Q. I know this question is old and ugly but I really need some advice from the pros!
I did some college in el Salvador (computer engineer)
Now I want to do computer science in the Hudson comunity college here in New Jersey
But I am not sure if I should do it as a BA or BS??
Math and physics really took a toll on me when I was studying computer engineer, it's not my best area. But I hear more that BS is more specialized then BA.
Can anybody with BA or BS tell me about there experiences on this matter, which is more demanding??
Thank You for your time
I did some college in el Salvador (computer engineer)
Now I want to do computer science in the Hudson comunity college here in New Jersey
But I am not sure if I should do it as a BA or BS??
Math and physics really took a toll on me when I was studying computer engineer, it's not my best area. But I hear more that BS is more specialized then BA.
Can anybody with BA or BS tell me about there experiences on this matter, which is more demanding??
Thank You for your time
A. I am not an expert on how schools come up with these BA and BS titles. I have a BS in Computer Information Systems. A BA in that was not offered at my school - If you got a CS or CIS degree is was a BS degree. I think that some schools have their degree programs as a part of the science department while other schools have it as part of the Business department. This may be why you will see the same degree offered both ways.
Computer Science will have some of the same emphasis on math that you saw in Engineering. If you are not really skilled at math and science and especially logic then I think CS will be no better for you that engineering was. If I were you and liked Information Technology and computers I would go into Computer Infomation Systems (CIS) which is what I did.
To give you the background - There are several main Computer majors and their associated career categories and you need to know these just to get the lay of the land. Now some of the titles colleges use may consist of different course curriculums. As an example one school may have more programming classes in the same major while another school has fewer. Schools may call their general IT program Computer Information Technology, Computer Information Systems or Computer Information Science. To really tell what the major is about you should look at the courses that a particular school offers in that major. If this is info that you already know, apologies. Here are the majors:
Computer Science (CS) - A technical degree which usually has a Programming emphasis - people with this major usually are developing application software, web development, embedded code and robotics. Sometimes depending on the college the degree may cover some more general topics as listed under CIS below. CS is a difficult area major. Many CS students find themselves not enjoying programming or not having the math and logic skills to be good at programming and switch out into CIS.
Computer Information Systems (CIS) This is a general technical degree and is the degree that I have. Holders of these degree work in a variety of technical jobs like these:
Computer Technician, Service Center Coordinator, Help Desk Staff, Storage Administrator, Network Administrator, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Enterprise Administrator, Active Directory Administrator, Exchange and Messaging Administrator, Backup Administrator, Disaster Recovery Specialist, Database Administrator, Computing Security Specialist, Corporate IT Acquisition Specialist and Data Center Administrator, just to name a few.
Computer Engineering - This is a technical engineering and design degree. These degree holders get jobs related to designing and manufacturing computer related hardware.
Management Information Systems (MIS) - This is a business degree that prepares non-technically trained people to manage projects, budgets and people. Traditionally, senior IT technical pros would eventually be promoted into management positions after years of technical work. The good news is they understood technical challenges their people were working with but the bad news was that some were great tech people but poor people managers. The idea with the MIS degree is to provide business training that is slanted towards managing IT work. Business Colleges like to offer this degree because management principles change must less frequently that technical info where there is always a new operating system or new programming language. This means they can have the same classes, same books and same course titles year after year. In a technical major the technology changes very fast. I have had both types of managers and the new trend is definitely towards these non-technical managers. A lot of them are showing up in the large company I work for.
Personally, I enjoy technical work more than management - I can do programming and do a little bit of that with scripting that I do but I would not like doing that every day - all day.
Best Wishes!
Computer Science will have some of the same emphasis on math that you saw in Engineering. If you are not really skilled at math and science and especially logic then I think CS will be no better for you that engineering was. If I were you and liked Information Technology and computers I would go into Computer Infomation Systems (CIS) which is what I did.
To give you the background - There are several main Computer majors and their associated career categories and you need to know these just to get the lay of the land. Now some of the titles colleges use may consist of different course curriculums. As an example one school may have more programming classes in the same major while another school has fewer. Schools may call their general IT program Computer Information Technology, Computer Information Systems or Computer Information Science. To really tell what the major is about you should look at the courses that a particular school offers in that major. If this is info that you already know, apologies. Here are the majors:
Computer Science (CS) - A technical degree which usually has a Programming emphasis - people with this major usually are developing application software, web development, embedded code and robotics. Sometimes depending on the college the degree may cover some more general topics as listed under CIS below. CS is a difficult area major. Many CS students find themselves not enjoying programming or not having the math and logic skills to be good at programming and switch out into CIS.
Computer Information Systems (CIS) This is a general technical degree and is the degree that I have. Holders of these degree work in a variety of technical jobs like these:
Computer Technician, Service Center Coordinator, Help Desk Staff, Storage Administrator, Network Administrator, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, Enterprise Administrator, Active Directory Administrator, Exchange and Messaging Administrator, Backup Administrator, Disaster Recovery Specialist, Database Administrator, Computing Security Specialist, Corporate IT Acquisition Specialist and Data Center Administrator, just to name a few.
