Hi everyone, I’m a freshmen and currently doing AAS degree at Mesa community college. I’m planning ahead and thinking about transferring to ASU to get my Bachelor’s degree.
My question is, which one is a better option? SE or IT? I heard that SE is similar to CS and both are pretty hard, is that true?
As for my background, I think I will study online, and I have no experience with programming (I’m playing around a little with Microsoft Visual Studio, but I won’t admit myself experienced with programming)
From the classes I’m seeing listed, I’d say the SE program is a more practical, less theoretical, slightly easier version of a typical CS program. It reflects the work most programmers actually do in the real world. The IT program looks to be geared toward database management and development. (The term IT isn’t exclusively used for the group managing computers and software. In a lot of places I’ve worked, IT refers to the database group.)
They both look like good programs, and either should provide you lots of opportunities on the job market. It’s hard to tell you which one is “better.” Software engineers inevitably end up doing some database work, and database administrators and developers often find themselves writing software. I’m a software engineer and find database development monotonous as hell, but I know other software engineers who love doing database programming. There are database people who only want to do database work, while other database people are always clamoring to get involved with software engineering.