Computer science

Focus on getting your math skills up to par. The programming stuff will come easily.
C Primer 6th edition btw.

Don't study CS. It's great if you are in a coding or IT related field of work already, but it's awful to get a first job.

If you want to become a coder, take a bootcamp and start taking cash in hand work.

If you want to get into help desk or general IT roles, you need to do an IT degree and network like crazy.

Doing CS will not help you at this point of your life.

CS women are either gurlgamer types or girls who have to study it because their promotion depends on it. Normal women study humanities for their first degree.

>Normal women study humanities
That's why my federal state has a "Girl's Day" as well as a "MINT Day" (German ananogue of STEM) where they cart in school girls by the busloads to show them cool sciency stuff in order to get them interested and get the girl quota up.

>but have not been in a classroom in 7 years
Be dedicate,pacient and order, be the guy help others and get things done, computer science has very low barrier enter, just re study high school math in khan academy.

Coding in BA is usually finish projects in one or two weeks.

Dont show your level of power(weeb,videogame or another weird hobbies)

Lol theres been some tries at getting student loans paid off for women who study tech here

there are way more women in math for some reason. If you want to be surrounded with smelly neckbeards, go CS. If you wan't to be surrounded with incredibly bright spergs but with comical quirks, go physics. If you want spergs that are at least a bit normal, go math.

Grass is greener on the other side and im biased as fuck. Plus it depends on the uni. But you shouldn't pick a major based on girls anyway. That's retarded.

Although I now have a newfound appreciation in nerdy girls with glasses (omg they are so cute, way better than normie girls trust me).

>nerdy girls with glasses
Just avoid this fetish begin a lot good women.

Prepare for doing algebra and maths 80% of the time, 20% Java """programming""".

Some of the math will be replaced with C after the first year.

what?

Look at the classes you'll be taking. CS comes in many different flavours. If you want to be prepared for school, have a look at the courses and their requirements. Start learning those languages and reading on those subjects.
However, don't expect uni to give you everything you want to learn. You're not going to be a good programmer just because you followed the cs curriculum.

I'm working full time as a software developer (mostly self-taught) and I do have a BS in a different field of study, less technical. I am however interested in language design, fundamental principles of computing and computer graphics.

Would it make sense to start studying CS (part time)? I do read books that are required reading in CS in my own time already.

Yes

It depends on the schedule of the uni and the flexibility of your work place. I've done that for a while, but I didn't really progress until I worked full time, put money away for studies, and then finished my diploma full time.

I mean you'll probably have plenty of free time in between courses, but expect that to be filled with studying on your own, writing assignment papers, and repeating the stuff you've been taught. For ever hour of course you have to spend 1 to 1 1/2 hours on assignments and learning.

>What should I do to prepare for getting a BA in computer science?
I would read a book on basic mathematics.

>What language should I learn to get ahead?
Do you want to learn how to program our how to do Computer science?
Because if you want to learn "how to program" you don't need to enter a University and for computer science your goal shouldn't be to be able to write some programs in some language, but to gain an understanding of the theory behind computing., which mostly means MATH.

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>MATH
To be fair it's not even practical math, like solving equations, but the theory of math. Like how do you prove that something is correct, using only axioms. An you'll need all that mathematical formalism of course in your papers and the thesis.

1. Why do you want to get into computer science?
2. Do you have any related experience?
3. Are you prepared and confident to pass a college level Calculus course? May sound dumb but it blocked a lot of people I know.

If you just wanna write code, have stable income and sit at a desk all day you should drop money on a coding bootcamp instead of falling for a 'degree meme'. They do not teach you about OS and theory, instead they focus on getting you good at programming logic, in demand languages/libraries and efficient with an IDE. Also they tend to be connected with companies that just hire you if you can graduate and they are 1/4th the price of a college degree.

Also this is the only reason I am responding.

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Thank you for your response, I'll think a bit more about it!

1. I want a good job and I spend all my time on computers anyway. I sort of like coding, makes me feel smart and like I'm getting puzzles done. At least so far. I also like sitting at a computer literally all day.

2. I don't really, unless you count learning HTML when I was 13 and being intuitive with computers from an early age ( spent all my time on computers in high school ). My brother is a programmer/computer science.

3. I had pre-cal in HS but didn't go beyond that. I'm def going to have to study hard on the math calculus stuff.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

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>getting a BA and not a BS

>not getting a based computer engineering degree

For the love of God get a BS instead

What math should I study?

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Don't listen to this retard

Okay guys, what's the difference of difficulty between a BA and a BS in computer science?

I'm looking at getting a majoring, it's a 5 year program.

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Or should I get my specialist in comp sci and go through graduate school?

1. Just because you sit in front of a computer all day does not mean you will like this job. You will not be solving puzzles all day. Instead you will spend a lot of time in meetings, managing unpleasant problems and voice chatting with normal people. Majority of software jobs are filled by normies so don't expect anyone you can related too.

2. You should try learning some basics on Freecodecamp, if you can complete the entire advanced algos section then sign up for a boot camp.

3. You might as well skip getting a major then, your HS did not prepare you properly. The problem is by the time majors take and fail Calc or some theory course they get stuck. They cannot pass those courses and they can not switch majors after investing time in other compsci courses so instead they get drop and stuck in shitty help desk jobs purgatory. Same story happened to dozens of people I met in college.

I'm a Senior Dev so feel free to AMA about the journey or the work.

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Anything, since everything you could study will be necessary.
The most important thing is to get a solid grip on the basics, anything from basic algebra to the beginning of calculus.

Anyone?

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>Anyone?
If you want an answer look at the website of the University you want to apply to, that will include a much better answer then anyone here could possibly give you.
If you still have question after that ask the University directly.

Fair enough, I've already done my research on the school I'd like to attend though.
All I wanted was some real world answers, you know, from those who have been down those paths.
This is a social website after all, human interaction is encouraged.

assuming you mean 5 year masters program then it really doesn't matter if its a Ba or Bs. Probably just changes your required courses.

matrices (important) -> transposition, sum, multiplication, inversion and some other shit I can't remember, had to do with main diagonal. also vectors.

functions -> primitives, derivatives and some basic concepts of 3d functions.

discrete math -> THE most important subject in helping understand the basics of algorithms. many times I have regretted not giving enough attention to this subject. especially binary trees, and it's search functions. Also graph theory.

I don't remember much from my first year but those were concepts that were either the most difficult or the most important ones.

If you're in a country where uni is "free" or cheap then there's no reason not to give it a shot.
Don't listen to the americans who think college is a meme just because it's expensive for them.
Focus on the math and the rest will follow.

Which MacBook Pro do you have?