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From: am...@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Hauben)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.misc,soc.college,sci.edu
Subject: Advice needed on relevance of Computer Science Classes/Major.
Date: 12 Jan 1993 03:07:22 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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I would like to be able to study and contribute to the new
field of computer networking and telecommunications.
 
Is Computer Science a valuable major as an undergraduate
student? Or is it at most *training* for a job?
 
Data Structures
Discrete Math
Fundamental Algorithms
Software Design Laboratory
Computer organization
 
lead to the  possibility of taking
 
Operating Systems
and
Computing Networks
 
I have already taken Introduction to Computer Science /
Programming in the Scheme dialect of Lisp, and a 1-point C
programming language course.
 
What I would like to know, from those both currently in the
major, and those working outside of academia in the computer
industry, is if the computer science major is worthwhile. If
it does represent an education and not just a training?
 
I am currently trying to figure out my approach for
determining my major. So, any help or advice would be
appreciated.
 
        Thanks,
        -Michael Hauben
        hau...@columbia.edu or am...@cleveland.freenet.edu