Post date: Jan 18, 2011 1:9:44 PM
Over the weekend a report spread naming Software Engineer as the best job of 2011. Computer Systems Analyst came in fifth place. Whether that will still the case when you are on the job market is unpredictable, but I assert that you will be more productive, skillful, and happy at whatever you do for work if you are proficient at Computer Science.
The warm-up today is to work out the answer the third quiz question (whichever one you skipped) and get the JUnit test in the Quiz7 project to pass. We'll also do a quick "diff" (based on the name of the Unix program that compared two files) on some of the Histogram classes that were submitted for the second pass of the Dice project. You should have a chance to see this standard software engineering tool.
With the new week comes an exciting new project, Fractal, which we will begin looking at today because of the short week. The project features recursive data structures, this week's topic. You already have experience with such structures by virtue of having worked with 2D arrays and that's where we'll pick up the discussion.