The misunderstanding of Computer Science Major

There are some people who are misunderstanding what computer science is. This post will list some misunderstanding of computer science.

 

1. Computer Science help people to fix computer well

 Some people who are majoring computer science, experienced that their friends are asking for help to fix their computers because he/she is majoring computer science. Computer science is not dealing with fixing computer. There is another major for fixing computer problems. So, don't ask a friend who are majoring computer science to fix your computer.

 

2. Computer Science major has every knowledge of computer

  Now, Computer science is categorized with many other major field of study, so there is a limit that computer science major has.

 

3. Computer Science major is perfect in mathematics

  The mathematics that computer science major learns and high school mathematics is totally different. Computer science major learn mathematic that is even more specific part of mathematics that helps to connect systems and those are called algorism. But, not all the systems are related with algorism, such as discrete mathematics. Still, it is important to learn mathematics for computer science majors because they are related.

4. Computer science major can make games

 This misunderstanding is coming from, people thinking computer science is dealing with programming, so computer science majors should be professional on this. But, universities don’t really teach detail about it. People need to self-study about practical programming.

 

5. Computer science major can hack

 Of course computer science majors are better at hacking than other people, but they are very few. What most of people are thinking about hacking is very easy to do. They just need to get a tools and corrupt host computer, but for real hacking, even computer science majors can’t do it because it is very complicated