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- From: am893@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Hauben)
- Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.misc,soc.college,sci.edu
- Subject: Advice needed on relevance of Computer Science Classes/Major.
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 03:07:22 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: am893@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Hauben)
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- I would like to be able to study and contribute to the new
- field of computer networking and telecommunications.
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- Is Computer Science a valuable major as an undergraduate
- student? Or is it at most *training* for a job?
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- Data Structures
- Discrete Math
- Fundamental Algorithms
- Software Design Laboratory
- Computer organization
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- lead to the possibility of taking
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- Operating Systems
- and
- Computing Networks
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- I have already taken Introduction to Computer Science /
- Programming in the Scheme dialect of Lisp, and a 1-point C
- programming language course.
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- What I would like to know, from those both currently in the
- major, and those working outside of academia in the computer
- industry, is if the computer science major is worthwhile. If
- it does represent an education and not just a training?
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- I am currently trying to figure out my approach for
- determining my major. So, any help or advice would be
- appreciated.
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- Thanks,
- -Michael Hauben
- hauben@columbia.edu or am893@cleveland.freenet.edu
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