Advice for Computer Science College Students

"Most colleges designate certain classes as "writing intensive," meaning, you have to write an awful lot to pass them. Look for those classes and take them! Seek out classes in any field that have weekly or daily written assignments."<p>Good advice here. Get in the habit of WRITING (in a form that keeps an archive, that is email preferably over unarchived chat) to professors about any issue that comes up in class.

The title should be changed to say it is from 2005.

I've never been a fan of: while (<i>s++ = </i>t++); I think it pretty just make the code harder to read. (Ok, maybe on some compilers it can be faster). I mean, everytime I see a line like that, I always assume there's a nasty bug hidden in it and I spend lots of time looking at it to be 100% sure there isn't.

In regards to summer internships:<p>I'm just about to intern for a second year Electronic Arts. If you saw a resume with two consecutive internships at the same place (same position and team, too), would you think better or worse of it as compared to someone who did two different, fairly big-name companies?

Ha, I almost posted this about the same time you did- I got to this page earlier today when I was led on a hunt started from a post on HN about hiring- I wanted to know about hiring CS students as they were undergrads and this post was in google search results.<p>I thought his shot at Facebook in one of the opening paragraphs was funny- just in general it's interesting to see how so much has changed in just a few short years to where a leading blogger could be so wrong about what was to come (nothing again Joel).

I'd like to see a list of recommendations like this for entrepreneurs or would-be entrepreneurs in college (something like <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html</a>).<p>I wonder what Caterina Fake would say about Joel's list (<a href="http://www.caterina.net/archive/001234.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.caterina.net/archive/001234.html</a>), assuming the hackers he's speaking to are also entrepreneurs?

I am in a logic class that sounds just like the Dynamic Logic one Spolsky describes.<p>I hate it.<p>The homework two weeks ago? Prove that p = !!p. I gave up.

I'm screwed.

Where is the downrate button? Sigh.