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Hell yes, computer software engineering.

1) Screw those random tests that tell you what you should be, be what you want to be.
2) I'm lovin' the comp. sci. major :D (As for the 'are there jobs' part, think about how many computers are around you, have a cell phone? mp3 player? TV?)

Well, it's a good job area to enter, plenty of money in that industry. If it was me in your position though, i'd worry about how boring the work you're going to do for the rest of your life would be.

I couldn't stand a boring job.

Do whatever will allow us to go to college together. :D

But seriously, take classes on what you enjoy, as long as there's a major for it.

Do what you love.

Do whatever you like is the simplest thing to say, and probably the best as well.

If you go to a liberal arts college, definitely take a comp sci course or two your first semester/quarter/whatever. But I'd say also to not commit yourself to that yet if you're not entirely sure that's what you want to do. Give yourself opportunities to take classes in stuff you haven't really dealt with yet, if possible, to see if anything really strikes your fancy. That's what I did. When I entered college I was pretty sure I wanted to go into weather, but decided against going into a pure meteorology program and instead entered a more general physics major. After 4 years, no other area in physics has gotten the same interest for me as meteorology, so I've applied for grad schools in atmospheric science.

haha golfkid, I'm doing atmospheric science as well :D

But since I go to Canterbury, I can tell you that the college of engineering here is the best in the country. So there's no trouble there. I'm pretty sure the first year of engineering is the same for all students, whether it's electrical, civil, mechanical, whatever. So that would give you plenty of time to decide. There is also a lot of info about on some days for anything you want to know about a particular field. I know for a fact that they use pizza (Spagalimi's) as encouragement.

Silly me, I just realised that COSC is different from the rest of engineering (because it's not really engineering), and that one of my best mates is taking it. The first year of it is pretty easy, he's not a whiz with computers and got an A+.
I definitely recommend getting as much info as you can on the open day, on a range of things. But stay away from a BA. Engineering and some of BSc are the safe bets.

But definitely do something you enjoy. It's why I take geography.

If you do choose an engineering path, it's almost guaranteed success afterwards if you get good marks.

Destiny wrote:Well, it's a good job area to enter, plenty of money in that industry. If it was me in your position though, i'd worry about how boring the work you're going to do for the rest of your life would be.

I couldn't stand a boring job.

Programming is definitely not boring work. Definitely not.

Neither is studio art. If you got a portfolio handy...

Wow, they're all hardware-level computer engineering courses before COSC121 comes out of nowhere.

Inspired wrote:ENGR101 - An Introduction into engineering concepts and design by designing and building creative solutions to problems.

At first glance, I was really, really hoping that this was "Introduction to English for Japanese students and other non-native Asian speakers."

Computer science is programming, computer engineering is hardware, what you have posted has absolutely jack shit to do with hardware.

smartalco wrote:Computer science is programming, computer engineering is hardware, what you have posted has absolutely jack shit to do with hardware.

How many computer engineering curricula have you looked at? Cuz everything on his list except the last two is directly related to a computer engineering major.

Tsukatu wrote:

smartalco wrote:Computer science is programming, computer engineering is hardware, what you have posted has absolutely jack shit to do with hardware.

How many computer engineering curricula have you looked at? Cuz everything on his list except the last two is directly related to a computer engineering major.

No, they are related to engineering in general. Every engineering major at KU has to take basically that curriculum. (Minus the EMTH171 and COSC121). It doesn't matter if you are CS, Architecture, Mechanical, Aero, whatever. Those classes are the engineering equivalent of gen-eds. But then he throws what looks to me to be programming 101 in there, and I'm wondering where the comp engineering is? (It is very possible this university chooses to give you some programming experience before going hardware, but I have no evidence to support that).

smartalco wrote:

Tsukatu wrote:

smartalco wrote:Computer science is programming, computer engineering is hardware, what you have posted has absolutely jack shit to do with hardware.

How many computer engineering curricula have you looked at? Cuz everything on his list except the last two is directly related to a computer engineering major.

No, they are related to engineering in general. Every engineering major at KU has to take basically that curriculum. (Minus the EMTH171 and COSC121). It doesn't matter if you are CS, Architecture, Mechanical, Aero, whatever. Those classes are the engineering equivalent of gen-eds. But then he throws what looks to me to be programming 101 in there, and I'm wondering where the comp engineering is? (It is very possible this university chooses to give you some programming experience before going hardware, but I have no evidence to support that).

Well, yeah, I imagine he's just posted a first-year track, judging by the course levels. The CE course here is essentially a joint major between CS and EE but everything only kicks in during sophomore or junior years; it sounds like this is the same sort of thing.

It should really be called Computational Science, not Computer Science, seeing that it's about computers in the same way that astronomy is about telescopes.

They are all related to engineering in general because that's how Canterbury works.
First year, all engineers have 5 courses which they must take, then three to begin to specialise.
It isn't until the second year when you really begin to go into a specific field of study.