need to worry about, and sometimes you can unknowingly break the law. You should have a blurb in