Why is it called "Computer Science"? What exactly makes Computer Science scientific?
Why is it called "Computer Science"? What exactly makes Computer Science scientific?
Justin Howard
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Jose Green
because it sounds a hell of a lot cooler than Mathematical Engineering
Jace Gray
science : A particular area of knowledge or study; a recognized branch of learning;
science : A discipline, field of study, or activity concerned with theory rather than method, or requiring the knowledge and systematic application of principles, rather than relying on traditional rules, acquired skill, or intuition.
science : A branch of study that deals with a connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified and more or less comprehended by general laws, and incorporating trustworthy methods
Oxford English Dictionary
from Latin scientia
Colton Rodriguez
what a retarded fucking post
Hunter Davis
I think they should call it Computer Computer.
Grayson Walker
fuck no it dont lol
Blake Lopez
In what way is it retarded?
Leo Clark
long, said absolutely nothing, and still comes off as pretentious
Matthew Gomez
It means that "science" doesn't equate to utilisation of the "scientific method", unless you specify in a given context, that it does. In this, mathematics and computer science are sciences.
Nathaniel King
the context is Veeky Forums. there are other boards for things that are "science" but not science.
Dominic Nguyen
no.
computing computers
Jeremiah Thomas
what else would you call it?
applied math with compilers?
Wyatt Ross
Would it not be more accurate to call it computer logic? It shares more in common with formalized philosophical logic than it does modern science.
Easton Torres
For example research in quantum computer is scientific.
Some work in complexity theory might also be considered as a science.
If you have an engineering field (and CS has a lot of engineering topics),
some might consider research in that field as science, because it follows heuristic methods.
Sebastian Rivera
>Computer "engineer"
Nothing triggers me more than this
Matthew Adams
Somebody post that gif and source to that lecture, please. It's on YouTube but o lost the link.
Jaxson Ramirez
astrology science
esoteric science
Luddite science
bible science
etc.
Bentley Moore
Computer science is a misnomer, it's really the study of systems.
Brayden Martinez
lmao that sounds so much more intelligent than "muh computers"
Jacob Perez
Everyone agrees that the English name is shit. Even CS students.
Nathaniel Scott
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Austin Nelson
Sounds advanced as fuck desu
Jaxon Cook
it doesn't get shit done
t. engineer
David Lee
Came here to post this
Daniel Richardson
1986 kino comin through
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Jayden White
CS is in fact a science, mathematics is also an experimental science. It may not look like it to you undergrads reading rudin or whatever but how those theorems and "slick" proofs were found was with hypotheses, trial and errror
Ethan Torres
nah, "science" as in the general word, not scientific science, is better because the field is actually extremely broad. T.bh it should be broken up and dispersed into new fields + preexisting fields.
Dominic Ross
How is computer science the study of systems? That would be cybernetics, buddy.
Samuel Rodriguez
Is software engineering something Veeky Forums considers an engineering field??
Luis Brooks
What a homossexual.
Depends. Compiler/assembly software engineering or wordpress/javascript "software engineerin"g?
Jace Butler
Audible kek
Aiden Jenkins
>"Am computor scientist"
*crickets*
>"I am a mathematical engineer"
Literally every qt asian grad student on your dick