Children are starving around the world NOW and you want to blather on about guns?

I take it you don't have any apps on Amazon huh? Their sales, from everything I've seen, are drops in the bucket compared to the play store

Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein. They had prisoners who mined on the moon, and when they rebelled against the government, they hurled down moon rocks. Good little story.

Point of this? Other than defamation.

Anyone with a WSJ account able to post the article?

Ah, yeah ours is just tuition. If you want to live on campus, it's even more expensive with rent and food plans, etc. Honestly out here it's cheaper to find an apartment or live a bit out of town and drive in. Even then it's not too bad. With 3400 a semester + living (350 in rent, 20 in internet, 20 in PG&E with a roommate) it's still not too bad. Then again, no one wants to live in Fresno >.>

They forget to mention that one of the best parts of college, apart from being introduced to new things (not necessarily taught new things, but shown that they exist so you can look into them yourself in your spare time), is networking. During my upper division coursework, I've spent far longer at the bar than I should have, but that time at the bar has been with guys from my computer science classes and we've discussed a lot of ideas, brought in our laptops and worked on some awesome things (released an Android game recently that was programmed 100% at the bar, and usually after a drink or two. Comments galore so I could keep track of my thoughts >.>). You meet people that are _awesome_ at things that you barely grasp, and vice versa. You make friends and team up and work on projects that would take you far longer on your own than if you hadn't collaborated and met people along the way. Example: I generally handle a lot of the Android, web and database stuff for my group of friends, whereas another guy handles circuitry if we want to do something with the Audrino, and is awesome at C and 80x86 assembly, and the last guy is _great_ with math and algorithms for making things "just work."

What insanely overpriced school is that? Here in California, a State university tuition is 3400 a semester after our most recent increase. At community college I was paying about 500 a semester. After graduating this semester, I'll have managed to pull off only paying 25k out of pocket for 5 years on a CSCI degree with a math minor.

Where I'm finishing up my CS degree, there isn't a software engineering program at all, but rather you can take 3 electives in it. A lot of our CS electives are way more practical than our core classes, too. It's a pretty nice mix when you can skip the theoretical nonsense, I just don't know how well that holds up compared to other universities

He was my actual vote >.> He seemed the most reasonable out of all of the candidates. It's a shame the media and government don't care about options.

Alright, fine. They're useful if you want to work a part time IT at a university while getting a degree. Pretty sure that's still useless for the level he'd want to get into ;)

Having taken the A+, Network+ and Security+ as a requirement for my current job, I can tell you that they're not worth a damn thing. The tests are simple and they just check basic knowledge that you probably already have as a programmer. You could always go the route a lot of fresh grads who are also not working do: start writing apps. Games are fun, easy and profitable enough if done well. Plus there's a slew of tools to make them quickly produceable. Lately I've been playing with the AppGameKit (AGK) from the Game Creators, and I like it. They have a free version that you could try out and see if it's something you'd be interested in.

iOS development is a catch 22 for making money/being broke. I actually bought my first Mac Book today from a guy on Craigslist since it was a solid deal for one that isn't too old, and so that I could start with iOS development. I'm a senior at a university getting a CS degree and have been actively coding for Android for the last two years simply because it's free. iOS requires that you use a Mac (or Hackintosh works, if I recall, but I didn't try it. Only had one machine until today and it's an ancient Dell running Ubuntu) and pay the $100 fee a year. That's a lot when you're shit broke and all of your money goes to living and tuition :p

How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie. Great pointers for talking to people. Also I loved the art of war.

Well, I'm currently 24 so it's been a couple years, but for my junior and senior year I was able to attend a magnet school part time called CART.
During my junior year I took the Cisco networking course, then for my senior year I took the computer science class that went over programming in Java. We didn't do anything too in depth, but it was enough to get me interested in computer science, and now I'm almost done with my bachelor's degree. At the regular school I would have been restricted to our Office course.