job opportunities that come with a degree.

The bad thing about computer science is there's plethora of

job opportunities that come with a degree. !!! XD

What's up guys, Forrest here ~

and today we're going to be talking about

carreer paths for computer science students

as I finished up my senior year of my computer science degree,

I've been applying to jobs, and luckily about a year or two ago

I really chose my emphasis within computer science

because I remember four years ago or so,

entering into this industry that I had no idea about.

Growing up, I worked on farms (hog farms)

or doing landscaping or just

a bunch of blue collar work so when it came to something like computer science

I had no idea how large

the industry was in the sense of

how many

different opportunities

that it would present you

I mean coming into computer science I knew that I wanted to

be able to develop applications for myself

for clients or for whatever company hires me

but then as I learned a little bit more and more about computer science

I'm like: Oh do I want to be a hacker? Everyone wants to be a hacker

You know? Whether you're just playing video games

or whether you're doing something even crazier,

it would be cool to be able to hack.

Or maybe, software development really isn't you're thing,

but you want to be in, you know you want to get your computer science degree

if you want to take it to the next level

you can do research in computer theory, or if you don't want to take it to the next level

you can do IT work, networks, and things of that nature.

There's so many things

that you can do with your computer science degree

that in this video I'm just gonna kind of lay out

the career paths for computer science and applying

what emphasis within your degree program

that you should choose, now keep in mind that

it depends on what college you go to for

what emphasis they offer so for some

they actually offer a whole software development degree

for others they offer a whole

information technology degree. Which my school offers

an information technology degree,

but of course I chose computer science. That interested me more

I'm not really into the whole

going into an IT department

messing with networking, and things of that nature. It's not my thing.

So in order for you to get the most out of it

think about what school you're going to or that you

plan to attend, by school I mean university, college, whatever,

go to their website find their

computer science program and look at what they offer

within that. My school offers, you know,

web programming, cyber security, networking,

and whatever else. I'm staying within the web programming

game development type area of my computer science degree program.

And of course, I must add,

I do iOS development on my own. Because to be honest with you,

most universities don't offer

an iOS development emphasis or course at all.

The closest I've gotten to it, is developing for android, which

as you probably saw on my channel, I'm in that course right now.

Before I really get into it I just want you to know

that I'm not going to go into full detail about every single career path that I mentioned

and I'm not going to mention every single last career path

because like I said, there are a lot. I'm just trying to

make this list for you to plant a seed in your head and

and give you a little bit of back information to see if that's for you

and then you can do more research on your own. And with that being said,

let's get into number one. And that would be

a Java or C++ Developer, because most

universities choose Java or C++

some actually choose C or some other languages as

as the base language for their computer science program

Because keep in mind when you go into a computer science degree

you probably have like

twenty base computer science courses

that you have to learn in order to satisfy the

degree requirements. Many of those are, computer theory,

computer architecture, computer science math

type courses. As well as programming.

And universities will stick to one, maybe two languages

so you can excel

at that language and you can use your knowledge of learning

that language, and of that language, weather it has

classes and you learn arrays

and you learn strings, variables, and constants, and just whatever else

in order to actually teach you programming.

So coming out of your computer science degree you should be able to

create one of these applications and you should be able to

jump into a team of Java developers or C++ developers.

And keep in mind, don't be scared, employers understand that you're a new graduate

you are new to the work force and you have to have

maybe a little bit longer of a period to adjust to that

work force. You know Google or Facebook

or one of those companies may not be so lenient, but

most companies will.

So that's number one. That's the base out of the way. Number two,

obviously this is going to be number two because it's my favorite is

mobile app developments. Now, until this semester

my degree program didn't even offer mobile development.

They said they did, but over the past two years

or three years even, they never offered this class once.

Until this semester.

And that is Android development, now two years ago I began my own journey

learning online iOS development

that's kind of what this channel has been a lot about

and those are the two main ways you can go about mobile development:

Android development, as well as iOS development.

Now, you can be a React Native or a Xamarin developer

where those softwares allow you to write one chunk of code

and it goes cross platform to the web,

to Android, as well as iOS. Instead of creating

something for web, and then something for Android,

and then something for iOS. But there aren't as many

job opportunities for a "Xamarin" or a "React Native" developer

as there is for an Android developer and an iOS developer.

So that's something to keep in mind.

And number three, just mentioned, Web development.