College advice?

[Rivers2k]

From an IT Recruiter stand point get into CS. There are soooo many avenues it can take you. I know to many people with Graduate level bio degrees that are barely making it paycheck to pay check because they cant find work. Bio degree is like art school its fun but they don't pay.

below are pay levels of people I placed recently. With these paychecks you can have some crazy fish tanks.

65k junior level analyst
85k mid level programmer
141k senior level admin
95-Hour senior analyst
105k- Data analyst
85k mid level analyst
75/hr programmer
135k Project manager

 

[ehh]

You're better off going into computer engineering than computer science. Engineers make all the money.

 

[DDK]

You're better off going into computer engineering than computer science. Engineers make all the money.

I maybe mistaken but computer science and computer engineering is the same degree. Courses for the csci degree I'm working on include computer architecture extensively which is one of my favorite subjects as I've been building computers for a while. One could argue that computer science is engineering solely on that fact that they produce a product (software).

 

[ehh]

I maybe mistaken but computer science and computer engineering is the same degree. Courses for the csci degree I'm working on include computer architecture extensively which is one of my favorite subjects as I've been building computers for a while. One could argue that computer science is engineering solely on that fact that they produce a product (software).

sorry i dont know what im talking about. i thought my unversity offered a "computer engineering" degree but they offer an "electrical and computer engineering degree" which is basically an EE degree with a minor in CS.

 

[DDK]

sorry i dont know what im talking about. i thought my unversity offered a "computer engineering" degree but they offer an "electrical and computer engineering degree" which is basically an EE degree with a minor in CS.

It seems the schools near me group the two into one major into one. The math requirements and physics are exactly the same as a engineering degree.

http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/c...neering/Pages/ComputerScienceEngineering.aspx

I do understand what your talking about though, computer science students are required to take classes like logic design as I mentioned earlier which is essentially electrical circuits such as these I've made back in the day.









So I guess at my university there the same as we are trained on how to create and minimize the costs to making circuits? Not too sure haha.

 

[ichthyogeek]

Well crap. I sucked at the electric part of Physics.

 

[DDK]

Oh dont worry too much, ohms law is basically all you need to know and you rarely use it much at all. You just need to learn your base conversions which can be very tedious. But there's three main bases you need to know which is binary(2), octal(8), and hex(16), if you know hex then you know binary and octal. But if your instructors a pain they'll make you convert into different bases like base 6 which is just a pain. (Base 10 is the number system we use. 1,2,3,4,5 etc.)

All electronic circuits are comprised of 3 things which is
AND
OR
NOT

from these three all circuits are built with a combination that is the binary numbers such as
00
01
10
11
etc.

With combining them you get into Xor, Nand and some higher level stuff but you don't need to know anything about them for a bit. Boolean algebra and karnaugh maps are very important and you need to know how to do them in your sleep. There like finding anti derivatives in calc, you just need to know how to do it. I remember Boolean algebra statements that take 10 sheets of paper to work out, its pretty rough but not really similar to electrical physics where you work with ohms and resistance.

 

[Rivers2k]

Not true at all. Not trying to sound like a jerk but I deal with this every day.

 

[Rivers2k]

You're better off going into computer engineering than computer science. Engineers make all the money.

Not true at all. Not trying to sound like a jerk but I deal with this every day. You can make good money in both fields.

 

[ehh]

Not true at all. Not trying to sound like a jerk but I deal with this every day. You can make good money in both fields.

While we all ready proved my statement about cs versus ce was wrong. My statement about engineering degrees is not "not true at all" lol

http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pay-you-back/bachelors

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money.../cheat-sheet-highest-paying-degrees/22478439/

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/personal-finance/high-paying-college-majors-2.aspx

Engineering degrees have the top average starting salary right. Cs is up there too, so yes you can make really good money. But my statement isn't completely false.