Lots of people who are learning to code ask the question "Should I get a CS degree or do a bootcamp?", or "Is a degree necessary?". I have just finished my degree (not graduated yet), and while I can't give all the answers to these questions, I can share my …
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I like a good war story, and I like them even more when I get to tell them. While writing my dissertation, I ran into a case of disappearing documentation. Here's what happened.
As part of my undergraduate dissertation, I was working with Kubernetes, and more specifically, the controllers within …
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I'm about to finish my degree and have been fortunate enough to receive two graduate job offers. One was an associate product manager position at Google, and the other was software engineering at Bloomberg. Both companies and jobs excited me, which left me with a difficult choice. In this post …
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August to November is internship application season for computer science undergraduates and over the past few months I've been applying to a good number of internships myself. Through these applications I've learnt a few things about what makes for a good recruitment process and what doesn't and I hope to …
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At the University of Edinburgh we call the week before lectures begin each year Welcome Week. It's designed as a time for new students to meet each other and get settled into university and often a new city. Most societies will run events to try and attract new students to …
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Cameron MacLeod