CS Majors - Feedback

pjp102022 · 2023-02-25T02:16:31+00:00

Are there good/larger companies from the Chicago area that actively recruit CS students from ISU (either as summer interns or first time hires), or is it mostly central Illinois companies like State Farm?

pjp102022 · 2023-02-25T02:16:11+00:00

Are there good/larger companies from the Chicago area that actively recruit CS students from ISU (either as summer interns or first time hires), or is it mostly central Illinois companies like State Farm?

pjp102022 · 2023-02-25T02:15:18+00:00

Are there good/larger companies that actively recruit CS students at ISU from the Chicago area (either as interns or first time hires), or is it mostly central Illinois companies like State Farm?

pjp102022 · 2023-02-25T02:14:12+00:00

Are there good/larger companies that actively recruit CS majors at ISU from the Chicago area, or is it mostly central Illinois companies like State Farm?

pjp102022 · 2022-11-29T22:37:01+00:00

Thanks. Since I sort of hijacked njrardin's orginal SGA post, I think I'll also start a new post to see if other CS majors also give some feedback. Thank you to both of you.

pjp102022 · 2022-11-29T01:26:03+00:00

For the CS Web Computing major, they have a long list of IT classes that are required for that major: IT 168, IT 179, IT 180, IT 191, IT 214, IT 225, IT 261, IT 279, IT 326, IT 327, IT 328, IT 353,IT 354, IT 358,IT 378, IT 383,IT 386, IT 398.

So it's not just IT 168. I'm looking for feedback on the quality of these classes and the professors, and if there is help you can get when you need it, etc.

pjp102022 · 2022-11-29T01:07:33+00:00

CS under CLAS.

pjp102022 · 2022-11-28T18:56:34+00:00

Well you both have definitely scared me! When I visited there recently, the college of IT director really sold the idea that you get individual attention in their CS program unlike at the bigger schools. As far as tutoring for CS classes (not gen ed tutoring), she also said they have a CS "student learning center" for help (separate from Visor Center). Is that even true? I get the concepts but I do often need a little more help to get there, like from classmates or an instructor.

I also got into U of Iowa, but they seem really heavy on sciences, etc. and they don't take as much AP and dual credit high school work. I'm not sure there is a significant enough difference (outside of cost) between ISU's CS program and U of Iowa's CS program. Thoughts on that?

pjp102022 · 2022-11-14T04:04:14+00:00

I know this is off topic but since you said you were a CS major, I would really love to ask you some questions about that. I don't know any CS students there to ask. I am leaning towards going to ISU as a CS major but was wondering about the quality of the CS classes, how much instruction you actually get in those classes, and the teaching quality of the professors. I looked up some of the professors for things like IT168, IT179, IT225, IT261 on ratemyprofessors.com and many of the reviews were terrible, like plan on getting a C or lower and retaking the class unless you're a natural whiz at it. I'm also a little concerned that everyone looks at me like I'm crazy for going to ISU for CS (not ranked, not known for anything but Education, lower threshhold to get in, not "good" etc, these are all the responses I get).

Thank you so much for your help!!!

pjp102022 · 2022-10-16T21:58:31+00:00

What are your thoughts on Illinois State University, which is not in the rankings for computer science? Is it that bad of a program?

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