Computer Engineering - This is a technical engineering and design degree. These degree holders get jobs related to designing and manufacturing computer related hardware.
Management Information Systems (MIS) - This is a business degree that prepares non-technically trained people to manage projects, budgets and people. Traditionally, senior IT technical pros would eventually be promoted into management positions after years of technical work. The good news is they understood technical challenges their people were working with but the bad news was that some were great tech people but poor people managers. The idea with the MIS degree is to provide business training that is slanted towards managing IT work. Business Colleges like to offer this degree because management principles change must less frequently that technical info where there is always a new operating system or new programming language. This means they can have the same classes, same books and same course titles year after year. In a technical major the technology changes very fast. I have had both types of managers and the new trend is definitely towards these non-technical managers. A lot of them are showing up in the large company I work for.
Personally, I enjoy technical work more than management - I can do programming and do a little bit of that with scripting that I do but I would not like doing that every day - all day.
Best Wishes!
How can we thank Obama for higher unemployment for July?
Q. In another sign of the ongoing jobs recession, fully 41 states saw their unemployment rates climb in July, according to state-level data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As a result, more than three years after the economic recovery officially started under President Obama, 10 states still have jobless rates of 9% or higher. [snip] The states with the highest rates â Nevada, Rhode Island (10.8%), California (10.7%), New Jersey and North Carolina all voted for Obama in 2008.
A. By enabling him to take early retirement from his first job.
What's the definition of insanity? Voting to re-elect a Chicago thug who's proven that he has no clue on how to restore our economy after watching him make things worse for the past 4 years.
If Obama had a clue on how to create jobs, what has he been doing for four years?
Time to clean house and stop the on-the-job training in the White House.
What's the definition of insanity? Voting to re-elect a Chicago thug who's proven that he has no clue on how to restore our economy after watching him make things worse for the past 4 years.
If Obama had a clue on how to create jobs, what has he been doing for four years?
Time to clean house and stop the on-the-job training in the White House.
OSAMA-releases his-WISH LIST for America. EMP attack maybe?
Q. 9 November 2008: On November 5, 2008, the day after the US Presidential Elections....
Osama and the Brigade of Al-Quida made a worthy promise (America will not live in safety).
He wrote extensively about the blackout across the northeast US and Canada some years back and indicates this will happen again.
They claim that they indeed caused the outage and will do it again.
Below are excerpts from the text.
In implementing the orders of the Emir of the mujahedeen Osama bin Laden -Brigades of Abu Hafs al-Masri find it important to strike a second time (facilities supplying) electricity in the eastern U.S., including the most important economic cities of America and Canada as America's ally in the war against Islam (the city of Toronto and New York) and (areas) around them. (In their first strike) they caused the strike to prevent electricity for more than fifty million people.
Further text indicates possible things that these people have on their terror "Wish- List" for the USA and Canada.
(We will) hit the main stronghold of the American economy
(international exchange). For your information, the American economy depends entirely on investor confidence.
The arrest (takeover) of seven major airports, a blow to the airlines.
Disable nine nuclear reactors and this has not happened before is a strong economic, as the reactors, nine are in the states of New York and New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan.
Disruption of transportation: trains, cars and trucks .... etc., causing heavy casualties.
Disruption of the Internet, which depend upon (Internet data transfer) in commercial transactions.
Disruption of global banks based in New York.
Losses (financial due to) to a massive deployment of police and security forces.
The economy that will lose electricity in the United States and Canada will cost the U.S. Treasury at least ten billion U.S. dollars. Deterioration of the U.S. dollar against other currencies.
WHAT IS AN EMP ATTACK? EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW THIS!
I feel the only way he can possibly do all he says Al Quida will do is by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the American homeland...
Few if any people would die right away. But the loss of power would have a cascading effect on all aspects of U.S. society. Communication would be largely impossible. Lack of refrigeration would leave food rotting in warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of transportation as those vehicles still working simply ran out of gas (which is pumped with electricity). The inability to sanitize and distribute water would quickly threaten public health, not to mention the safety of anyone in the path of the inevitable fires, which would rage unchecked. And as we have seen in areas of natural and other disasters, such circumstances often result in a fairly rapid breakdown of social order.
American society has grown so dependent on computer and other electrical systems that we have created our own Achilles' heel of vulnerability, ironically much greater than those of other, less developed nations. When deprived of power, we are in many ways helpless, as the New York City blackout made clear. In that case, power was restored quickly because adjacent areas could provide help. But a large-scale burnout caused by a broad EMP attack would create a much more difficult situation. Not only would there be nobody nearby to help, it could take years to replace destroyed equipment.
Transformers for regional substations, for example, are massive pieces of equipment that are no longer manufactured in the United States and typically take more than a year to build. In the words of another witness at the hearing, "The longer the basic outage, the more problematic and uncertain the recovery of any [infrastructure system] will be. It is possible -- indeed, seemingly likely -- for sufficiently severe functional outages to become mutually reinforcing, until a point at which the degradation . . . could have irreversible effects on the country's ability to support any large fraction of its present human population." Those who survived, he said, would find themselves transported back to the United States of the 1880s.
