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Computer Studies w/o Excessive Coding?
Peterus7 asks: "I'm a student at the University of Washington, and I was planning on majoring in Computer Science or Informatics until I took Computer science, and I'm realizing that it's simply beyond me. I grew up with computers, and naturally I want to study a field that involves a lot of interaction between people and technology (mainly computers), but the Intro to Java class I'm taking now is driving me over the edge. Any suggestions for a technologically intensive field that doesn't require ungodly amounts of coding, or perhaps any general methods for surviving computer science courses for new students?"
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I'm taking a degree in Baking, but I don't like kneading dough. Can anyone suggest a university where I can get by the minimum amount of getting flour on my paws?
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My university had 3 different computer related majors. CS, IS, and MIS. CS was for people who understood math, theory, and coding. IS was for people who don't understand theory, have some math, and could code. MIS was for people who had no clue about math, theory, or coding. They usually became your boss.
If you want to use Maya in an advanced way, you do have to study. For example, there's MEL scripting.
Not to mention all the, uh, art stuff. I hear they have degrees in art these days.
Hey everyone, I want to work in a really cool field, but I don't want to learn anything that goes into that field... can anyone help?
Come on people... if the guy can't handle basic CS courses, then this is probably *NOT* the field for him. Face it, to work in most computer technology fields, you must have atleast a passing understanding of programming. Unless you're a MCSE.
The solution: Go into politics. It seems that many of the "distinguished" politicians (in the US) claim to understand or have invented much of our technology... of course, we all know that's bull.
Does it make a difference? I had one teacher who would write examples in Ada, Pascal, C, Scheme, Prolog, COBOL, his own made up language. . . Occationally there would be notation we had to ask about (for dereferencing and such), but for the most part, programming is programming. So long as you understand the three main paradigms (imperative, functional, and logical), reading simple examples in the language should be trivial.
Here's some pseudocode I wrote earlier this semester:
C, C++, Perl, and some mathematical notation. Why use fake English when fake programming is more concise?