Comment Re:CS vs IT (Score 1) 380
CS & IT obviously have different strong areas... you don't need to be a CS major to know how to deploy large ERP information systems like SAP on oracle clusters - although it will help if you are developing SAP itself - to make a lot of money. nor do you need CS to write simulation software for NASA if you're already a Math or Physics major, and if you are a math genious anyway you'd have no problem with CS.
IT majors don't have classes like calculus III, or numerical methods, or sometimes even physics II (although most require physics i) - which makes sense because of its science (BS) foundation. you learn how to solve problems and apply proven scientific/engineering research methods using programming languages like c++, java.
IT majors usually are under the arts (BA) discipline and so classes are more about SDLC, the business envirnment and how the systems apply to them - you practically are given the tools to learn to align IT tools with business objectives. quite different focus - a geophysicist generally don't care as much about how his simulation software affects finance division's ERP when he writes a program and vice versa, an ABAP programmer integrating SAP with their legacy system could care less what their scientists are inventing using their simulation software. both programs will allow you to pursue your dream - it'd help you a lot more to really define what is that dream and if you backed that dream with good foundation classes in high school.
my ex-boss at baylor college of medicine has a master's degree in CS but he's pigeonholed writing applications managing grants whereas our statisticians write applications all day long using SAS making a ton of money and one might say that is more IT oriented but they are BS majors in statistics. you'll always find environments with these types of exceptions. you don't need to go with just CS either if you want to be in research or be a scientist. you can go for engineering, physics, or math majors (they all require at least 1 programming class now) as well to realize your inventive aspirations and master your programming skills along the way, and maybe cap it later on with a graduate degree in cs.
IT majors don't have classes like calculus III, or numerical methods, or sometimes even physics II (although most require physics i) - which makes sense because of its science (BS) foundation. you learn how to solve problems and apply proven scientific/engineering research methods using programming languages like c++, java.
IT majors usually are under the arts (BA) discipline and so classes are more about SDLC, the business envirnment and how the systems apply to them - you practically are given the tools to learn to align IT tools with business objectives. quite different focus - a geophysicist generally don't care as much about how his simulation software affects finance division's ERP when he writes a program and vice versa, an ABAP programmer integrating SAP with their legacy system could care less what their scientists are inventing using their simulation software. both programs will allow you to pursue your dream - it'd help you a lot more to really define what is that dream and if you backed that dream with good foundation classes in high school.
my ex-boss at baylor college of medicine has a master's degree in CS but he's pigeonholed writing applications managing grants whereas our statisticians write applications all day long using SAS making a ton of money and one might say that is more IT oriented but they are BS majors in statistics. you'll always find environments with these types of exceptions. you don't need to go with just CS either if you want to be in research or be a scientist. you can go for engineering, physics, or math majors (they all require at least 1 programming class now) as well to realize your inventive aspirations and master your programming skills along the way, and maybe cap it later on with a graduate degree in cs.
