In dilemma for my computer major

[Blackberry Junkie]

Anyone out there who is a college student or a graduate student majoring in computer.

I am experiencing a difficult decision which to jump in the bandwagon for my major in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical,Computer Engineering, Computer Information System, or any other computer I did not mention here.

Will you guys explain in each different computer major to me so I can make the right decision for my future carrer.





Thanks

 

[Scrapster]

What year are you?

 

[Blackberry Junkie]

Oops.. forgot to add that: I am a sophomore at JSU.

 

[Scrapster]

Have you completed all the prerequisite classes for admission into each major?

 

[Blackberry Junkie]

I have 15 more hours before I can complete all the prerequisite classes and I should be completed all of them at the end of 4th quater of '01.

That is why I want to make a decision now before all of my prerequisite classes and be able to ready to apply whichever the department I plan to go in.

 

[Scrapster]

I suggest you look in my previous thread to help better guide you.

 

[Mule]

Computer Science is pretty much programming, you can do many other things with that degree, but programming is where the demand and the big bucks are.

Electrical Engineering is building circuits and stuff like that, it's certainly more hands on then CS.

Computer Engineering is a hybrid between EE and CS, in the real world, EE's make the hardware that's controlled by the software made by CS, and Comp. Engineering ties those fields together.

I don't exactly know what Computer Information System is, but my guess would be something like a CS degree that's concentrated on databases and stuff like that rather then programming. Maybe even some business related stuff thrown in there???

There is also MIS, which is more business/management related, a hybrid between a CS and Business degree. I'm not exactly sure what they do either.

Hope this helps,
2nd year CS Major

 

[Passions]

Mule said it quite nicely.

EE- Hard
CS- Soft
CE- Hard/Soft

 

[weezergirl]

i'm a 3rd year ee and cs major and i think doing the ee/cs or computer engineering route is the best way to go. that way if you are unsure you can dabble in both and figure out which one you like. with my major i can pretty much double my options. but i know a lot of people who jus wished they did straight cs because they like programming a lot and doing the ee side is just waste of time. so if u really like programming just stick with cs, it's where the money's at anyways.

 

[iamwiz82]

I am a CS major who is witching to MIS, Management: Information Systems.

I decided programming was not for me, and neither was circuit board, but Management seemed interesting. Kettering's MIS major includes building lans, settting up corporate infrastructure, etc. Which seems to be my cup of tea.

 

[hans007]

weezer girl talks of the dabbling. that is good. i did that and i decided i hated ee. I really think if you are allowed or if the lower level GEs and stuff are the same just go into one of those combo ones and switch over once you decide

 

[ZeroBurn]

i wasn't sure for a while myself, then after playing with CS for a while i decided i couldn't stand programming, and dropped it. totally steered on mis after that, i did it for my old company for a while and it seemed ideal. mainly setting up the lan's, setting up the basic structure of everything, and just as the name implies, managing.

 

[steelnewfie]

Really good exciting jobs in hardware...My friend works for Nortel, loves it and gets paid six figures.... Though I worked for Andersen Consulting as an analyst/programmer, and they are great too... I suggest doing whatever you enjoy...

 

[xodarap]

For heavens sake if you have any balls at all pick an "E" (CSE of EE)

Mule explained it exceptionaly but ill give you my take on the subject.

EE computer speciality-You build hardware Chips, Ram, Mortherboard the stuff we most directly deal with here. Typical carrear: work for intel build curcuits.

CSE-You build drivers. You "Optimize" software for hardware thus being the bain of everything we talk about on these forums. The guy that makes it work or makes it flop. Typical carrear: work for microsoft build direct X.

CS (BS)-Straight programming. Typical carear: work for microsoft write office.

CS (BA)-$MU offers both. A watered down form of CS that only recieves a BA not a BS and allows for double majoring. If you have some great double major Idea this makes sense if not expect to make less $. Typical concept: double with film work for lucas arts.

$MU has 6 main computer majors but im less sure about the other two.

Management Systems-The basic CSE courses combined with buissness.

CS/Premed double-A pretty cool ideal actually. An offshoot of tjhe EE-premed double that is called Medical Engeenering. Im not sure what all you do with it accept look really good to med schools.

After long deliberation i picked CSE. After all hardware is just a bunch of wires we make the finished product. And sense we put the final price hike on it we get paid the best to (sometimes).

 

[Blackberry Junkie]

kudos to Mule and xodarap for a good explanation in each different computer fields.

I can do the things for computers:

1. Build computer systems

2. troubleshoot computer systems (in software and hardware)

3. set up the networking for computers (approx 20 computers at the same time for small business)

4. Know a little in Visual basic programming. Never done any programming.

5. Can write basic HTML/CSS

That is all I can think of at this moment. I have 15 minutes for my lunchbreak so I better run off to the class now and will be back in few hours thanks