Re:Yellow-Light Crusader Fined for Doing Math Without a License
by ghaff on Sunday April 30, 2017 @09:29PM
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Depends on the school.
At MIT, Course 6 is Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 6-3 is Computer Science and Engineering and corresponds to a classic CS degree. 6-1 is more of a classic EE degree.
Re:Yellow-Light Crusader Fined for Doing Math Without a License
by strictnein on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @06:36PM
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Historically and in practice at many schools the CompSci program came out of the EE school. To say it's not a subset is simply wrong. You think math professors were the ones wiring up early experimental computer hardware?
Sounds like a strange computer science track at your school. And subpar, to be honest.
I was in Computer Engineering, which is a subset of Electrical Engineering, and looked at transferring to Computer Science since I was more interested in software than hardware.
The two disciplines are enormously different and I'd basically have to do-over two years. Engineering forces everyone through the same fundamentals, you learn about physics, chemistry, and do outrageous amounts of math. In Computer Science it's a whole different track apart from the small amount of overlap in the programming courses.
At my university the Engineering Department was a separate entity from the entire school. Any engineering graduate was also on track to get their P.Eng. Computer Science students cannot get this without an engineering degree.