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Don't go to a school that teaches programming. There are many fine schools besides MIT, CMU, Caltech, etc. Saying you should disregard CS as your major because
by b3b0p 16y ago
Don't go to a school that teaches programming.
There are many fine schools besides MIT, CMU, Caltech, etc. Saying you should disregard CS as your major because you aren't able to attend one of the elite schools is downright depressing. There are many great schools for an undergraduate that have an excellent CS curriculum.
Any programming at the schools I attended were optional 0 credit labs. And except for the CS 1 and 2 intro classes, there was no designated programming language, you could use any language you wanted. Some chose Ruby, Python, or Java while some others chose C or C++. They were more concerned about your ability to design and implement a proper working solution to the problem given.
- hga 16y agoI agree it's depressing, but if your goal is to continue "programming" past age 35-40 I'm not sure you can make the case for others. See my other posting discussing autodidacticism. However, there is one caveat: if you go into embedded or get a serious security clearance and stick to government work that required it, you can with much less difficultly continue programming. In the former case the field appears to respect gray hairs, in the latter, it's pretty hard to get the first job (they can't have you working on classified stuff until you get your clearance and you can't apply for or hold one without a job requiring it) so once you have your "tickets" you're in very good shape.