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What are some recourses and skills recommended for high school students looking to major and eventually get into the field of computer engineering? ?

I am currently a junior in high school and am taking AP CSA

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Steve’s Answer

Physics, Chemistry, Math, English. Most university engineering schools require these as pre-requisites to a computer engineering major. You are already taking computer programming -- that's good to continue with, but the fundamental math, science, and communications (reading, writing) are actually more important than computer programming. If you have electives like informal logic (philosophy) and math classes like calculus and/or statistics, go for those. The point is to focus on learning how to think like an engineer: how to teach yourself, how to express yourself, and how to decompose a problem into techniques that can be applied to solve it.
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Computer aided drafting.
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Dan’s Answer

In addition to traditional classes (as suggested in the other answers), you can also learn many skills on your own. Learning on your own is great preparation for an engineering career because your work efforts will be constantly changing to new technology and new applications. It will also increase your hands-on experience prior to taking college classes which will allow you to more fully grasp the college material.

I suggest you purchase an Arduino UNO and use it to build projects that you find interesting. The Arduino UNO is a small microcontroller that you can program to read sensors and control things like motors and servos. Think robots, alarms, temperature measurement, etc, so just pick an interesting project with good instructions and build it. You can Google for "Arduino Projects" (there are many) and purchase one online at Aliexpress (about $10 for a basic kit including wires and an assortment of sensors and switches) or you can buy one on Amazon from a USA firm for about $25. Note: Aliexpress is less expensive but shipping can be one to two months.

After trying the Arduino UNO, you can progress to either the the Raspberry PI Zero W or a Raspberry PI Pico.
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