Comments on: Computer Science vs. Computer Engineering

By: College Advice for Programming?

College Advice for Programming? — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:38:33 +0000

[...] I actually wrote a blog on this two years ago: Computer Science vs. Computer Engineering | Compiled Thoughts | John Ciacia But, I can offer some additional notes on what I have learned: – If you want to write software, [...]

By: Agatha

Agatha — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:57:12 +0000

Thanks a lot for your article! I'm having the exact problem right now and despite plenty of researches and asking of questions to various forums I still had no clue and I think they just left me more conflicted than before.

I'm wondering though, when you become a computer engineer would you still get to do programming in your free time? Will take your advice and switch majors if ever. I really want to program but I also want to deal with hardware. So yeah that's my problem. But the thing is that in the college available to me high-level coding isn't really touched. So I would have to self-learn if ever which is also good with me,.. But am still having doubts XD

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:20:02 +0000

Örjan, thanks for the comment!

By: Örjan

Örjan — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:09:46 +0000

Nice written! It's all true what you say, there are so many fields about computers, even so you in this wrote about the "hard" sides of computers, more of hardware in electrical engineering, more of programming in computer science, still rather "hard" side. Then we have more soft majors in computing. There is software engineering and there is information systems, both is tight connected to computer science, but they are softer that it. I currently study information systems, and it gives me two sides of the same coin, as we both study a lot of programming, but our main aspect is how to design software. Both in the way of using good methods of planning a software build before the hard coding phase, but also on the management part. Should we design a software working accordingly to the business processes or shall we use a standard software and change business processes. Enterprise resource planning and other software systems where the soft parts is becoming harder.

By: MathX

MathX — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:50:07 +0000

I am relatively new to programming. I have been doing VB6 for a while, now I am doing my best to learn C++.

I don't like anything specific with programming YET, couse I only know things in general at the moment.

But I like writing programs that solve mathematical problems.

By: Hi :) - CodeCall Programming Forum

Hi :) - CodeCall Programming Forum — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:30:26 +0000

By: John

John — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:59:00 +0000

Glad you enjoyed it m8. Anything particular with programming you like? Parallel programming? Algorithms? AI?

By: MathX

MathX — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:42:15 +0000

I just registered at university, CS!

I really hate working with hardware so I decided to get into CS.

Great blog John!

By: Philip Matuskiewicz

Philip Matuskiewicz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:54:53 +0000

Nice explanation of the difference!

By: John

John — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:59:55 +0000

There is a good chance we are in it. I know we have an IEEE SA and I know all engineering SA's on campus have a battle bots competition at the end of the year. But I will look into it next semester.