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How does Computer Science teach the basics? Doesn't most of the CS curriculum assume a Turing machine with infinite tape? At my university, most of the classes
by tremon 3y ago
How does Computer Science teach the basics? Doesn't most of the CS curriculum assume a Turing machine with infinite tape?
At my university, most of the classes the GP is talking about (logic design, microprocessor implementation, OS-level programming) were in the Electrical Engineering curriculum. The lowest level that the CS curriculum got to was writing a parser for a programming language.
- dlisboa 3y agoI learned about computer architecture in my CS curriculum. It seems there’s great variance to these courses, so it’s hard to assume your experience is the same everywhere. Mine had a good deal of practical applications, prefaced by theory. I know people who went to school and didn’t learn some “basic” things, that their curriculum didn’t prioritize. As time goes by the topics to focus also changes (should we have Machine Learning courses now?), so that’s to be expected.