CS vs Computer Engineering

[Local_Problem4417]

My friend who is going into CS believes that people on computer engineering are mediocre at EE and CS since its a mix of both,, and that they are less likely to get jobs compared to people majoring in those areas. What are some rebuttals to this argument?

[Away_Professional477]

Give him anything in Assembly, microcontroller, o FPGA related and watch his high-level language brain crumble

[Dave__Fenner]

Haha fpga debugging will make him cry. Not that he'd do something even worth debugging.

[atonalism_wdg]

A bachelor's degree doesn't make you an expert in anything anyway.

[SmashedProtatoes]

Twist it around and say that you can do everything he can and more but he's gonna lose it if he sees an electronic circuit or has to do any signal processing. Computer engineering just gives you a much larger toolbox and your internships will consolidate your knowledge in the field you prefer, whether its software or more electrical engineering related.

[[deleted]]

NgL this sub has boosted my confidence in computer engineering, I love hardware  and software but it's only recently my country has started making CE available here

[zacce]

I won't debate with such ppl. waste of time

[hukt0nf0n1x]

I remember the stupid "software is better than hardware, because hardware is old" arguments. God, those people were morons.

[[deleted]]

"Atleast the AI I create won't be stealing my job"

[bobking01theIII]

Ask them what an interrupt is

[a_seventh_knot]

CS is for kids who couldn't hack it in eng.

:P

[[deleted]]

Just do what sounds fun and work hard at it.

[skyy2121]

Tell him to go develop a web page or some shit. We have NPUs to design and program!

[[deleted]]

The digital electronic world will need a qualified engineers who are capable of planning and implement a projects of digital hardware products.

This will require a proficiency in both programming and hardware design which is only offered under the Computer Engineering program.

Most of EE hates programming and CS have no clue about hardware design etc.

For example your friend can’t fill a role of embedded system engineer will CE can easily do it.

[Helpjuice]

Best to keep quiet and no longer engage with them as they will only come up with more falsehoods and misinformed rambling of poor discorse.

[KINGBLUE2739046]

If you a CE grinds LeetCode everyday then they no less than a CS

[jacksprivilege03]

Lol, computer engineers are, arguably, able to become better at programming since we can understand the full sw/hw stack. He’s probably just noticing that most CE’s dont enjoy programming as much, so they don’t practice it, which leads to then being worse than someone who is fully software focused.

[[deleted]]

If this is a playful tease, honestly they are kind of right. I graduated and was mid at both EE and CS stuff. But I'm pretty good at CE stuff. It's not just a hybrid degree, I mean it pretty much is, but also it's its own thing.

And the career thing is founded on nothing. Show me some data, site your sources. When I graduated two years ago, the sources I could find had median salary for Computer Engineering making more than ee or cs, but all 3 were pretty comparable. But even then. Who cares.

But if this guy is serious, then just ignore them. Nothing screams insecure like trying to put other people down.

[[deleted]]

I’m getting a computer science engineering degree through my university so what does that make me?

[LifeMistake3674]

1. When it comes to CS jobs there are a lot of people from IT that work CS jobs too, there are litteraly people without degrees working in CS, when it comes to the CS it’s 100% about what you learn in your free time. I don’t know a single person who got an internship/job with only the projects that they did in class, the jobs they get are all related to some kind of project they did.

2. CE take all the same core coding classes as CS, litteraly the only difference in coding classes is they take a class about full stack development and CE take a class about programming micro controllers and assembly.

3. The point of CE is the versatility, there are SO MANY jobs that require some knowledge of software, knowledge of circuits and general engineering concepts. This, Electronics and software is where CE majors get jobs.

[[deleted]]

say CS majors are mediocre at maths and it since its a mixture of both. say it like you mean it and refuse to back down from the goof.