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You could also look at it as what kind of industry do you want to be entangled in. Bioinformatics seems especially interesting. Financial, banking, and tradin

• c1sc0 16y ago
  Strongly second this: there is more value in learning to code and then apply those skills on a problem set outside of IT.
• tom_b 16y ago
  To expand on this comment, I strongly feel that without deep domain-specific knowledge, new software engineers will mostly windup in IT dev/support roles in enterprise software shops - a tenuous choice for a long and satisfying career. For new students, I would recommend that most people should probably get a major in another field with a either a second major in CS or even just a minor in CS. This is mainly to make sure you have an acceptable credential to signal potential employers you have the CS "chops" to do the dev work. I wish I had done this as an undergrad. I work directly on a bioinformatics team and almost everyone doing interesting work has a biology degree (MS or PhD) even though they are mostly doing software dev. I'm also continually surprised by new CS grads who think their job will consist of being handed a list of requirements and told to write some code to solve the problem.