<p>Hadsed, there is no chance that I am going to drop out of college and stick with my A.A. I do have my A.A., but I personally believe it is utterly worthless unless I have a bachelors degree. The A.A. is just there to look nice on paper by having 2 degrees. The bachelors degree is the only one that’s truly important in my eyes. I WILL graduate with a bachelors degree. The problem is…in what?</p>
<p>I just don’t know if I will be able to truly get into programming. I love working with computers, but I don’t know if I want to be a programmer. </p>
<p>I also never envisioned myself as a business man either Tom. I wish the MIS wasn’t part of the College of Business. The IS isn’t really much different from the CS program from the course listing I printed out. It has a few business classes, no Calc 3, and a couple different IT courses. It looks pretty much the same.</p>
<p>The MIS degree interests me, but I am worried about job prospects with it. Will I be able to successfully find a job post graduation with it? I have done some research on the MIS degree and a few people have mentioned having difficulty finding a job with this degree. A lot also say they don’t really work much with computers. I would definitely prefer to work in the I.T. field.</p>
<p>Would the best thing be to stick it out next semester and try out my Programming Concepts class? If I hate it, should I definitely change my major out of Computer Science? I am going to visit those links tomorrow about programming and try to learn it to see if I will enjoy it. </p>
<p>My main dilemma is which route shall I go if I decided to not major in CS. Really frustrating and stressful.</p>
<p>I am afraid you might lose your interest if you happen to have an easy instructor and later courses appear to be really difficult. Or if you happen to have a difficult instructor and you struggle it and you hate it (but later courses may be attracting…)</p>
<p>You should start learning the programming on your own, right now. At least pick up a few things before going into class next semester.</p>
<p>Here is the thing. There are many areas which you can go into. If you like doing database things, go learn the language. If you like web development, dive into it.
These things are usually done outside of the classroom.</p>
<p>Jwxie brings up a good point; there are different types of ‘programming’. You might find that you like different types and working with different types of systems or levels since they all sort of require a different kind of approach.</p>
<p>I agree, you really should get into it now. That’s really the only way you can figure it out. Those insane 14 year old linux guru’s? They didn’t get there by magic, they found the fun in hacking the hell out of machines and that’s what turned them into what they are. All they do is just ‘play’ with it, and if you do that you’ll find out soon enough if you enjoy making the machine do this or that or you might find that you think it’s utterly pointless and boring.</p>
<p>If next semester I do not enjoy programming should I get out of Computer Science? I definitely want to work in the IT field, but I don’t know what the next best IT related degree would be.</p>
<p>Your school offers a BS in IT at another campus and looking over the prereqs it looks less intense than the CS combined with engineering major you are currently doing. Not all school mix CS with engineering and that is why it may seem overly intense. </p>
<p>Talk to the career guidance dept at your school about jobs in IT. See if there is someplace they could send you so you could shadow someone working in this field.</p>
<p>Start with C++. Because once you learn C++ remaining languages you can learn on your own.
[C++</a> Basics](<a href=“http://www.cppbasics.com%5DC++”>http://www.cppbasics.com) is a good resource.</p>