Is CS science or math?
Is CS science or math?
Nicholas Carter
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Dylan Bell
neither
Aaron Nelson
I'd call it engineering in the broadest sense due to its immediate practical application.
Asher Watson
Computer Science is largely just mathematics. Many people who are studying computer science however are not in it for computer science, and most computer science graduates will never work as "computer scientists".
You are wrong.
Justin Richardson
For example in my UNI only one of the CS masters programmes are strictly CS, so also
Landon Torres
mathematics has 'immediate practical application' but i wouldn't call it engineering.
cs is based in math and theoretical cs is pretty much just math, most other fields like AI and HCI are science, and the (((app)))lication of cs is engineering
Logan Perry
>mathematics has 'immediate practical application'
Not for the last several centuries. Nowadays it passes time juggling theoretical infinities.
Sebastian Ward
Just math that happens to be occasionally implementable as programms on computers. Nice fixpoint combinator on that pic btw.
Landon Morales
The best of both
Jonathan Hill
Science.
Because otherwise to many things are "just math".
Physics is just math.
Business economics is just math.
Astronomy is just math.
Balancing chemical equations is just math.
Weather forecasting is just math.