What should I do with my Computer Science degree?

I intend to specialize in Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science in my MS in CS degree what all courses should I take?

• 1) I intend to specialize in Algorithms and Theoretical computer science in my Masters degree and I am pretty confused about the courses I must take to make my degree a success? 2) What all projects can be done in the subject to learn more and appear to be better suited to industry? 3) What all areas should I concentrate more on from the field of algorithms? 4) How does the subject of Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science fair against Machine Learning which is in good demand in the industry? 4) Should I write a Master's Thesis or do an industry level project? 5) Suggest some research areas in the field of Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science as well, which involve some good amount of research?

• Answer:

  1) I intend to specialize in Algorithms and Theoretical computer science in my Masters degree and I am pretty confused about the courses I must take to make my degree a success? Take some courses which look interesting to you the first semester.  Once you get there speak to older graduate students regarding what courses you should take.  The quality of a particular course/instructor and the courses offered vary from university to university.  They can answer this better than we can. 2) What all projects can be done in the subject to learn more and appear to be better suited to industry? Theoretical computer science is not very useful in industry.  If your goal is a job then you are better off taking more practical courses.  In general, graduate courses tend to focus more on theory than applications.  You should complement your studies with either internships, app development, or helping out with developing open-source programming libraries. 3) What all areas should I concentrate more on from the field of algorithms? This entirely depends on which subfield you want to go into after earning your degree. 4) How does the subject of Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science fair against Machine Learning which is in good demand in the industry? Theoretical CS is not very useful in industry and doesn't have many practical applications.  Machine learning is in very high demand right now. 4) Should I write a Master's Thesis or do an industry level project? Thesis would be more useful if you want to earn a PhD.  Industry project is more useful for a job in industry. 5) Suggest some research areas in the field of Algorithms and Theoretical Computer Science as well, which involve some good amount of research? There is no shortage of research to be done in any field of research.  Look up the work your professors do and learn about what interests you.