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You're describing software engineering, not computer science. CS is big-O, Chomsky hierarchy, finite automata, type theory, and computability classes. It's the
by ggreer 11y ago
You're describing software engineering, not computer science.
CS is big-O, Chomsky hierarchy, finite automata, type theory, and computability classes. It's the study of algorithms & data structures, not their implementations. In other words, CS is a branch of math.
- mpweiher 11y agoYou're describing theoretical computer science: Theoretical computer science is a division or subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on more abstract or mathematical aspects of computing and includes the theory of computation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_computer_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_computer_science