Should I go to college for Web Programming or Computer Science?

[TheVrolok]

Not all pharmacists work behind the counter at your local 24-hr Walgreens. I used to think the same thing until one of my friends went into Pharmacy here.

He's been doing quite a bit of in hospital work lately as part of the program and when he's done he has the option of doing an internship and hopefully getting on the hospital staff.

The way he was explaining is that that the doctors come in and diagnose the patient and request the prescriptions, then the pharmacist comes in and checks for interactions, allergens and any other alternative medicines that might be better for the patient. It's the doctor's job of finding out what to treat and the pharmacist's job of getting the right drugs in the patient to fix those problems.

I'm glad you said that. Most people don't realize what being a hospital pharmacist does. Sure, they work under the direction of a physician (in that the doc will order a prescription) but have great input in terms of what medications may be more beneficial for that specific patient. They can be great for patients.

 

[Crusty]

Same I guess except I had to take a c++ specific course and a general languages course that was like a crash course in 4 langueges (Fortran haskell ada and python if I remember right) while going into the theory of language in general; I took a class on assembly too though that was an ellective I think. Otherwise it was going more into the theory of programming than the actual how to code in said languages, but most of my classes didn't count as math credits despite whatever math we used in them. All classes in my university used java unless the class had a need to use a different one though it wasn't based on the whim of the professor or anything.

If you go for a BS here you are 2 classes short of minor in Math I believe, but like you said just because the class is listed under the CS department doesn't mean it won't use lots of math. I haven't taken a single class upper division class that didn't use some idea I learned in the early discrete math classes.

In fact, the very first discrete math/logic class I had to take was listed under the Philosophy department .

 

[Crusty]

Thats right. We did Haskell in 337.

I'm actually a CE major, I just took CS classes for fun. I got plenty of assembly experience. We did the LC3 assembly in Intro to CE and we did real assembly for the introduction to embedded programming class.

How did you get out of taking CS 307? I thought they only let you skip 305 or whatever it is.

I got a 5 on the CS AB AP exam when I took it so I only had to take 313K and 315 before I was admitted to the actual degree program. My first semester was in the fall of '03 though so that might have changed since then.