All my life i thought both of them are the same, now in my last two months in senior high school i need to pick a course to take in college, im really not sure if im going to take ComSci or IT. Not asking for what to take, i just need to know the difference of the two when it comes to what you will be doing in your company.
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BInfTech is more like an arts degree for programmers. There are many more optional subjects, where you can choose from a wide range. BSci compsci is a science degree with a lot more compulsory subjects. There is a lot of overlap between the two if you chose to do your BInfTech like that. Altertnatively you may choose a more broad degree, and get experience across a range of business subjects and skip the super technical stuff.
(Source: I did a BInfTech, graduating in 2003. I chose to include a subject from each of accounting, commerce, psychology, earth science, as well as all the typical programming, data structures, AI, networks, security, and so on. Because I chose some electives from business areas, I didn’t study compilers and interpretters , functional programming (Haskell), or Operating Systems. Those are about the only three I can think I missed out on from what is covered in a CompSci degree)
From my experience an IT degree allows you to study more subjects (than a CompSci degree) that would be useful in the wider business world at the cost of being less technical.
(The other big “programming” degree is a bachelor of engineering majoring in software engineering)
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