/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9879111
I’m a 3rd year CS and math double major. I can list a few reasons.

1) The problem is that since it’s so wide, there’s this obsession to make it service the practical UNLESS you go out of your way to learn the theory. The irony is that the theory actually comes back to be practical anyway. Most schools offer it though.

2) CS in undergrad has a curriculum that’s sort of between science and engineering, but it has an engineering culture. The problem is that engineering is steeped in tradition of applying physics, so when you see a field that’s easier to break into since there aren’t any fluid mechanics or Fourier transforms to learn, it seems babyish. The irony being that algorithms to solve both of those things have been developed extensively by CS people and have revolutionized research and engineering firms

3) Because of the aforementioned point, a good amount of CS majors take the bare minimum and think they’re hot shit.

I audited a good amount of physics classes past my requirements (two semesters of classes plus labs), and I took a lot of math alongside the harder CS classes, some of them graduate level. The problem is that this degree can give you so much if you go out of your way to learn math (and a good amount of physics on the side), but it doesn’t force you like engineering does. Perhaps an ABET accreditation for systems design and theory should exist so that you eject all of the “I want my web design degree now” people.