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photochemsyntoday at 3:57 AM3 repliesview on HN

If you’re going to get a CS degree, do it in a master’s degree program. Get your undergraduate degree in anything else that involves at least some mathematics, I’d recommend physics, chemistry, molecular biology, planetary sciences - probability, calculus, linear algebra. Engineering is somewhat more on the vocational side, but that works too.

Why? You don’t narrow your scope at the beginning!


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wasabi991011today at 5:16 AM

In what way are those undergraduate degrees any less narrowing of scope than a CS undergraduate degree?

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LtWorftoday at 7:07 AM

Isn't it normal to study mathematics in a computer science bachelor program in USA?

That country never ceases to astonish me lol.

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n64controllertoday at 5:52 AM

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