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Eh, I at least understand getting a BS in computer science degree if it's in the engineering school. As an engineer I'm required to take a very math and science
by Locke1689 17y ago
Eh, I at least understand getting a BS in computer science degree if it's in the engineering school. As an engineer I'm required to take a very math and science heavy course load and all the various engineering core curricula. In addition, I can see computer science as being categorized as science for historical reasons, but if it's not science it is at least applied mathematics. Given that applied math is an engineering degree, I see no reason why computer science shouldn't be.
In contrast, not only does political science have nothing to do with science, but the course requirements aren't even science related. Maybe, if you're lucky, you'll take one basics statistics course. However, I have yet to see a polisci course that requires differential equations.
- eru 17y agoYes. I just posted the fortune cookie because it's funny. In German we talk about natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften) and mind sciences (Geisteswissenschaften). I guess it's just in English that sciencies implies natural sciences. Interestingly, while using math is in practice the hallmark of a proper science, in theory the experiment as final arbiter separates the sciences from the rest. So math, with no experiments to rely on, is not considered a proper science.
- Locke1689 17y agoYou're not gonna believe this but I was going to say the same thing. I speak German and was going to mention Naturwissenschaften/Geisteswissenschaften but I figured no one else on HN spoke German so it wouldn't be that helpful :) BTW I wasn't using math as an example of why computer science is a science, but rather why it can be justified that computer science gets placed in the school of engineering and one earns a B.S.