/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10573897]

What should I major in?

[Anonymous No.10573913]

Arabic

[Anonymous No.10573917]

>>10573897
computer engineering for the good jobs/graduate opportunities
minor in chinese so when trump finishes dumpstering the country you'll be able to communicate with our new overlords

[Anonymous No.10573919]

comp sci
easy degree, good to potentially great money, tons of jobs

/sci/ often rants about how comp sci majors are full of brainlets. This is 100% true.

But if you are actually smart this is a good thing. Weaker competition.

[Anonymous No.10573921]

>>10573897
nuclear engineering
you'll be inducted into a secret society where they monitor all your purchases and air travels but get compensated for keeping your mouth shut

[Anonymous No.10573923]

>>10573917
>>10573919
Can I major in comp sci/comp eng without ever having studied coding previously?

[Anonymous No.10573930]

>>10573917
>>10573919
Also, what is the difference between comp sci and computer engineering? I would get bonus points for majoring in computer engineering vs. comp sci, because the Academy considers one "engineering" and the other "science."

[Anonymous No.10573931]

>>10573923
Yes. Coding isn't particularly hard. But learn on your own before hand to get ahead of the curve. Spend the summer before you start to learn which ever language your school teaches in the intro classes.

If you know how to code before starting CS, your freshman/sophmore years will pretty much be ez mode.

[Anonymous No.10573935]

I know someone with an aerospace engineering background and theyre stuck doing internships at the moment but still young so will see how that fleshes out

Know someone with a chemistry background, works at a company that studies cancer and has some drugs out for treatment but not made a full blown cure yet (obviously) makes good money seems happy but is also twice the age of the AE mentioned above

Dont know about all those other options

[Anonymous No.10573937]

>>10573931
well said. follow this advice OP

[Anonymous No.10573941]

>>10573931
My first major class would be in the second semester of my sophomore year...

[Anonymous No.10573945]

>>10573930
comp eng has harder required courses in general. more math

Unless you have a very specific career in mind, do comp sci. Comp Sci and Comp Eng both usually end up being coders, and tech companies don't really discriminate between the two majors, so why take the harder degree to get the same job.

Comp eng does technically open up a few more doors in terms of career, more hardware oriented stuff. But to get those jobs you usually have to specialize in your junior/senior year with internships to even have a chance at them.

[Anonymous No.10573946]

>>10573897
Really depends on your personality. Don't do something dumb like humanities though obviously.

[Anonymous No.10573950]

>>10573941
ok your school is weird then. you should at least be taking an intro to programming course first semester freshman year

[Anonymous No.10573956]

Not OP, but which of these is a good major? They don't have comp eng so I was thinking of doing software engineer. What's the difference between software engineer, comp eng and comp sci?

[Anonymous No.10573958]

>>10573950
Well, I'm going to the Naval Academy. Intro to programing first semester sophomore year, straight into the major after that it looks like.

[Anonymous No.10573964]

>>10573897
Computer science, the ultimate chad major.

[Anonymous No.10573968]

>>10573930
Computer science is computer science.
Computer engineering is 50% CS 50% EE.

Also what academy are you talking about? Post the degree curriculum, that's the best way to judge each major.

>>10573945
>more math
It really depends where you go, but where I went as well as pretty much any school with a decent CS department, this is pretty much false. Even then many departments require both to give the same math.
CE is still harder because of the EE requirements though.

[Anonymous No.10573970]

>>10573956
Post the degree for SE, its hard to judge unless we know what what you have to take.

[Anonymous No.10573979]

>>10573897
White Genocide

[Anonymous No.10574053]

Gonna use this thread to ask:
What jobs are centered around algorithms and CS theory?

[Anonymous No.10574058]

>>10573923
Depending on how rigorous your course is, you'll likely be better off than the Redditors who can throw together self-learned amateur code. I've taken 100 level CS courses and they all seemed designed to weed out people with bad coding habits, I imagine it's harder for people who've been doing it "wrong" for years to relearn than someone fresh.

It doesn't take long to pick up the syntax.

[Anonymous No.10574065]

>>10573968
>t. brainlet cs major

[Anonymous No.10574077]

>>10573897
>letting 4chan decide your future

[Anonymous No.10574085]

>>10573970
Start with an undergraduate degree and choose a major in Computing and Software systems. Complete aMaster of engineeringto become an accredited engineer. First pic is computing system

[Anonymous No.10574087]

>>10573970
Master of engineering

[Anonymous No.10574093]

>>10574085
Why do you take so many electives?

[Anonymous No.10574119]

>>10574093
Not sure. This is Melbourne University

[Anonymous No.10574123]

>>10574119
Oh, right. I'm fairly sure I've heard they follow the 3+2 model, where your undergrad is fairly broad and it's expected you do a 2 year Masters to 'complete' their program.

[Anonymous No.10574135]

>>10574123
yeah, is it a scam? should i go to a different uni to do engineering?

[Anonymous No.10574150]

>>10574135
I don't know much about engineering in Victoria, but from the looks of it, Monash does a 4 degree that has the same accreditation as UniMelb. They're both Go8 so you shouldn't have to worry about reputation or doors being shut to you, but it wouldn't hurt to scope out the level of industry outreach at both unis. UniMelb would give you more flexibility to do a double degree and dabble in other things, but if you're set on engineering I think you'd be better off saving the extra year.

Sandstones like melb can be more theoretically focused with little practical exposure at all, which can be a negative depending on what you want to get from your degree.

[Anonymous No.10574154]

>>10574150
Alright thanks, but what do you think about software eng at unimelb?

[Anonymous No.10574188]

Chinese, clearly

[Anonymous No.10574238]

double major in maths and comp sci

or just study physics

[Anonymous No.10574245]

>>10573919
>/sci/ often rants about how comp sci majors are full of brainlets. This is 100% true.

European CS major here. Can widely confirm the claim: I'm not genius but a large portion of my peers show to have no idea what they're dealing with. It's difficult to share enthusiasm with them and if you do, you risk to be confined for appearing above their level.

[Anonymous No.10574303]

>>10574065
t. butthurt CE major wasting his time studying material he'll never use in the real world