Computer science at Uni

MIT have a great set of youtube videos.

Highly recommend going through this lot:

If that is the kind of thing that interests you and you understand then CS is for you. Otherwise look at more vocational courses.

Programming in itself can be very interesting and exciting, you are effectively problem solving. I spent today writing an A* search algorithm that can take into account special path restrictions and use a variant of a minimax pruning technique to allow non-admissible heuristics with a guaranteed upper-bound approximation to the optimum. Last week I was coding an R-Tree spatial indexing algorithm for K-nearest neighbors search in sparse-geometric data sets.

Software engineering on the other-hand, is dull as dish water really. I want to solve the problem in an efficient manner, I don't really care about making production quality code.
 
Shicky said:
Do one of the comp science modules on edX, coursera or udacity. It is an absolute must to test the waters, given the cost of uni these days I would definitely work out exactly how much you will have to pay and if it'll be worthwhile
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Seriously do this... don't just watch the lectures, register for a course, do the assignments and get the certificate... if you do this it will only help your further study, if you can't do this or find out that you don't enjoy it then don't waste your time, 4 years of lost income and thousands more in tuition fees/living expenses.

this one started recently (probably still time to catch up)

https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.00x/2013_Spring/about

this one can be started at any time

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs101
 
Thanks to the guys who have posted on here regarding the online courses. I have applied and been offered places for university this year to study Comp Science but I am going to do one of these online courses before I commit to taking a place so I know if its 100% what I want to do.

I hadn't even thought something like this was available.

Is there any difference between the edx or udacity courses?

Thanks
 
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