You know what they say: CS is the new econ. It feels like everyone at Columbia has taken, is taking, or plans to take at least one computer science class during their time here. If you fall into the ...

This lab course introduces students to modern topics of engineering optics. Teams of students will carry out four different projects: holography, lasers, free-space optical communication, and ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Intended for students who have completed COMP_SCI 111, but don’t have any other formal Computer Science background. It will provide an introduction to object-oriented programming in Python, preparing ...

By bridging the gap between theoretical logic and practical application, the syllabus fosters the technical proficiency and ...

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I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of the ...

What is a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and what does “real-time” mean anyway? What are the various kinds of state machines, and how to code them efficiently in C? What is object-oriented ...