<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am a Senior studying Computer Science. I just switched to this major Junior year (and had no prior programming experience), but so far so good. Because of my late switch I am taking an extra semester and am considering adding a mathematics minor because I see this combination a lot.</p>
<p>My question is, how much weight does a mathematics minor have in the CS work force? How much influence do you think it has when employers see this on a resume, and finally, does it even help when programming?</p>
<p>My alternative is to sit VERY easy at 8 credits (3 programming classes + 20 hour job) which would still be time consuming, but I can always cut a programming class and take a math class instead.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>In most schools, it takes 2-3 extra classes. Also CS curriculum may have technical electives just take the math courses and you will take the same number of classes as you would have with cs only</p>
<p>Thanks. Yes I think it is only 3 more classes to get the certificate.</p>
<p>Anybody else have any thoughts?</p>
<p>Might as well wont hurt. Computer graphics and cryptography are heavy on math. </p>
<p>You can always add a math course or 2 to round out your CS background…like graph theory.</p>
<p>I am interested in computer graphics, I have heard linear algebra is an important class for that (I have taken the intro computer graphics class and there was some of it). Perhaps I will take linear algebra.</p>
<p>Any other math classes you can think of that would help?</p>
<p>Thanks much</p>
<p>The “usual suspects” as far as math courses that apply to CS are:</p>
<p>Numerical Analysis (many times, this course is part of both departments"
Numerical Linear Algebra
Cryptology/Error-Correcting Codes
Mathematical Programming/Linear Programming/Optimization
Combinatorics
Graph Theory
Parallel Computing/Parallel Algorithms</p>