This threat may sound straight out of Hollywood, but it is very real. CIA Director Porter Goss recently testified before Congress about nuclear material missing from storage sites in Russia that may have found its way into terrorist hands, and FBI Director Robert Mueller has confirmed new intelligence that suggests al Qaeda is trying to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. Iran has surprised intelligence analysts by describing the mid-flight detonations of missiles fired from ships on the Caspian Sea as "successful" tests. North Korea exports missile technology around the world; Scuds can easily be purchased on the open market for about $100,000 apiece.
A terrorist organization might have trouble putting a nuclear warhead "on target" with a Scud, but it would be much easier to simply launch and detonate in
Osama and the Brigade of Al-Quida made a worthy promise (America will not live in safety).
He wrote extensively about the blackout across the northeast US and Canada some years back and indicates this will happen again.
They claim that they indeed caused the outage and will do it again.
Below are excerpts from the text.
In implementing the orders of the Emir of the mujahedeen Osama bin Laden -Brigades of Abu Hafs al-Masri find it important to strike a second time (facilities supplying) electricity in the eastern U.S., including the most important economic cities of America and Canada as America's ally in the war against Islam (the city of Toronto and New York) and (areas) around them. (In their first strike) they caused the strike to prevent electricity for more than fifty million people.
Further text indicates possible things that these people have on their terror "Wish- List" for the USA and Canada.
(We will) hit the main stronghold of the American economy
(international exchange). For your information, the American economy depends entirely on investor confidence.
The arrest (takeover) of seven major airports, a blow to the airlines.
Disable nine nuclear reactors and this has not happened before is a strong economic, as the reactors, nine are in the states of New York and New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan.
Disruption of transportation: trains, cars and trucks .... etc., causing heavy casualties.
Disruption of the Internet, which depend upon (Internet data transfer) in commercial transactions.
Disruption of global banks based in New York.
Losses (financial due to) to a massive deployment of police and security forces.
The economy that will lose electricity in the United States and Canada will cost the U.S. Treasury at least ten billion U.S. dollars. Deterioration of the U.S. dollar against other currencies.
WHAT IS AN EMP ATTACK? EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW THIS!
I feel the only way he can possibly do all he says Al Quida will do is by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the American homeland...
Few if any people would die right away. But the loss of power would have a cascading effect on all aspects of U.S. society. Communication would be largely impossible. Lack of refrigeration would leave food rotting in warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of transportation as those vehicles still working simply ran out of gas (which is pumped with electricity). The inability to sanitize and distribute water would quickly threaten public health, not to mention the safety of anyone in the path of the inevitable fires, which would rage unchecked. And as we have seen in areas of natural and other disasters, such circumstances often result in a fairly rapid breakdown of social order.
American society has grown so dependent on computer and other electrical systems that we have created our own Achilles' heel of vulnerability, ironically much greater than those of other, less developed nations. When deprived of power, we are in many ways helpless, as the New York City blackout made clear. In that case, power was restored quickly because adjacent areas could provide help. But a large-scale burnout caused by a broad EMP attack would create a much more difficult situation. Not only would there be nobody nearby to help, it could take years to replace destroyed equipment.
Transformers for regional substations, for example, are massive pieces of equipment that are no longer manufactured in the United States and typically take more than a year to build. In the words of another witness at the hearing, "The longer the basic outage, the more problematic and uncertain the recovery of any [infrastructure system] will be. It is possible -- indeed, seemingly likely -- for sufficiently severe functional outages to become mutually reinforcing, until a point at which the degradation . . . could have irreversible effects on the country's ability to support any large fraction of its present human population." Those who survived, he said, would find themselves transported back to the United States of the 1880s.
This threat may sound straight out of Hollywood, but it is very real. CIA Director Porter Goss recently testified before Congress about nuclear material missing from storage sites in Russia that may have found its way into terrorist hands, and FBI Director Robert Mueller has confirmed new intelligence that suggests al Qaeda is trying to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. Iran has surprised intelligence analysts by describing the mid-flight detonations of missiles fired from ships on the Caspian Sea as "successful" tests. North Korea exports missile technology around the world; Scuds can easily be purchased on the open market for about $100,000 apiece.
A terrorist organization might have trouble putting a nuclear warhead "on target" with a Scud, but it would be much easier to simply launch and detonate in
A. I googled it and found the EMP attack here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57774-2005Apr15.html
And Al-Quida/Osama's wish list here:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/20081109RT
DO YOURSELVES A FAVOR AND READ IT- or what she's written!
It's VERY REAL and coming to your doorstep soon !
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57774-2005Apr15.html
And Al-Quida/Osama's wish list here:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/20081109RT
DO YOURSELVES A FAVOR AND READ IT- or what she's written!
It's VERY REAL and coming to your doorstep soon !
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