What Is Your Major?

Ayman

As we all know there is already a thread about what will be your major be if you could change it, but what is your current major in the first place? :P My current major is: Management Information Systems, after I graduate I am planning to major in either Computer Science or Software Engineering if it will be available in Lebanon soon :P so what is your major? Do you like it? What are your plans for it? :cool:

Marty

I have 2 majors, Chemistry and French. And I love them! I want to be an environmental chemist.

samer

I'm an Electrical and Computer Engineering student, although Computer Science appeals me more.

Marty wroteI have 2 majors, Chemistry and French. And I love them! I want to be an environmental chemist.

I'm taking a Chemistry Lab course this summer and I kind of dislike it :P

Ayman

I have 2 majors, Chemistry and French. And I love them! I want to be an environmental chemist.

Those are the most subjects that i dislike lol, i remember when i used to get 4/20 on my french grammar exam at school lol (since french was for me just a second language :P). I used to dislike chemistry too but my grades were more realistic in it :P , but now no more chemistry nor french :D :D

battikh

AymanFarhat wrote
I have 2 majors, Chemistry and French. And I love them! I want to be an environmental chemist.
Those are the most subjects that i dislike lol, i remember when i used to get 4/20 on my french grammar exam at school lol (since french was for me just a second language :P)

man, that's great, you should be proud. in dictee, the best grade i EVER had was a 1/20, and it was only because the teacher refuses to put zeros... and... i grew up in france, so french was my mother tongue...

as for my major, masters in network security

kareem-makk

School :P ...Grade 9 :P

Ayman

School tongue ...Grade 9 tongue

Wow, it is nice to have young enthusiasts around here, what are you planning to major in for the future then? Good luck in your brevet btw, oh man you made remember now all the goods days of the brevet when I used to be In school :)

xterm

If you want to put a label on it, yes i did CS in college. Although i should add that not one college in lebanon teaches CS properly.

norman

Well I am now promoted to sec3 and going to study in univesity aviation engineering and pilot studies

Ayman

If you want to put a label on it, yes i did CS in college. Although i should add that not one college in lebanon teaches CS properly.

Agree. They end up teaching you stuff you don't need, that's what many people told me and that's why i chose to keep it for a later time after I graduate with a degree in M.I.S., by the time I am studying for my first degree I would be learning advanced stuff in programming on my own where I learn whatever I like and hopefully in the next 3 coming years the CS program becomes better in Lebanon or maybe we would have by then Software Engineering majors at universities...hopefully... :P

Well I am now promoted to sec3 and going to study in univesity aviation engineering and pilot studies

Nice, you will be doing general science right? Good luck then :)

Xsever

Electrical/Computer Engineering in Canada.

xterm

AymanFarhat wroteAgree. They end up teaching you stuff you don't need, that's what many people told me and that's why i chose to keep it for a later time after I graduate with a degree in M.I.S., by the time I am studying for my first degree I would be learning advanced stuff in programming on my own where I learn whatever I like and hopefully in the next 3 coming years the CS program becomes better in Lebanon or maybe we would have by then Software Engineering majors at universities...hopefully... :P

The problem is not "what" they teach, its "how" they teach it. As soon as you step in to a CS major you'll be exposed to the first programming course based on a certain language and they feed your brain as to how things are done "using" this language, where in fact the emphasis should be more on logical and functional computation whether pseudo or using a functional language.

Jumping directly to imperative and object oriented programming is terrible especially in this technological age. OO was fine 9 years ago and its still fine now with certain design patterns applied to the graphical world of programming yet its overly abused and the corporate giants and open source communities are starting to realize that. over the last three years the corporate giants have all been researching the functional way of dealing with computation. Its very noticeable especially when you see people busting their a$$ trying to apply functional approaches through imperative programming using Nemerle and Scala.

This is a huge topic i honestly can't tackle it here sorry. I do have a link in the Coffee Break post i believe which should give you an idea of what i'm talking about.