University...

[Minus;]

If going into university for a computer science degree, is it assumed the attendee already has prior experience with programming and the like. Or is it made to start from the beginning?

[Daddy]

You generally start from the beginning. I've had kids in my classes who had no idea what they were doing.

[Socks]

fundamentally this is a moot question and the wrong one to ask. follow your heart, not the money. if you're not already pre-disposed in the electronic arts & sciences, then common sense dictates you're at a disadvantage.

[Minus;]

I am pretty handy with computers and technology and adapt fast, just don't really know how to program. And I already got my roommate assigned and he can program in several languages and works fixing computers....and he won a programming competition and now i feel... under qualified.

[Daddy]

It won't matter. Not everyone is expected to program from the beginning since there are several concentrations and fields of computer science you can go into.

[strongbad]

I am pretty handy with computers and technology and adapt fast, just don't really know how to program. And I already got my roommate assigned and he can program in several languages and works fixing computers....and he won a programming competition and now i feel... under qualified.

Well at least you'll have somebody to go to for help, assuming that he's a nice guy.

[Minus;]

He has the same car as me its weird but cool, and is going for the same program. He seems very nice.

[Martin]

That's something that really needs to be attempted before you start spending money on it. I at one point felt so certain that I wanted to be a programmer until I took a Javascript class (I left school at the end of the day to attend a specialized school) and realized that I hated programming and everything associated with it.

[Minus;]

That's something that really needs to be attempted before you start spending money on it. I at one point felt so certain that I wanted to be a programmer until I took a Javascript class (I left school at the end of the day to attend a specialized school) and realized that I hated programming and everything associated with it.

I don't hate it, I just have never actually learned much of it, I learned a bit of java but thats it