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Yes, but my recommendation for decades has been to study CS if you want, but if anything else interests you then get a CS minor or double major. If he's designi
by Jtsummers 1y ago
Yes, but my recommendation for decades has been to study CS if you want, but if anything else interests you then get a CS minor or double major. If he's designing PCBs of his own, he may be interested in EE or CMPE as a major (and if he does CMPE, depending on the school, it's already effectively a CS minor). Programming is relatively easy to get into without a degree or with an unrelated degree, other disciplines are much more difficult to break into without the diploma.
If he's actually interested in CS, then a CS degree (or minor) makes sense. If he's interested in programming, study just about anything else and minor in CS or double major. Being an AE or MechE that has a much better than average (for the discipline) grasp on programming is a better edge career wise.
- Jtsummers 1y ago> He’s looking forward to higher level coursework but dreading the intro classes. A late addition. Your son should test out of those classes given your description of his skills. Alternatively, he should talk to his advisor and seek to skip lower level courses. He'll still need the same number of credits, but I did this to get out of three lower level math and CS courses that I already had down. Some advisors are more amenable to this than others, though.