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Computing Science is a lot better name. I prefer to use that term to "Computer Science".
by shmerl 7y ago
Computing Science is a lot better name. I prefer to use that term to "Computer Science".
- kayoone 7y agoIn Europe it's usually called Informatics, even in some Universities in the UK i believe, but it's totally absent from US literature it seems.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI think Oxford still calls it Computation, which makes the most sense to me - it's the computation that we're interested in, and the computer is incidental.
- shmerl 7y agoYeah, Computation Science is a good term too.
- mhh__ 7y agoOn the one hand yes, but I think Computer science (as a superset) is the better name due to the added focus on learning how computers "actually" work. The focus should be on computing, but understanding the machine is very important
- User23 7y agoI agree with your observations, but reached the opposite conclusion and prefer Computing Science as a name. I take this as evidence that it’s not really important what we call it so long as we’re clear on what’s being studied.
- WomanCanCode 7y agoWe are doing more with software now than ever before so I think we need to move away from the word 'compute'