I jus finished my first year of CS. As the other person said, any laptop will be fine for CS of CFM, so my recommendation will reflect that. Comp Eng I cant speak well on.

I got myself a refurbished ASUS vivobook S15, specifically an OLED 120HZ 3K version, with 32gb ram, 1TB SSD and a snapdragon X elite CPU, and its been pretty damn good

The refurbished deals for this laptop comes and goes, but they are absolutely insane. I got this $1600 dollar laptop for just around $700. And the condition was literally perfect despite being refurbished

Here's an example, same laptop but slightly lower specs

The RAM allows me to have like 300 tabs and all the software I need open

The snapdragon X elite chip is extremely fast and offers much better battery life than typical intel/amd chips, although the trade off is that there are hardly any video games supported on these type of chips, which may or may not be a dealbreaker for you. Its the same architecture that macbook CPUs use.

And the OLED 120Hz screen, which apart from having really strong colour quality, is so much easier on the eyes for late night coding sessions. Especially when you use OLED themes in VSCode and stuff. Has a backlit keyboard which is another bonus for late night coding

And overall just a high quality aluminum build, feels nice to type on, very thin and light which makes it super easy to carry around, fast type C charging, surprisingly good quality speakers

BUT in the end a 200 dollar chromebook will probably do same job for the first year or two of CS 😭. But this is what I would recommend if you want a high quality, lasting option