What do you learn in Computer Science courses?

What courses does a American student who is in Computer Science field to get a master degree learn?

• Answer:

  First off, let me begin by saying that if you believe a sound knowledge of CS fundamentals like algorithms, data structures is not "useful in industry", you're mistaken. I'm not sure how you become a good game programmer without a solid foundation in computer science which will be required if you ever write your own or work on modern game engines and libraries like OpenGL and DirectX. Even programmers who don't have CS degrees spend a lot of time and effort learning the fundamentals of the subject. To answer your question, no. Most Masters programs do not teach web development (not sure about game programming). They.offer fundamental classes followed by classes in specialization tracks like AI, Networking among others. Most programs would include the following fundamental classes Algorithms and Data Structures Theory of Computation Programming Languages Operating System Internals More specialized classes include Statistical Machine Learning (AI) Distributed Systems Data Mining Computer Vision\Image Processing Advanced Networks