| I go to Missouri S&T, in my last year as a CS student. Our CS program is primarily focused on getting a software engineering job. Our primary language is C++ (though with a few exceptions, professors don't make use of most of it's features). There are Java courses, but I don't think they start until the 300 level. Our primary forms of research are either military-funded ventures (one that comes to mind is disposable ad-hoc networking sensors) or machine learning (with a heavy focus in evolutionary algorithms). Our local ACM chapter does some interesting stuff, mostly projects. Two recent ones that come to mind were the building of an arcade cabinet, and the building of a soda machine, with a corresponding API. Most design teams on campus are looking for a good CS to write some code. This could be image processing software for the robotics team, or porting Fortran code to C++. There's also a team that hosts a programming competition every semester. I think it's pretty awesome, but as it's leader, I may be a bit biased. Here's a link: http://megaminerai.com/ I haven't seen much in the entrepreneurial side of things here. We have some sort of organization for it, but I don't think it has much membership. There are a few individuals interested in such things, but you have to look around for them. |