Ask HN: I'm a non-CS major. What CS courses should I take?

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Me: philosophy major very interested in tech entrepreneurship. Moreso business than computer science, but I've decided that the best way to get my ideas off the ground is to build them myself. Seeing that I have a lot of elective credits, I want to take as many CS courses as possible. My question to you is: what CS-specific courses should I take to help me build web applications? I'm not particularly interested in AI, higher-level math, and most other "technical" subjects. I just want to build web businesses. But, I would like to get at least some of the "theory" that a CS major provides. ---- Some possible options (that are available at my school). These are after the "intro-to-cs" class. Of these, what do you recommend? And what am I missing? DATA STRUCTURES This course emphasizes the study of the basic data structures of computer science (stacks, queues, trees, lists, graphs) and their implementations using the Java language. Included in this study are programming techniques which u

Published 31 Aug 2011
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