Are you thinking about, or currently in, a Computer Science (CS) program? Do you have questions about the field, and want to know what to expect, and often ask yourself, is this the right place for me? Well, those types of questions, and more will be answered here.

As an Assistant Professor and Under Grad student advisor to CS students, I’ve seen lots of these questions so I would like to answer these for you and others. If you have a question you’d like to answer, please feel free to drop it, or them if you have more than one, in the comment section below. (Either here or on the YouTube link above.)

I’m going to focus on CS students and studies specifically, although other STEM programs, and other fields might also find an interest in some of the questions as well.

I currently plan to answer a question every week, posting them on Monday’s at 9AM, so look for them then.

New Series – Questions and Answers for new Computer Science Students was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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