Hello Logan, Wendell, Qain or any other reader of this post. I am in my final year of high school in Sydney, Australia, and I am deciding on which degree I should do next year. I am unsure whether I want to work in programming or designing hardware or some other career. The computer based degrees that are offered at the universities here (im mostly looking at University of NSW and University of Sydney) are computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, mechatronic engineering and software engineering. I want to keep my career path options open so I was thinking either computer engineering which seems to be a good mix of hardware and software, or do a combined degree (double major) in computer science and electrical engineering. Does anyone one have any recommendations or past experiences I could use to make my decision. Thanks.
I'm with @Eden. Any degree is worth having. I did my Computer Science degree in the early 90's, which technology wise was in the stone age, compared to now. It still gets me in the door in regards to programming/admin jobs, but I've worked with people who have degrees in history and a number of other subjects or no degree at all! At the end of the day, it's just a bit of paper which shows commitment.
I was creepin' around and read your post earlier before we started streaming. Mentioned it to him and he gave a brief answer. (TL;DW: "Try and get some experience before declaring a major").
I have found a computer engineering degree which places you in 2, 6 month internships (usually paid) as a part the course. They are with blue chip companies such as intel, ISPs and najor banks.
Also I have about 4 months holidays between high school finishing and university starting so I will try get some work experience in that time which could lead to a part time job while I study. I dont think I want to take a year off.