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Can someone explain to me the difference between these two degree programs? Both are offered at the community college. What I primarily want to learn is programming.
It is very hard to say anything without seeing a course description, preferably a syllabus. Few course titles at colleges are very descriptive of content, no matter what field. This is especially true for rapidly evolving fields like these.
You should contact the CC with your question. You should also learn the difference between programming and coding. They are distinct, albeit overlapping, activities.
Programming is, in general, the skill of breaking down a problem in a fashion that can be handled by a computer, Usually as a series of steps. Coding is taking the steps and converting them into code in any of a wide range of programming languages Often the two overlap.
Thank you for the links. Interesting, and not surprising, to see how the college divides things up. The CS track would be much more of a programming/coding track. CIS is focused on the management of computer systems and their interfaces with the world - users, the net, security etc. It is not about programming.
The CS tract seems to be more math oriented. I don't want to spend the rest of my days writing code (assuming I can even do that -- html is NOT PROGRAMMING, as I've been told more than once). But I want to know everything.
Yes, HTML is coding. But many folks use tools to generate the code. Learning a programming language, like C++, is a bit like learning a language - both have vocabulary (the words and what they describe) and a syntax (how the words fit together, punctuation and such).
Introductory courses a good at laying out the landscape.
I got into trouble once in a university class for saying that most courses are introductory. The woman who complained was getting teaching credits and not the professional student type, though I resent that characterization. But it really is true.
I'm currently studying educational technology in a doctoral program, but there is only one programming course and it really isn't programming but just how to use prepackaged programs which do all the work for you. However, there are a few programmers in the class and I both respect them and am made aware of how much more they know than I do.
It may or may not be obvious, but I'm thinking of shucking this doctoral program and starting all over again.
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The CS tract seems to be more math oriented. I don't want to spend the rest of my days writing code (assuming I can even do that -- html is NOT PROGRAMMING, as I've been told more than once). But I want to know everything.
You can't know everything! the amount of information is increasing too quickly. To even make an an attempt to 'know everything' will cause you to have no life outside your pursuit.
Can someone explain to me the difference between these two degree programs? Both are offered at the community college. What I primarily want to learn is programming.
In general - Computer Science is oriented more towards programming/software development. Computer Information Systems is more about the management of applications/application systems - which typically falls more under Networking, system administration, etc.
There's obviously overlap between the two disciplines and are definitely not mutually exclusive.
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