According to the U.S. Department of Labor, more education leads to more money and lower rates of unemployment for life. A worker who has earned a bachelor’s degree makes $900 each week, whereas the high school graduate makes only an average of $554 each week. During the 2003 – 2004 academic year, a [...]

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A Chief Information Officer is one of the top executives in an organization. According to the Department of Labor, top executives are some of the highest paid workers in the U.S. Top executives also often receive top-quality benefits, including use of company aircraft, cars, and executive dining rooms. Although [...]

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Although the typical graduate with a bachelor of computer science works in a comfortable office setting, an alternative career option after attending a computer science college is to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Detecting cyber-crime and other investigative assignments are just a few uses the FBI may have for a bachelor degree [...]

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Java is actually more than a programming language. It is technology that was developed by Sun Microsystems which provides both a programming language and a platform that will run on any operating system. The programming language itself is an object-oriented format with some highly developed technical features. Java technology includes the Java [...]

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You may have noticed that computer programmers seemingly speak in a language all their own. Usually their discussions entail issues about a program they’re writing, which may be written in any one of scores of computer languages. So the discussion you hear is about the functions created by using one of those [...]

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The C computer programming language is one of the earliest languages to emerge and was the prevalent language in programming for years. It was developed at Bell Labs in the early 1970s as a programming tool for the UNIX platform. Later it expanded into wide uses on many different systems including DOS, [...]

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If you’re contemplating a career in the computer industry and you’ve always been clever with software, perhaps you’re considering computer programming. It always helps to make sure everyone is in agreement on terminology and in this area; there can be a little confusion.
Computer programs are conceived by software engineers and by computer systems [...]

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One of the indications that a profession has come of age is when academic pundits start arguing about what defines that profession. Computer science is a premier example of that phenomenon. Some people feel that computer science is a catchall phrase that embodies information technology (IT), software engineering, computer engineering and the [...]

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There are several well established and accredited online colleges that offer master’s degrees in computer science. Much like an MBA, the master’s in computer science (or one of its related fields) tickets the graduate for a leadership role, and the master’s programs that you will find online reflect that.
A bachelor’s degree in computer [...]

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A career in computer science can take you in a number of directions. Computer engineering is akin to electrical engineering: it deals with the machine’s hardware. Computer programming includes the fields of computer operating systems and software. In some schools, software design is a separate discipline from programming – designing software is [...]

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In the early part of the last century, clerks who sat on stools and did columns of ciphers in order to keep business books current were called computers. In World War II, a mathematical protege named Alan Turing was brought into British Intelligence to try and help break the Nazi code system, Enigma. The coding [...]

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Finding individual courses in computer science can be something of a challenge with online colleges. Their approach to computer science and to most other academic disciplines is to offer an educational package that, upon completion, will provide significant value in the job market. Some large universities provide individual courses through their [...]

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For the purposes of this article, we are going to define computer science as the sum of a variety of parts: computer programming, computer design, systems design, networking, software development, computer and software engineering and, because it’s sometimes used as a course description, computer science. If you are interested in learning about [...]

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As computers, computer functions (such as email) and computer networks have become a universal fact of life in the business world, the academic community has begun to evolve its teaching disciplines accordingly. Nowhere is this more evident than among the online colleges, which tend to be a little less bound by tradition [...]

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In its broadest definition, computer science includes a number of academic specialties. Study of a computer’s functions begins with electronics and electrical engineering. Included as a matter of necessity is the study of computer operating systems: that path will lead before too long to software and databases. At that point, computer science [...]

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