-: Certainly, a degree in computer science is helpful.
Knowing the basis of computer science, knowing techniques,
knowing a couple programming languages,
understanding data structures and algorithms,
is really the basis of what you need.
'Cause you're gonna find when you get to the workplace
that no amount of school or college
really prepares that well for
what it's truly like in the workplace.
You know, you can be this all-star coder guy,
and you go out there and you're like, alright,
I'm ready to go, and then day one you get hit with stuff
that's just out in left field that you had no idea.
So if you have that basis of just being able
to write good code and understanding that,
and the other thing is being able to just be open-minded,
and being able to accept what's goin' on,
then it's going to be the best tools available for you.
Software is one of the fields
where there's a lot of internships.
So there's a lot out there to find.
And it's nice, too, because typically they're very,
usually pretty decent-paying internships.
So, you're not working somewhere for free, you know,
and scrounging around.
And a lotta places even will house their students,
and so there's a lotta benefits to be in internship.
And you get true real world experience, typically,
and you understand what it's like to be on the job.
So, that's something that computer science
definitely has going for it.