>Computer science is often treated as an offshoot of mathematics when, in reality, you need to do far, far more writing than advanced math. Most students are go

>Computer science is often treated as an offshoot of mathematics when, in reality, you need to do far, far more writing than advanced math. Most students are going to be leaving school and working on professional programming, where they'll largely work with a group of people jointly maintaining systems. And these systems require good writing skills to effectively write documentation for the code, as well as writing the design documentation. Computer science is an offshoot of mathematics— or it was until everyone decided that "computer science" meant "software engineering."