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Gift or hard graft?
We look at outrageously talented and successful people - the Beatles, Mozart, Rockefeller, Bill Gates - and assume there is such a thing as pure genius. Not necessarily, argues Malcolm Gladwell...
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Bjarne Stroustrup on Educating Software Developers
Bjarne Stroustrup is a leading figure in modern software development. As the designer of the C++ language – used in everything from the Google search engine to the iPhone – his contribution has impacted countless development projects.
After 24 years as a researcher at Bell Labs, in 2002 Stroustrup became a professor at Texas A&M University, where he holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science. The experience has given him insight into the all-important task of educating tomorrow’s software developers.
In this interview he speaks frankly about the challenges and problems – and improvements being made – in computer science programs. Among issues like perceptions of offshoring and the need to balance the theoretical with the practical, he addresses complaints by tech companies about the lack of fully qualified CS graduates.
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Ten Commandments for Game Development Education
This is an approximate transcript of the text of a keynote address at the Education Summit of the 2008 GDC.
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Coder, your days are numbered
Communication skills, not coding skills, are a developer's greatest asset in a bear economy
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