As a recent CSci graduate from a state university in California, I can tell you that there's far better content online than you'll pick up in a class, so good job checking out that area. MIT has a lot of great courses on YouTube, such as their algorithms lectures from Cormen, and edX has a fair amount of content as well. There's also a lot of books out there if you can pick an area that interests you the most, such as mobile or web, that you can just read through and type up the examples yourself. The thing about programming is that you tend to learn more from doing than from listening to lectures, so if you can just sit down with a book, online tutorials, etc., and just make programs and figure out why they don't work on the first go (and when you pass the forloop/if statement section of your education, they probably won't), then you'll be golden.

Anyone happen to have a source to the recent analysis (at least the numbers)? I want to see if they have information on majors, etc. The original article is here: http://www.tcrecord.org/conten... but it's behind a paywall. I've noticed that in my university, computer science/engineering majors average in the C range simply because the courses are intended to be difficult.

Heh, I keep seeing all this assumption about student debt in grads. I should add "I don't have any student debt because I invested 80% of my school loan, cashed out and paid it off in full on top of tuition" to my resume. Will look nice under my bachelor's in computer science.

I worked there all summer and have been keeping up with people as well. Our office is on Pearl and it's closed because the 36 and the 7 are too dangerous / closed as well. I have been getting a lot of pictures from friends in the area and it's pretty crazy. The nice thing is a lot of the work can be done from home, and most of the guys I worked with live outside of boulder since housing is so expensive.

That's fine and all, but I really don't care about the OS name. There's multiple articles out there and people going crazy _just for the name_. I want to know what's new in the OS for developers, not what their next marketing strategy is.

I actually have seen a lecture of his from when he released Free Culture back in 06 I believe? I was in high school and went to see him give a speech at a museum. He used a lot of music for his presentation, but every bit of it was a clip to demonstrate a point and served a solid purpose to his discussion.

Thanks, I'll check into this when I get home tonight and update my repo.

Just the other day I was adding files to GITHub for my portfolio since I'll be graduating soon, and I was thinking about this exact issue. I ended up putting an Apache license header to my source files, but wasn't sure if this was _really_ the one I should have used. I just wanted to put my stuff up for when I start job hunting, and honestly don't care if others use my work so long as I have a name on my stuff (not that anything I've posted has been earth shattering or special, just random demos to show that I'm not _completely_ in the dark from school :) )

I like my coffee like I like my women, weak and light. I don't keep my coffee tied up in my basement though. Or another favorite: I like my women like I like my beer. Strong and bitter.

A lot of developers I know are pot smokers, so it's not that they're necessarily mutually exclusive.

Look into Picasso by square. I've been using that a lot lately at work and I love how simple it is

That's all fine and dandy, but what I'm the absolute most stoked about is that action bar is now supported back to API 7 http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/app/ActionBar.html

Unless we can support that much life with food, water and other resources, war for diminishing resources will wipe out enough population before we even get close to that.

This.

I just left California for Boulder, Colorado for a paid internship as an Android developer, and so far it's only been a month, but I can definitely tell you it was a great decision. It's paid, the people are awesome about teaching the small things that you just can't pick up in a class (proper memory management, breaking functions down to small tasks, proper OOP, etc.) and reinforcing the ideas from Code Complete and Effective Java, the company is surprisingly good to their programmers and the fact that I'm not in a podunk farm down is amazing and all around it's been a ton of work, and a ton of learning. Add to it that the people I work with are all active in the meetup community, and I've been making connections that I'm sure will be incredibly useful when I graduate next semester.

No career is a 'dead end career' unless you're awful at it, or it's just completely unneeded (or over saturated). If you've already started learning the stuff and they're paying you, keep at it.