Browsing category: 'Education'

	ACM Events & Website October 7, 2010 Jason Ernst 1 Comment Recently the ACM Student Group at the University of Guelph (which I am currently chair of) has been busy with some of our first events. The first was a programming contest modeled after the ACM-ICPC. The event was briefly featured in the fall issue...
	Categories: Computer Science, Education, Featured, Miscellaneous, News Tags: ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Dan Ashlock, Programming Contest, Speaker Series, University of Guelph, Website
	Experiences as a Computer Science Graduate Teaching Assistant April 7, 2010 Jason Ernst 5 Comments It's almost the end of my second term of being a teaching assistant at the University of Guelph. This time around it was an intermediate c programming class. I'm really starting to enjoy being a TA, and since it was my second time, it has become...
	Categories: Computer Science, Education, Miscellaneous Tags: Assistant, Computer, Guelph, Science, Teaching
	Why Learning Assembly is Still Important for CS Undergrads December 2, 2009 Jason Ernst 6 Comments This past semester I had the privilege of assisting in an undergraduate assembly language class. From my experience in my undergrad years, I found this class quite challenging since it was much different from other CS classes I had encountered up...
	Categories: Computer Science, Education Tags: Assembly Language, Education, Importance, M68k, Undergraduates
	Second Beginning at Guelph & September Conferences in Ontario! September 3, 2009 Jason Ernst 2 Comments This month I start for the second time at the University of Guelph, this time for my Ph.D. degree. I am continuing to work under the same supervisor and hopefully continue along with similar research in the area of wireless mesh networks. Our lab...
	Categories: Computer Science, Education, News, Wireless Networks Tags: adhocnets 2009, TIC STH 2009, University of Guelph
	Top 10 Reasons to Study Computer Science in 2009 January 30, 2009 Jason Ernst 13 Comments The trend in blogs, the internet and news sites lately is to write articles about the economy. Instead of that however, I thought I would use the opportunity to try to encourage people who might be considering studying computer science (or related...
	Categories: Computer Science, Education, Miscellaneous Tags: 2009, Computer, Economy, Education, Industry, Job, Retraining, Science, Students, Study, Why?