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I'm being completely twitchy and pedantic and missing the point entirely but I'm still compelled to say, as a Mathematics and Computer Science teacher: Compute

by pflats 13y ago

I'm being completely twitchy and pedantic and missing the point entirely but I'm still compelled to say, as a Mathematics and Computer Science teacher: Computer Science is a branch of mathematics. It consists of axiomatic systems. There are many, many, many sure things in computer science.

JonnieCache 13y ago
It might have been better phrased as "the only sure thing in software engineering" but that doesn't sound as good.
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- etler 13y ago
  Or pretty much... all engineering.
- pflats 13y ago
  Oh, I understand. I just have a personal quixotic crusade about the distinction between the two. Computer programming and computer science are parallel fields that complement each other. Too many students who want to learn to program major in computer science, because nobody tells them what CS actually is. IS or IT with a CS minor might suit them a lot more.
serge2k 13y ago
There are many things built off of a basic set of axioms which are internally consistent. Unless you can prove that those axioms are sure things then how can anything be a "sure thing"?