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What do I do to become a computer engineer?

What do i need to become a computer programmer/engineer?

  • I wanted to become a computer science major at the college i applied to but then i didn't get in so i want to go to a CC near to home for 2 years and then transfer my credits. What classes should i take and which areas should i focus on?

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    Your best bet is to go to the university that you are transferring to and ask them this question. However, I can give you a general idea because I used to be a computer tech and worked with IT faculty at a local CC for 10 years: -Take all your core computer programming classes, ie intro to programming, C, C++, and Java. -Take every networking class you possibly can and get a Comptia certification in this, called Networking +. This may not be required, but you will benefit in life greatly from taking this. -Take Linux, Linux networking, and Linux programming. This may not be required, but you will benefit in life greatly from taking this. You can go on to teach it and even become a Linux Network Admin. -Take hardware classes and get your Comptia A+ certification.

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You need to contact your target university and find out what sort of courses a computer science major needs to take at that school, and then do as many of those same courses as you can at the CC. The odds are pretty good that you will need to take an English class and at least one calculus class and one calc-based physics class. I'd be shocked if you weren't required to take linear algebra and discrete math as well. Take those at the CC if you can. And be very careful about technical classes at the CC like computer programming ones. They may not transfer over to the university, as CCs tend to teach IT rather than computer science, and many of the material they teach is *not* what a computer science major at a 4-year school learns. But it wouldn't hurt to take at least one introductory type of class in C or C++ or Python or Fortran or some other language deemed acceptable by your target university. And if you want to study computer *engineering* rather than computer science, you definitely need to take as much math and physics as possible at the CC. Take differential equations, linear algebra, discrete math, vector analysis, whatever they offer.

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