Resources about different Computer Science fields

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I am going to begin my final year at university this September so I need to do a project for my dissertation. I had a look at the list with the projects suggested by the uni last year and I don't find any of them THAT interesting. That, combined to my "love" for "theoretical" computer science as a whole got me into thinking that it would be nice to spend the last month of my summer holidays researching some of the cs fields in more depth. So far at university, regarding the more "theoretical" side of computer science we have mainly looked at searching and sorting algorithms, string matching, game theory, design patterns for software engineering and maze solving algorithms. Next year the syllabus includes bioinformatics, compilers and machine learning. I have an idea about all of these but nothing incredibly detailed (ie, we didn't do algorithms design at all). So, I was thinking, instead of either picking a project from the list or picking a project that a hobbyist could do as well, why not study about a few fields of computer science and brainstorm in the process?

I would really appreciate it if you could point me to available resources (books, ebooks, pdfs, online communities, etc) about the fields below, or even suggest new fields to be explored.

Note that I only want to understand what they are about, not mess with technical issues, yet.

The fields:

• Web Semantics

• Algorithms (analysis, design, etc)

• Machine Learning

• Evolutionary Computation

• Game Theory

• Other (???)

manpreet 2 years ago

I have a multiple page Safecracker form, as there are a number of large category groups that need to be chosen from. On Page 2, I have a content type select. On Page 3, I have a topic select. And, on Page 4, I have a number of selects to reference syllabus documents.

The select fields look like this, that is the categories shown are being filtered by group_id:

<select name="category[]" id="select_syll-ac" multiple="multiple" class="multiselect">
          {categories group_id="17"}
                  selected}>{category_name}
          {/categories}
select>

Currently, only the options selected on Page 4 are making it to the final entry. I thought that previously the options selected on page 2 were also being retained.

preserve_checkboxes=“yes” does not fix the behaviour.

Given Pages 2, 3 and 4 are all dealing with categories, do I have to add a hidden select of the category groups on Page 2 and 3 to Page 4?