Jeremy Budd's story from today's paper highlights the rising trend of people majoring in computer science at Columbia and nationwide. We caught up with six students studying comp sci or computer engineering, and here's what they had to say about why it appealed to them.
Pierre Gergis, CC '12
When I first took the introductory course in computer science (1004), I had no idea what it was to program—where they're written, how they're run, and whether I could accidentally break my computer by running one of my own. But I took the class because I wanted a challenge, and exposure to a field that was thoroughly foreign to me, yet clearly intimately influential in daily experiences.
There's more after the jump!
