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Computer Science or Info Tech?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the library-sciences dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am currently completing my final year of secondary schooling, and in the next few weeks I need to submit my university (or college to all you Americans) preferences for processing. I've decided that I want a career in the IT industry, but am unsure of whether to apply for a Computer Science course or an Information Technology course. I understand the difference between the two courses (CS being the study of the principles and concepts involved in Computing at a more fundamental, and often more sophisticated level, and IT being a more practical, application based approach to computing), but would like to know from anybody who has studied either or both of the courses what kinds of careers each course would lead into and what would you recommend for someone such as myself, having a broad range of interests and wishing to dabble in everything before deciding where to specialise?"

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  1. How is your math? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you like math? Are you good at it? What about algorithms? Do self-balancing binary search trees give you a boner? If you answered yes to lots of these questions, stick with Computer Science.

    On the other hand, "IT" sounds like a "Microsoft Office with some introductory Java on the side" course. You might want to find some better middle ground if you actually want to do some serious work.

    1. Re:How is your math? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      On the other hand, "IT" sounds like a "Microsoft Office with some introductory Java on the side" course.
      I'll have you know I'm an EXPERT in Java, thank you very much. No-one's right-clicked on an image on MY homepage since 1997!
  2. Re:choose scientist over technician by Organic+Brain+Damage · · Score: 4, Funny

    Consider Software Engineering if you like to write programs. Computer Science if you like to discover new algorithms. And IT if you like to golf and sit in the corporate box seats of your Fortune 2000 companies' vendors.

  3. Re:What's with that L on your forehead ? by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lots of Idiotic Serparated Parenthesis.

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  4. Re:choose scientist over technician by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So that's where I went wrong...I love golf...I'm such an idiot...stupid CS degree.

  5. via simple modern day resume skills by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 2, Funny

    It makes me wonder: how do these people even get these jobs?

    They lie through their teeth.

    next question.

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