Code, Monkey
Poor Seth Zucker! Over a decade after his request that he be allowed to major in something of his own creation, “New Media”, a mash-up of art and interwebz et cetera:
[Julie Dorsey, a professor at Yale] also started a new major, computing and the arts, which combines computer science with art, theater or music to teach students how to scan and restore paintings or design theater sets.
This is from an article in the Times regarding a surge in interest in computer science degrees. [via Matthew A. on FB]
Most popularly-researched variants of ye olde computer science graduate degree? From ye olde GradSchools.com:
- Computer science grad programs
- Online comp sci grad programs (691)
- CS master’s degree programs
- Online CS master’s degree programs (495)
- Campus-based CS master’s degree programs
- Campus-based CS grad programs
- Online CS doctoral programs (68)
- Doctoral programs in CS
- CS grad programs in New York
- Campus-based doctoral programs in CS
Of course, after watching Social Network, (”row crew“; bah!) I too wished I’d majored in computer science. Alas. Woulda, coulda, shoulda …
< ![CDATA[it's not too late.....
read this book
http://pragprog.com/titles/gwpy/practical-programming
watch MIT free courses starting here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6U-i4gXkLM
took me 2 years to get up to speed to actually create stuff but I would say the first 1.5 years was taken up by finding the right books/resources.]]>