<p>Sorry for the double post of the same topic. I didn't realize I was in the wrong category.</p>
<p>Well, I finally made it through high school with only a week left in school before graduation.</p>
<p>I thought I had my majors planned out in the beginning. Originally i wanted to double major Computer Science and Business, but as my senior year came to a close my Networking/IT teacher recommended that I research C.I.S. because of how good I am when it comes to Cyber Security. ( Placed 1st in District and State in FBLA in Cyber Security Competition ^_^)</p>
<p>I was thinking of a place where I could discuss this with people who had x possibly been in the same situation that i'm in. Then I thought what better place to do this than CC?</p>
<p>This is my own generalization that may not be true depending on the school you go to:
CIS has more to do with the application of algorithms in business environments; CS is more about creating and evaluating algorithms. Cryptography, for example, is a subfield of CS that has to do with security, encryption, etc. This is what you would want to study if you were interested in understanding and coming up with new ways to protect data.</p>
<p>You would probably get a better reply in the engineering forum as a lot of the CS stuff is there…but, what do you like more? It’s a bit like choosing between a science and its engineering application–do you prefer to do research, try to find stuff that has not been discovered before, or do you prefer to use existing knowledge to build things that are useful.</p>