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#1 2007-06-28 7:11 pm
New Degree Path
So I talked with my advisor today and I'm getting an AAS in Web Development/Programming which will still allow me to go to the UW Tacoma. I don't need to take a whole bunch of bull smurf math and science classes now! YAY!
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#2 2007-06-28 10:00 pm
- Aqua OS X
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Re: New Degree Path
so what exactly do you want to do after college?
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#3 2007-06-28 10:49 pm
Re: New Degree Path
Anything I want to do lol. With the money I'm getting from the VA, I don't really have to have a job. I'm interested in web design and programming in PHP and Java. I'm pretty much just going to school to learn how to do what I want to do. If I work, I want it to be on my terms and I want it to be something that I enjoy.
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#4 2007-07-01 11:33 pm
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Well, best of luck with that.
That said, considering it's not 1997, and web developers / designers without BA's / BS's are a dime a dozen, I'd recommend getting a four year degree. 
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#5 2007-07-01 11:46 pm
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Don't discount math and science classes. I took a lot that I didn't need to and was glad later.
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#6 2007-07-02 12:54 am
Re: New Degree Path
Aqua OS X wrote:
Well, best of luck with that.
That said, considering it's not 1997, and web developers / designers without BA's / BS's are a dime a dozen, I'd recommend getting a four year degree.
I'm still getting my BS in Computer Science, its just a different way of getting there.
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#7 2007-07-02 1:45 am
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Yeah, that's smart.
Working on your own terms is nice, in principle. Yet you'll really want to, at the very least, have the option to work for established companies. I see a lot of people who get burned-out on the independent contractor circuit.
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#9 2007-08-06 9:46 pm
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You can get a BS in CS without math or science 
A lot of required CS courses at my school involve the use of calculus (which is why math is part of the program).
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#10 2007-08-07 7:50 pm
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Re: New Degree Path
Mr. T wrote:
You can get a BS in CS without math or science
Yeah I'm a little shocked here as well. Where I went to school a BSc: CS required 1st and 2nd year Advanced Calculus, 1st and 2nd year Linear Algebra, Introductory Statistical Mathematics, a course in discrete math and proof as well as several Comp. Sci. math courses (logic, etc.).
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#11 2007-08-08 2:57 am
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I'd go with the extra math courses. Hell, I am taking extra math courses, and it isn't even required by my major. You can never have enough math.
But hey, if you don't need to work, then you can do whatever the smurf you want to.
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#12 2007-08-08 9:08 am
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I'm getting a math minor by taking two math electives in addition to what's already required, and one of them counts towards my second major 
Take the math, you can find some really cool teachers in there if you're lucky, though math is more needed for C, object, etc. programming, I haven't seen it needed as much in web programming (pages anyways applets I'm sure they do need it)
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#13 2007-08-15 6:38 pm
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Chickenhawk wrote:
I'd go with the extra math courses. Hell, I am taking extra math courses, and it isn't even required by my major. You can never have enough math.
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