amkahal
Can you be more clear, this is your major for the whole life, so give us more details.
btw I have BS degree in CS from LIU univ.
GeorgeN
I'm a CS major at AUST... Now I can't compare it to other private universities, because I haven't tried CS courses in other unis ofcourse... But what I can tell you is that if you're a real CS enthusiast you'd get bored by the simplicity of the material taught... not that it implies the uni is sub par when it comes to CS, for all I know other unis could be worse. I could give you a small summary of what they teach you. first you have introduction to computing, you learn very simple things like binary / hexadecimal conversions, boolean circuits, pseudocode and flow charts, CPU instruction register and counter, how instructions are implemented in the CPU (appendix C), floating point notation, twos complement, binary arithmetic etc.... next you have your programming courses, programming I (C++) conditionals variables loops arrays switch statement types of variables functions calling by reference and references and finally a small useless lecture about pointers that they'll never test you on. Programming II they teach you about classes, objects, and concepts like composition inheritance polymorphism operator overloading friend functions, sequential files and random access files syntax, this pointer(they never test you on it).... another easy one you can do well on if you just memorize the syntax no real logical understanding of the material is required :P... To be honest i'm pretty sure it's the same in any other university, takes them a whole semester to teach you what you can learn by yourself in 2 weeks... so at the end it comes down to how much personal effort you're willing to put in... uni is just a piece of paper costing you $25,000 - $50,000 which is some sort of plausible proof that you are not a complete tard (to some extent xD)... Information gained is minimal, rest is up to you buddy... good luck ^^