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Comment on Ask HN: Should I drop my CS major to pursue being a self-taught web dev?parent

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This seems backwards - you didn't like business because it "taught you how to build things" (i.e. balance sheets) and liked econ for the theory...then you didn't like CS for the theory and switched to ECE to learn to build things.

I didn’t like business because it taught processes (the programming equivalent of this would be memorizing syntax), economics looks at setting up systems that incorporate those processes (building a mock economy and simulating the effects of pulling various economic strings isn’t very different than building a robot). Hope this helps.

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