I'm on my 6th semester of CS. It's basically a degree in math, but focused on the math/theories used in computers.

Cool dude! I did philosophy at college and realized that I was going to be broke my whole life so I learned programming by myself and now I'm (supposedly) a Senior software engineer or whatever... good for you though! TBH on the field you usually specialize on just a little thing and do it over and over again, which is boring too... so doing projects on the side keep the excitement alive!! Keep making vids and doing some robotics or electronics together with software project for a video (series) would be so cooll!

As a fourth year CS student, I only learned "programming" in the first year's intro courses, and half of the classes I took in CS don't have ANY programming at all. "Programming" is only used in CS as a way to get your feet wet; my classes re-taught me most of the things I did in the "programming" courses in depth with slides and paragraphs. In all CS classes after the first year, we have to learn programming by ourselves for homework and projects, and a lot of the depth classes gives you choices on few languages (or just pen and paper) for doing homework. If you want to program, I would suggest you do a project by yourself and don't need to go to a university for it.

If you've choose CE over CS because you don't like all the math on CS then boy oh boy you have no idea what you're getting into

I'm a first year CS major and personally I love it. I love the feeling of getting a problem correct after spending sometimes hours trying to figure it out. It's honestly like crack for me.

Computer Science major here!

Yes, the subjects you learn in school are quite complicated and boring, but problem-solving is the most important thing you learn. Basically not retaining complex algorithms or math theory, but just know when those are handy and look for how to implement them. It is also a hands-on career, but it is not immediate. Once you get experience working on a tech company or maybe doing freelance, you will start working either alone or with colleagues on your own projects, there's where the fun begins.

Pretty accurate. I am finishing my senior year as a CS major right now and it has been 4 painfully boring years of struggle. Most of my time is spent doing horrific math that I will never use. 90% of the coding that I have done / learned has been on my own, outside of college. If i could go back in time and just do a coding bootcamp, I would.

Facts, I majored in mathematics and minored in CS, and there was soooo much overlap. I only had to pick up 3 extra classes to complete a CS minor

As someone just in the 2nd semester of CS, I agree that all those math and theories are boring as fuck. But I realized that in order to actually understand how and why things work in programming, all those math and theories are very needed. If you don't really care about adequate theory knowledge and are the type of person who enjoys more on improvised learning, based on the given situation, then CS is definitely not your major. I'm actually this exact type of a person, but I realized it too late, and now I just have to live and persevere with it. It is very hard and slow to change this mindset, but I'm still not giving up. Who knows, maybe I can become an entirely different person after I finish this degree.

I have the opposite story, I was in the Computer Engineering program but when it started to go in deep into circuits and electronics I noped and switched to CS. The CS program had electives like Machine Learning, Mobile Dev, and more that seemed more interesting than any of the electives in the CmpEng program.

To be completely honest, I never understood CS math. I always thought it was more of a "course that keeps your brain from rusting" so to speak. But after starting freelancing, and skipping a couple of projects that needed only some basic-intermediate understanding of probability ( which is in fact part of descrete math ) is when I realized what it helps with. You can be a programmer without math , but most of the times you will be coding simple stuff. If you need more complex solutions to problems, thats where you will seek help from somewhere. From stackoverflow or a friend that "knows maths". But what happens when your maths friend does not exist ? You will most certainly have to skip the project (in case you're a freelancer) or be just a regular part of your firm.

One of my college friends put it this way: a computer science graduate is, and should be, a borderline mathematician.

I think Software Engineering would've the appropriate degree for you as it's basically the coding parts and algorithms (practically) of CS. Depending on the Course. Although, many software engineering courses end up as CS courses and vice versa. But the overall trend of software engineering is very pro hands on :)

When I first started as freshman for coding. It was very difficult and hard that I could not understand and it was HTML. But when I learn it, I started to go on beast mode and I already passed first and second semesters. Now I’m about to pass the third semester. One thing I wanna learn at home is making games as well. My thoughts about your video is if I did not reach that goal, then I rather take law-enforcement😅

I wanted to take CS in college, but ended up getting Architecture based on my college exam rank. Did UX Design in college and finally got a job as a front-end engineer after college.

“Sitting behind a computer screen all day” Hey that’s what I want in my future.

For once, someone who made an actually realistic video of pursuing a cs degree, and not a bs top ten list that they stole from wikihow.

I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science in 2019 and I can tell you a lot of the courses are boring as hell. The course was only interesting if the professor was interested in the subject and you had an interest in it. Most of the time it was the professors that have no interest in the course they're teaching. It might have been due to the professors/instructors being good in their career, but suck at teaching, or vice versa. I loved learning algorithms and data structures (trees are my personal favorite) and learning the low-level stuff in C, C++, and Rust. Web development sucks, especially the JavaScript language, which is terrible in my opinion, OS development is interesting, and game development is interesting. I do have some regrets of not going for something like Math or Computer Engineering, but I was an Electrical Engineering major before switching to Computer Science and I dreaded those courses.

Interesting. I'm actually the exact opposite - I switched from ECE to CS, right before my third year. The pandemic affected my decision