There are also some other newer degrees then CS, CIS, MIS, etc. My university also offers an Informatics & a New Media degree as well.
Informatics seems to roughly be the organization of information using computers. This comes down to Library & Information sciences within programming, database, & web organization frame.
New Media is more of a multimedia atmosphere. Ours has specializations in game design, 3D modeling, web content (graphic presentation & interaction), & other such related topics.
My university also offers the standard CS [aka CSCI](programming, but mostly theory), Computer Engingeering (hardware, electronics, programming), Computer Technology (hardware, networking, sys administration, security, some programming) (business & technical specialization tracks as well), & of course the Informatics & New Media degrees. Some of these programs even offer an MS in five years (start going for the BS & get an MS with one extra year put in).
Really, there are some great options out there. & many of these various degrees make it easy to rack up math & other minors or even double major with just an extra course or two.
Iirc (since this was big news much further back in the summer), it is meant as a restriction of video ARCADE games, not computer games in general. This new law is to stop "children" from being subjected to "violence" where their parents may not have control. (like when jr & the gang are dropped at the mall for hours)
We've had a few stores who have carded kids for years when purchasing computer games, but that is & was voluntary. Anyway, Stompfest (large LAN party) probably would have seen some media hype if the law had incorporated computer games as such.
Tirla
P.S. Just for the record our permit age is 15 & our (very restriced, but that's another law story) license age is 16.?. (Something like 16 & 2 months or so...)
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There are also some other newer degrees then CS, CIS, MIS, etc. My university also offers an Informatics & a New Media degree as well.
Informatics seems to roughly be the organization of information using computers. This comes down to Library & Information sciences within programming, database, & web organization frame.
New Media is more of a multimedia atmosphere. Ours has specializations in game design, 3D modeling, web content (graphic presentation & interaction), & other such related topics.
My university also offers the standard CS [aka CSCI](programming, but mostly theory), Computer Engingeering (hardware, electronics, programming), Computer Technology (hardware, networking, sys administration, security, some programming) (business & technical specialization tracks as well), & of course the Informatics & New Media degrees. Some of these programs even offer an MS in five years (start going for the BS & get an MS with one extra year put in).
Really, there are some great options out there. & many of these various degrees make it easy to rack up math & other minors or even double major with just an extra course or two.
Iirc (since this was big news much further back in the summer), it is meant as a restriction of video ARCADE games, not computer games in general. This new law is to stop "children" from being subjected to "violence" where their parents may not have control. (like when jr & the gang are dropped at the mall for hours)
We've had a few stores who have carded kids for years when purchasing computer games, but that is & was voluntary. Anyway, Stompfest (large LAN party) probably would have seen some media hype if the law had incorporated computer games as such.
Tirla
P.S. Just for the record our permit age is 15 & our (very restriced, but that's another law story) license age is 16.?. (Something like 16 & 2 months or so...)