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Check out the actual curriculum and determine if you would be learning stuff that you wouldn't easily be able to learn on your own. You can get by in software d

Check out the actual curriculum and determine if you would be learning stuff that you wouldn't easily be able to learn on your own. You can get by in software development without ever writing a compiler, converting automata, or hunting for K5 in a jumble of lines but I would argue those things can contribute positively to analytic thinking and in those situations where there is a parallel, you can have an intuitive edge. Cross-disciplinary knowledge can be a great advantage as well, physics and economics mesh quite well with computation. In my experience, a CS minor is generally a plus on a resume if you are a recent grad, less so if you graduated 10 years ago and haven't worked on related projects or in development roles.

gusgordon 14y ago
Okay, thanks. It seems to me, though, that having done good work on side projects would be much more of an advantage than a CS minor, especially if I have something I built to show people. If I minored in CS, people might see, for example, side projects as a result of my minor. If I did CS on my own it would show I was more curious and entrepreneurial. I'm probably over analyzing it, but I don't want to do a lot of extra work for something that is going to do relatively little for me. I mean, I feel like if I just said, "I took a few computer science classes", that that would be equivalent in most people's minds to a minor. I'm probably over analyzing, but do you see where I'm coming from? Still not quite sure.