Hello student, prior knowledge of coding is not mandatory for admission into computer science engineering if you've prior knowledge then it's a plus point but even if you Don't have prior knowledge of coding you need not to worry as you'll get the knowledge of coding from the very basic in college. So yes you can choose computer science engineering without any doubt if you're interested in it. Computer science engineering is one of the top tier branch and the demand of Computer science engineer graduate are more in comparison of other engineer graduate.

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