Computer Science!

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Originally posted by: mdchesne
qaa541, yes, i totally agree. cooperative work between and among students and lab coaches is KEY

Want hear something asinine? Our CS department FORBIDS (absolutely forbids) anyone to help each other on HW or assignments. Considers it cheating. You can ask someone "Shoudl I use StreamTokenizer for this project and how does it work" but the best answer you could hope for without "cheating" is "Yea, I used tokenizer. Here's the link to the javadoc page<link> hope it helps, gl"

so we learn on our own for the most part. You don't pick it up quickly, you fail. Darwinism 101

lol

That's not true. Maybe for the intro CS courses, but not all of them.

 

[qaa541]

HumblePie is right. Computer Science is being the jack of all trades for computers and related things. It's not all about software engineering as most people play it out to be. Look at me, I didnt take any software engineering classes after the required ones for the major. I am in no ways a "code monkey". I chose the networking path and I don't regret it at all. I can do ANYTHING with computers after being ICS, but my goals were either to go into networking or computer architecture. Architecture is more of a EE dominated position so careerwise, I chose networking.

BTW, even though I was a computer science grad, I'm currently a product engineer. I write absolutely no code whatsoever.

Many CS majors go into business, law or even medicine after their undergrad. Technology and intellectual property law are really hot right now and a CS major has a big heads up on understanding all that junk.

 

[mojaam]

Wow, finished reading 95% of everybody's entry here. I'm a freshman majoring in CS. The atmosphere is just like my 101 class. Very intimidating and pessimistic. I am already a pessimistic person so that's not good. But on the other hand, some offer good advice. Like the co-op thing. Finding people to help definately sounds good. After all, not all of us are lucky to go to a high school that offers some CS related classes. I feel so behind on Day 1 with a Pretest to show where I stand. But it's all good though, I believe you can achieve whatever you want if you consistently push yourself...