Or should I just get a masters?

4/30/2011 9:55:42 AM

OJT

4/30/2011 9:58:01 AM

TWW

4/30/2011 10:03:43 AM

depends on what you your goal in life is.

psychology
neuroscience
biostatistics

are good, but i doubt you are working towards becoming a scientist/researcher.

so perhaps

math
stats
OR
business
EE
OM
logistics
SC
ME

4/30/2011 10:09:57 AM

I'm up for anything, I'll just have a decent bit of money left over from my GI Bill when I get my CSC degree, so wondering what I should do it.

4/30/2011 10:13:07 AM

With an engineering degree (AE, CHE, ME) you would be great in programming simulations. I interviewed for a position with NAVSEA where missle explosion modeling would have been part of the job. Two full on majors would be pretty overqualified, so a minor in those might have been good enough. Physics might be a decent fit too.

Otherwise I'm not really sure what 'career' majors would go with it. I'd say math or stats as well to augment what your programs are capable of. Hell I think you have to take a lot of math classes anyway. Seems to me that more often than not a CSC is just dropped into a job and told what needs to come out of the program. I know a few who work at a medical device company who likely never used a syringe in their life but have programmed the brains of the devices.

Not sure what the advantages of a CSC masters is, though BigMan157 is doing that now

4/30/2011 10:24:29 AM

Philosophy

4/30/2011 10:31:24 AM

If you like the statistics side of things (applied part at least) check out the analytics program.

http://analytics.ncsu.edu/

4/30/2011 10:32:49 AM

If you want to be a developer, take more software engineering courses. I wish I had, and I am a developer I was a computer Engineer though not Csc.

4/30/2011 10:40:43 AM

CSC is basically the best degree, nowadays. Everything boils down to some sort of software development. Plenty of jobs, broad applicability, high pay, high mobility.

4/30/2011 12:42:40 PM

CSC FTW!!!

PSY will help you with UI design
Or law if you want to work with patents.

I don't think I'd bother getting a masters in CSC. Maybe an MBA one day.

4/30/2011 1:35:23 PM

Either nothing else or an MBA. Most of the dual degree people I work with are CSC and engineering (civil, computer/electrical, or mechanical) but we specifically design engineering apps. MBA gives you much more manager marketability. Honestly, its less about what degrees you have and more about how well you can program and learn new stuff. You really don't need to have the specific target knowledge for software unless its very niche. You are better off knowing someone that does that second field as their primary knowledge and is good at communicating and has basic programming knowledge to assist.

Just to note, some of the most successful and most brilliant programmers I know never went to college or went later in life (just to satisfy a promotion requirement).

[Edited on April 30, 2011 at 2:06 PM. Reason : .]

4/30/2011 2:05:33 PM

mathematics or communication.

4/30/2011 3:26:50 PM

^^

4/30/2011 3:30:47 PM

By the way... it's hardly what you know. It's who you know.

What you know can always be learned on the job.

4/30/2011 3:37:04 PM

I know you guys...you should hire me.

4/30/2011 3:51:00 PM

We've got job openings, if you are interested in moving to Boston.

4/30/2011 4:27:23 PM

Haha, I need to move back to NC to finish my degree first.

4/30/2011 4:30:04 PM

yeah, a masters in CSC is pretty worthless, unless you want to get a PhD. Even the grad students in CSC will tell you this

4/30/2011 9:03:19 PM

Do something you enjoy and want to learn more about.

4/30/2011 11:27:32 PM

degree 180

5/1/2011 12:45:33 AM

Given your prior employment my company might be interested later

But yeah, a CSC degree is great on its own. Like I said above, other degrees would be more for supplementing your own knowledge to better get into a given area. Once there you'd learn or be taught what you need in order to program away

5/1/2011 1:05:07 AM

if you have any interest in something quant-related, try math (specifically stochastic processes) or stat. there is plenty to do in that area, especially in the NYC or Chicago areas. (Or overseas, if you're cool with it.)

5/1/2011 8:41:00 AM

Don't do the masters unless you want to stay closer to the academic side of CSC for your career

A second bachelors degree will be much more useful. I got my first job as a software developer not because I have a CSC degree but because I have a minor in physics

^ TONS of money in finance right now. I get recruiter inquiries from NYC for finance positions at least once a month

5/1/2011 8:55:08 AM

So a physics minor or something finance related?

5/1/2011 9:07:43 AM

So a physics minor or something finance related?

5/1/2011 9:09:16 AM

Well, not necessarily a physics major - just pointing out how experience in a non-CSC field worked for me, as opposed to a masters in CSC. Any secondary major will provide useful

Which one just depends on your interests, what industry you want to get into, whether you want to primarily be a developer in your career, stuff like that. Keep in mind chances are pretty good that what you are doing in 5 years will will be drastically different than 10, 15, 20 years from now.

5/1/2011 9:24:59 AM

Oh I understand that, I'm just trying to get a good grasp on what I want to do/what would be good for me. I'll be back in Raleigh in December, which might seem like a long way off, but the amount of stuff that I need to get done is absolutely ridiculous, so I'm trying to get everything planned out to hit the ground running.

5/1/2011 9:35:17 AM

I've contemplated getting a masters in CSC after I finish up...I'm just bored...and school is soooo much fun.

5/1/2011 1:21:06 PM

the fuck is CSC?

5/1/2011 6:25:26 PM

Computer Science.

5/1/2011 6:44:29 PM

Go to law school, having the comp sci background makes understanding law a helluvalot easier

5/1/2011 11:42:44 PM