What is computer science research like?
So I’m a computer science major, but it’s not what I thought it was. A semester has gone by and all I did was learn C/C++, a bit more java, and been tasked to make stupid GUI programs and other junk like that. Future courses don’t offer much hope. I don’t really see why I need to learn how to design operating systems or techniques on programming for multi core processors. I find that boring. I’d like to solve some kind of theoretical problem. Something engaging I suppose. Yet I have no idea what is out there for pure computer science. I could find little information about big problems in computer science other than P=NP which I am most likely not smart enough to solve. Is this a sign of obscurity or a sign of little other research available. I know there is logic in computer science and we did some stuff with ‘Big O notation’ in a course. Is there research going on with that stuff? Right now, I don’t feel like I’m really learning anything that could be called a science.
