You are really setting yourself up for either disapointment, failure or both. If you get to wrapped up in what the problem in your assignment is and not what the methods for solving it are, then you will have a very hard time solving much more interesting problems later.
I will readily agree that many CS professors are intelligent but maybe not the best teachers. Don't let that limit what you learn though. The classes that most people tend to do the worst in are the ones where they blame the prof about their failure to learn anything. Take the matter into your own hands and teach yourself or find different teachers.
Also, from what I've seen CS leave school in the $35000-65000 range whereas MIS leave with $28000-45000 and less room for advancement in a development related field due to their typically weaker dev skills.
Although each major has different distinct sets of skills, those skill sets very in the difficulty of obtaining them.
CE > CS > MIS
All different but from what I've seen (Senior in college && a little bit of work in industry), it seems that the guarenteed minimum although not the maximum falls into the above ordering.
I know MIS people who couldn't code a 'hello world' and I also know MIS people who are pulling down $200,000 and are brilliant coders with more of an interest in the business sides of things.
Your degree speaks mainly of your background not of your potential.
Not always. At least at Iowa State University, the engineering degrees are somewhat flexible between EE && CE but are still strictly tracked from you freshman year to your senior year.
Also, CS is in LAS !Engineering, which means that CS takes around 40 credits in arts && humanities, social sciences and what not. Engineering takes around 9.
Very different programs from day one.
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I will readily agree that many CS professors are intelligent but maybe not the best teachers. Don't let that limit what you learn though. The classes that most people tend to do the worst in are the ones where they blame the prof about their failure to learn anything. Take the matter into your own hands and teach yourself or find different teachers.
Also, from what I've seen CS leave school in the $35000-65000 range whereas MIS leave with $28000-45000 and less room for advancement in a development related field due to their typically weaker dev skills.
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CE > CS > MIS
All different but from what I've seen (Senior in college && a little bit of work in industry), it seems that the guarenteed minimum although not the maximum falls into the above ordering.
I know MIS people who couldn't code a 'hello world' and I also know MIS people who are pulling down $200,000 and are brilliant coders with more of an interest in the business sides of things.
Your degree speaks mainly of your background not of your potential.
Not always. At least at Iowa State University, the engineering degrees are somewhat flexible between EE && CE but are still strictly tracked from you freshman year to your senior year. Also, CS is in LAS !Engineering, which means that CS takes around 40 credits in arts && humanities, social sciences and what not. Engineering takes around 9. Very different programs from day one.