Computer Science vs Information Systems vs Certifications

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[MENTION=20941]Camfer[/MENTION] made a few good points about CS, not only do you learn how to write something but they go to great detail of how to write something WELL IE when to do polymorphism, inheritance and design patterns. When is an array better than a linked list and vice versa how to calculate the big oh of your run time, big alpha and omega for normal and abnormal data sets and how to improve it (here is where math starts to factor in) oh and graphics take a good deal of math, matrix multiplation and such then you got datasets and if your made to hand calculate centroids and such but most of that is simple math just allot and as kindy mentioned assembly language bwahahah its soo bad you will have comments on every line of code! AHHHHH!! we had to write a recursive method with nested for loops, was given a c++ example and told to duplaicate it... the example took like 10 lines of code, the assembly code took like 2 pages, *quivers*.

Maybe WCU is alone in its mathematics requirements, if other places only require calculus your in good shape. IMHO math doesn't get hard till writing proofs . I have often said if i knew how hard Discrete was going into it I would have did CIT.