[Novalug] Teaching Computers Science

[Ben Creitz]

On 9/26/07, contact at jlleblanc.com <contact at jlleblanc.com> wrote:
> If I had to do it over again, I would have majored in Computer Science
> (math, writing compliers and all) and minored in Business. I would
> also recommend this to anyone considering Business vs. some other
> discipline (aside from Finance or Accounting). A business minor
> (usually accounting, economics, marketing, and management) has the
> most helpful components of a business degree; all the stuff after that
> tends to be case studies. But on the other hand, I also know
> successful business people who didn't go to college at all.

I have to echo this; studying the "classics" seems to pay off over and
over.  The specific, day-to-day IT stuff is better learned elsewhere.
I am in the CS Masters program in Hopkins; it really spans both CS and
IS... every time I take more IS-type course I am disappointed.  They
are usually outdated!

Ben