ManWithComputer
The Internet, IP
Male, 37
I've worked at multiple Internet startups of different shapes, sizes and ambitions. Now I'm the CTO (Chief Technical Officer) of another small company with big dreams. I look nothing like the picture above.
If you copy and paste your homework question in here, I will answer with something that will, at best, get you an F on your project, and at worst, will get you kicked out of school. You have been warned.
It depends entirely on the site in question. Try asking Google.
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Check out Foundation or Twitter Bootstrap. These are web design libraries that may give you the leg up you seem to be looking for.
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So, I can't say for sure, but I think Flash might be a good bet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash
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Compared to other programming tasks, it's not so hard--it's more a matter of gluing together big parts that other people have already made.
What gets tricky with screen scraping is dealing with pages that almost-but-don't-quite fit the pattern. Setting up a basic scraper is pretty easy, dealing with the exceptions to the rules is what gets you.
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Chef
Is it true that the "specials" are usually the stuff that's been sitting around awhile?
Inner City English Teacher
What was the saddest student journal entry you've read?
Lifeguard
Are most public pools just gross lakes of bodily fluids?
Gladly. My freelance rate is $150 an hour, with a 40-hour minimum. If you're interested please post your e-mail address, name, mailing address, and the name of the company you work for/school you attend.
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Basically, because other people exist. Other people are either going to extend your code someday, or you'll be using code that other people wrote. And if you redefine "cout" or "fin," things will get as confused as if you redefined a common natural-language word like "dog" or "red."
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This is actually a very perceptive question. In short, if your heart lies specifically in website programming, a programming degree is probably better.
Computer science, properly speaking, is the branch of mathematics that deals with the theoretical underpinnings of computation. Computer programming is a practical, not so much a theoretical, discipline: how do you get a computer to do what you want to do? You could say that computer science is to computer programming as physics is to mechanical engineering. As a mechanical engineer you'd better know some physics, but your interest is mostly going to be in practical applications.
One secret of web programming is that, from a theoretical point of view, it's really simple. A browser somewhere makes a request to your site; based on that, you get some data out of a database; and then you wrap the bits of information you got in some HTML and send it back. What makes it trickier is being able to do that tens or hundreds of thousands of times per second, 24 hours a day, on all sorts of different browsers. But the algorithmic aspects are largely well understood and already taken care of.
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