I don’t get in CS directly. How about this major? What’s the difference between the acms major and the cs/ce major? Do they share the same professor, same resources, or, they are not related at all? How is acms students’ outcome? Thank your guys so much !
I don’t know the details of differences between them, but they may be very different. We have several new graduates from UW’s ACMS in my team (a traditional BigTelcom, not a very exciting place. Jobs are even not stable.) and it looks to me they don’t have much the knowledge and skills for a person who takes software development as a job. I don’t mean they are not good, just they have to learn a lot on the job (although one has to always learn a lot in the IT industry, he/she should already have some very good background if he/she is from CS). They could have better jobs if …
Thank you very much. Very useful information.