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>(This includes biology, incidentally) It actually includes most of the pure natural sciences, and mathematics. Engineering is the track with the careers.
by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>(This includes biology, incidentally)
It actually includes most of the pure natural sciences, and mathematics. Engineering is the track with the careers.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThe "pure natural sciences" and mathematics are as much engineering as Computer Science is (or, perhaps more accurately, computer science is as little engineering as those other things), however much working programmers like to call themselves "Software Engineers".
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoComputer Science is a weird academic department. There is very much such a thing as the pure, non-engineering formal science of computing. However, most Comp Sci departments justify their budgets and existence by recourse to teaching undergraduates a minimal foundation in actual computer-science, and a substantial amount of software engineering, which is actually a separate field. Personally, I like pure computer science and CS academia, but most of the undergrads taking CS degrees are trying to learn software engineering, and will object loudly if asked to take, for instance, type theory, topology, computability and automata theory, statistical learning theory (ML courses have massive drop rates), computational complexity, Kolmogorov complexity theory, how to build an operating system, compilers and optimization, abstract interpretation for static analysis, mathematical logic, etc.