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- I came thinking
that I was going to
enter computer science,
I wasn't 100% sure,
but then after taking my
first programming class,
I just really fell in love with it.
- One thing that I love about computing
is you can take your
passion, whatever it is,
and use computing, merge
computing with that passion
so if you love biology,
you can get training in bioinformatics,
if you love chemistry,
you can get training in chem-informatics.
Computing can pretty much
be applied to anything
in our world today
and so whatever your passions
are, merge it with computing
and you can get a great job.
- They had Discover
Mines I think the summer
before I actually came
and enrolled in Mines
and I think Keith Hellman was heading up
the computer science one
and just his enthusiasm
really got me interested
and next thing you know I'm
a computer science major.
- I was attracted to computer science
because I use computers every single day
and being able to control
them and tell them what to do
versus just using them was, it
was a really cool experience.
- Computer scientists are trying
to solve society's problems
whether they are health
problems or criminal problems
or engineering problems,
computer scientists are
needed at the table.
- I would say computer science
isn't just about programming
and sitting in front of a computer
but more about solving problems
especially in ways that may
not seem intuitive at first
but end up being more efficient
and getting you a better answer.
- Software engineering
is about so much more
than just writing code.
I think that's kind of the
core skillset that you learn
and it's obviously essential
to being successful
but there's so much of a human factor
and communications around
any successful project
and delivery.
- What is the key component that helps?
There's computational sciences,
so you can't see things,
you have to predict something
so you have not constructed anything
so what you wanted to do is
that being able to simulate
what would be the future climate
based on what has happened so far
and what'll be the impact
in case we keep doing
what we are doing
and to that end essentially
computer science
for the next 70 years or
so is going to be amazing,
doesn't matter what field it is
because computer science
is the crucial thing
for every engineering and science field.
- I guess what I enjoyed
most about computer science
was a combination of the
students and I guess the classes.
I really liked the
combination of the algorithms.
We had a couple of
classes operating systems,
just teamwork oriented,
it was kind of a small
knit group of students
so you kind of got to know everyone.
- Computer science is a very fun major.
I think it's one of the
more supportive majors
that is around campus and
everyone is just very open
and we're very concentrated
on building a good community of CS majors.
- Computer science is solving problems
that help make our lives easier and better
so whether that's finding
directions to your friends house
or finding the highest
rated restaurant in Golden
or whether it's the
smartphone in your pocket,
computer science is all around us.
- If computers and how they work
and the idea of managing data
and figuring out how to
look for patterns in that
and then help optimize
different problems is something
that sounds appealing to
you then computer science
is absolutely the right field to study.
- Definitely try computer science
even if you don't anything
about computers, just
trying out and seeing
that, you know, you have
a little bit more power
than you think you do in the technology
that we see every single day.
I would encourage you
to have an open mind.
One day it clicked and
everything just made sense
and from there like I knew this is exactly
what I wanna do all my life.
- So if you like to solve problems,
if you like to do puzzles,
if you have the type of
mind that loves things
that make sense logically,
computer science is a
good possibility for you.
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