CS majors

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Best bet is double major in CS and something else, or get an engineering degree and minor in CS.
Best schools for CS related interests with the job market now and for the forseeable future: MIT, Stanford, CMU, ivies with real engineering , JHU, Rice, Northwestern, UCB, GT.

This 1000%! You are much more marketable with an engineering degree (or something else) and minoring in CS, or heck just taking a few courses. My kid majored in Chem Engineering, uses CS in their research (machine learning/AI focused) and will be getting MS in Chem Eng and AI. Very marketable. The key to CS is to have other knowledge base that you are applying with the CS (hence Engineering). Those jobs wont disappear

Interesting. My kid is a Freshman Chem E major. Never thought about the minor in CS. CS was one of his favorite classes this year.

Mine didn't minor in CS....just took 3-4 courses, decided not to minor but did research using ML/AI for 2+ years and will be at CMU for CHE/AI program. Smart people don't need the actual CSdegree, they just use CS/AI as a tool with their other set of knowledge and right now having that other knowledge is very beneficial.

ChemE in general is all about knowledge in a variety of areas, that can make you more beneficial than a BME or MechE, etc.

This is really a silly remark. There are many responses of kids getting great jobs as CS majors…probably the kids who really like CS.

I mean…there are kids dropping out of school and creating billion dollar companies (mainly software/AI companies) so it would seem smart people don’t need any degree at all, so not sure why you are babbling on about ChemE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best bet is double major in CS and something else, or get an engineering degree and minor in CS.
Best schools for CS related interests with the job market now and for the forseeable future: MIT, Stanford, CMU, ivies with real engineering , JHU, Rice, Northwestern, UCB, GT.

This 1000%! You are much more marketable with an engineering degree (or something else) and minoring in CS, or heck just taking a few courses. My kid majored in Chem Engineering, uses CS in their research (machine learning/AI focused) and will be getting MS in Chem Eng and AI. Very marketable. The key to CS is to have other knowledge base that you are applying with the CS (hence Engineering). Those jobs wont disappear

Interesting. My kid is a Freshman Chem E major. Never thought about the minor in CS. CS was one of his favorite classes this year.

Mine didn't minor in CS....just took 3-4 courses, decided not to minor but did research using ML/AI for 2+ years and will be at CMU for CHE/AI program. Smart people don't need the actual CSdegree, they just use CS/AI as a tool with their other set of knowledge and right now having that other knowledge is very beneficial.

ChemE in general is all about knowledge in a variety of areas, that can make you more beneficial than a BME or MechE, etc.

This is really a silly remark. There are many responses of kids getting great jobs as CS majors…probably the kids who really like CS.

I mean…there are kids dropping out of school and creating billion dollar companies (mainly software/AI companies) so it would seem smart people don’t need any degree at all, so not sure why you are babbling on about ChemE.

+1. That chemical person is so weird

[Anonymous]

I sometimes wonder if the folks claiming CS is dead are confused or are trying to scare away potential competition.

Folks who go into CS and take rigorous courses (examples: compilers, assembly, embedded / real-time systems, kernel programming, advanced networking, VHDL or Verilog, applied cryptography) are perpetually in shortage.

I am ALWAYS looking for people who know C programming, POSIX APIs, ARM assembly, command-line debuggers (such as gdb or kgdb), and embedded systems. So are Apple, Canonical, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and others major tech firms.

There is, however, a surplus of applicants who skipped the rigorous upper level CS electives and instead concentrated on web programming, scripting, and such like.

Rigor matters in college -- just as it did before college.