New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do electrical engineering majors work harder than CS majors?
Ask HN: Do electrical engineering majors work harder than CS majors?
4 by hiAndrewQuinn | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I finished my EE degree back in 2020, but I never really got the sense I was working harder than my friends in CS. If anything I felt we sparkies had it a bit easier, because although the computations could be tricky and precise, we didn't usually have classes that required proof-flavored thinking similar to those infamous data structures and algorithms classes the CS kids did (well, okay, most of us did, but that was by elective choice and a minor in math in my case). Some chatter on Twitter is making it sound like most people believe the opposite to be true. So I pose it to you, hackers: Which one do you think requires more work, and under what circumstances/presuppositions?
4 by hiAndrewQuinn | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I finished my EE degree back in 2020, but I never really got the sense I was working harder than my friends in CS. If anything I felt we sparkies had it a bit easier, because although the computations could be tricky and precise, we didn't usually have classes that required proof-flavored thinking similar to those infamous data structures and algorithms classes the CS kids did (well, okay, most of us did, but that was by elective choice and a minor in math in my case). Some chatter on Twitter is making it sound like most people believe the opposite to be true. So I pose it to you, hackers: Which one do you think requires more work, and under what circumstances/presuppositions?
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