Maths A Level or Computing? I really need help!?

Question

Ok so im not amazingly great at maths my mental arithmatic sucks however i can do the differentiation and the more complicated stuff ok. Now my old maths teacher from my sixth form college says i will never pass and with him i never did. The college i applied to says im more than capable of passing what with the entry exam i sat and they feel i have a small amount of dyslexia. Now my concern is one college is offering me Maths but not physics, now i like physics a LOT. the other college is offering me Computing (programming) which i can already do. Now im not sure if i want to take a physics degree when im older or a computing course. What would you say is more versatile for me changing my mind at a later date?

Answer 1

If your goal is gainful employment, then there are more computing jobs than physics jobs.

There is much more to studying computing than just programming,

so you'll be able to find interesting things if you choose that path.

If the computing program is strictly computing and no pure maths,

that will prove more of a handicap should you want to change course

and pursue physics.

It would be easier to pick up on a computing path later should you

decide not to pursue pure maths/physics.

Note that the maths for physics is rather different

than that used in computing.  Physics is much more

on the calculus side (continuous functions, that sort

of things), computing is on the number theory/algebra

side of the house.

Just my opinion: I got lost somewhere in the second term of first year physics (which never really interested me all that much in the first place),

and pursued maths and computing very contentedly, going to all

computer science and eventually commercial employment.

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