<t>I don't know if anyone has started a thread anywhere else re. this, but I would just like to thank DCFC for a very instructive and entertaining evening last night. Although I must admit to getting lost occasionally due to my C++ being a little rusty nowadays, I certainly took some pointers (no pu...

<t>This may be a contentious suggested text as it's specifically designed for the UK undergrad engineering courses - but if you want to start at the very beginning and rapidly pick up some good maths skills in a very easy to read and understandable way, I would have to suggest K. A Stroud's "Enginee...

<t>QuoteYour life (and particular your working life) is much longer than a decade, i guess you dont live in a country where life expectancy is about 40 yearsNo, I don't - and I sincerely hope I have more than a few decades left to go! You are, of course, absolutely correct on that point, and my phil...

<t>How about this. It took me the best part of a decade to finish off my studies, and in comparison to alot of my less academic (but certainly no less able) friends from high-school who have ended up in the IB/Hedge Fund world, I'm the poor cousin. I had a great time at university, got to study some...

<t>Personally, I'd get the M.Sc. for a number of reasons1) You won't have to do all the course units, so you'll have some spare time to do further reading / self teaching in areas that may be of interest to you that haven't been covered by the courses you've already done - Once you start work, you'l...

<t>Okay, for what it's worth, here's my opinion.1) Access is great for rapid prototyping stuff on your local drive - although when you move to a proper industrial-strength DB such as Sybase or SQL server etc.. you're going to spend alot of time actually setting up your stored procs, views and trigge...