Is Computer Science the right major for me?

hadsed
Fri, 14 May 2010 01:05:20 +0000

^ Good point and good links. It can almost be beneficial not to have had too much experience programming, since some of the things you teach yourself will invariably need to be forgotten. Hot shot teen coders do well the first semester or so but (often, but not always) hit a wall by sophomore year when how they write their code is the point of the course… anybody can hack together a program, but to do it right takes training.

Completely agree. The only way to get through this sort of thing is with a good attitude, most of these guys are pretty arrogant so that’s kind of out the window.

And yes, the way I learned a lot was through looking at blocks of code and breaking it down to see how each piece worked to do something. Once you do a bit of testing on your own you find that you can do a lot with minimal knowledge, and it’s a very rewarding feeling!