Picking up CS really late.....Advice

GLOBALTRAVELER
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:28:05 +0000

It doesn’t matter if the degree is CS, IS, IT, Math or Physics or even Business. As long as you have the following, you will be ok…


C++ and Java Programming
Operating Systems course (and prereqs)
Computer Networks course (and prereqs)
Database Systems course (and prereqs)
Systems/Software Engineering course (and prereqs)


Most jobs are IT-related anyway. For every 1 or 2 jobs doing compiler design, there are 100 database/operating systems/network jobs. For a typical corporation, they are developing software for either internal or external customers using databases running over operating systems and networks. A systems or software engineering methodology (waterfall, scrum, whatever) will be used to development, testing and deployment.

If you happen to get into more scientific software development, then you will need the math and other prereqs.

That’s it in a nutshell.