Computer Science conflict!

The best long-term plan is clearly to go with Comp Sci, but you don't necessarily need a long-term plan at this point. If you specifically want to go into graphics, then Graphics is going to be the fastest way there.

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Planto

The best long-term plan is clearly to go with Comp Sci, but you don't necessarily need a long-term plan at this point. If you specifically want to go into graphics, then Graphics is going to be the fastest way there.

This, going into Computer Science will give you more options sure but are they better options for you personally? There is not much point spending years at a Computer Science degree, then working some coding job you hate for years while you try and build up a graphics portfolio in your own time off your own bat.

If you are dead set on graphics and have the talent and love it then I think you should pick that course. One focusing on 3D game graphics should give you a good number of choices after University. These guys are in high demand in the games industry and they are in reasonably short supply. Furthermore, it looks like a damn fun job! If I could go back in time this is what I would do but ive gone too far down the Computer Science route to bother changing now.

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polar_wrath11

If you do Computer Science, you've got a good degree under your belt, and you can specialise in Graphics, Vision and Media

BTW, I wouldn't be lumping Vision in with Graphics and Media. Vision is just a load of boring auld Maths :frown:

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Reply 5

Hesky

OP

so would i be able to get graphic designer jobs with computer science degree? and also if i went in just graphics then wanted to do networking for e.g. would that make me a useless candidate because i have graphics degree? thanks

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vox

Computer graphics (as a sub-field of CS) is software engineering - with a focus on algorithms - and is inherently mathematical. Be prepared to pour over 500-page long linear algebra textbooks of an evening.

No thats not Computer Graphics, thats Computer Vision. Computer Graphics envolves using modeling packages in an artistic manner to make 3D/2D graphics.

vox

Graphic design is an artistic discipline, is it not? If so, then it has nothing to do with CS.

This is correct, the OP is getting confused, he initally said he wanted to do a course in Computer Graphics which is not the same as a course in Graphic Design.

vox

Networking may well appear as an elective within a CG degree; or, if you want both, try Computer Science or Computer Games Technology. You would attain the transferable software engineering skills on a graphics course that can also be applied to networking, and given that networking is - IMO - an easier subject matter, you shouldn't have any problem adapting.

I think there would be little if any chances to study Networking on a CG degree, its a completly different career path. Computer Games Techonology is mostly Programing, Physics and Maths so not really appropriate. Computer Science is unlikely to touch on Computer Graphics either.

Really it comes down to a career choice OP, it is possible to train yourself later in networking or build up a CG portfolio later but these are not easy options. So try and make the right choice for you now.

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toasted

I'd be careful about reading too much into the content degrees based on the title alone. If the same department offers several different sounding degrees, you can be pretty sure that there will be a significant amount of overlap between them. Looking at the modules that make up a degree is the only way to get a feel for what it will be like.

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Psyk

TheQueenOfComputerScience

No thats not Computer Graphics, thats Computer Vision. Computer Graphics envolves using modeling packages in an artistic manner to make 3D/2D graphics.

That might have been what one particular uni called a unit with that content. But generally speaking computer graphics encompasses a whole load of stuff. At Bristol there was a computer graphics unit (hardcore maths and algorithms about how a computer can build images), a modelling unit (how you use a software package that implements those algorithms) and a computer vision unit (the opposite of computer graphics, algorithms for how a computer can extract information from an existing image).

Reply 9

Hesky

OP

I AM SO STUCK.....lol! because last thing i want is to get a low salary job or not even get a job after graduation because i chose a subject i loved and was god at like graphics....

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vox

Note the 'sub-field of CS' part. This is the Computer Graphics to which I refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_graphics_%28computer_science%29. It certainly isn't Computer Vision, nor does it relate to art. Had I used the term generally, it could have referred to the art or science of Computer Graphics.

Ok fair enough! I was refering to Computer Graphics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_graphics haha! Which is what I think the course title probably refers to.

Reply 11

Psyk

That might have been what one particular uni called a unit with that content. But generally speaking computer graphics encompasses a whole load of stuff. At Bristol there was a computer graphics unit (hardcore maths and algorithms about how a computer can build images), a modelling unit (how you use a software package that implements those algorithms) and a computer vision unit (the opposite of computer graphics, algorithms for how a computer can extract information from an existing image).

I'm pretty sure that as a degree Computer Graphics generally means the modelling you are talking about. I only know one person who has done a degree in it and I don't know what University they went to but that was what their course was on.

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Hesky

I AM SO STUCK.....lol! because last thing i want is to get a low salary job or not even get a job after graduation because i chose a subject i loved and was god at like graphics....

If you are good at it and have a good Computer Graphics degree and a good portfolio you probably wont be in a low paid job though.

Reply 13

Psyk

TheQueenOfComputerScience

I'm pretty sure that as a degree Computer Graphics generally means the modelling you are talking about. I only know one person who has done a degree in it and I don't know what University they went to but that was what their course was on.

Yeah, you're probably right if it's a whole undergraduate degree course we're talking about. But I'd have thought they'd still do a fair amount of the maths involved too.

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Planto