In what direction should a novice programmer develop?

Question

IT education

Good time of the day. I am a college student, 4th year, specialty - "Software Engineering". It so happened that even in the fourth year I do not feel that I know something well in this area, although according to my grades I am the second in the department. All knowledge is general and superficial. Perhaps this is the result of the fact that almost all of our teachers come from a disbanded factory. But back to the crux of the matter. Is it worth going to a university where there is a specialty "Software Engineering" or should I choose something else? We have already been offered to go to "Information Technical Security Systems" and "System Engineering". I think that closer to the end of the year there will be more options, however, you need to think now. In general, such things. I understand that I myself have to choose, but I would like to hear the opinion of people who have already gone through this. Thank you.

Answer 1

You wrote correctly - you have to choose. What you like more, what you are more drawn to. If it's not worth engineering, go to security or systems. The work should be such that it brings pleasure, this is the most important thing. The salary in this case will be a very nice free bonus.

Answer 2

I'll tell you about myself: from the Olympiads I entered the faculty with a tempting name, where they promised to teach programming. As a result, the first course - Fortran, easy tasks; there was no programming at all in the second year. But they were taught to work on the machines and draw drawings. In the end, he dropped out of college.

My advice is to find those who are already studying at specific faculties, in specific specialties, find out what they do. The name of the specialty / faculty, in my opinion, may not correlate well with reality.

Answer 3

In general, it seems to me that it makes no sense to go ... it’s just that they don’t teach programming at universities (friends, friends of friends), as such, everything is about. For example, I am an automator, but I don’t have programming, as such))

Answer 4

It is definitely worth studying further, because they teach, although superficially, but everything at once, they make a universal specialist so that in the future there would be no problems with learning a particular programming language.