I can't believe so many people have this misconception. Computer science is not programming. Software engineering is programming. It's the same as physics and mechanical engineering: one side deals w/ theory, the other side deals with application.
Unfortunately, colleges and universities have not (as a whole) caught on to this little fact, and try to lump the two together. That's when you get professors who are technically brilliant, but horrible programmers; their style rubs off on their students, and everything goes to hell.
If you want to be a programmer, don't take CS as your major. Go for engineering or physics or applied math; majors that deal with computations that need to be as fast and accurate as possible.
Way back when I had an idea to write a game called System Agent Man. The basic premise was you would play an anti-virus program inside a Windows box. Your job (if you chose to accept it) was to rescue the Java VM from ActiveX, Netscape from IE, OpenGL from Direct3d, and destroy the evil Win.com app.
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I can't believe so many people have this misconception. Computer science is not programming. Software engineering is programming. It's the same as physics and mechanical engineering: one side deals w/ theory, the other side deals with application. Unfortunately, colleges and universities have not (as a whole) caught on to this little fact, and try to lump the two together. That's when you get professors who are technically brilliant, but horrible programmers; their style rubs off on their students, and everything goes to hell. If you want to be a programmer, don't take CS as your major. Go for engineering or physics or applied math; majors that deal with computations that need to be as fast and accurate as possible.
Way back when I had an idea to write a game called System Agent Man. The basic premise was you would play an anti-virus program inside a Windows box. Your job (if you chose to accept it) was to rescue the Java VM from ActiveX, Netscape from IE, OpenGL from Direct3d, and destroy the evil Win.com app.
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