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Is CS science?

>> No.2485777
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2485777

Yes. I suck @ Counterstrike though..

>> No.2486035

maybe

>> No.2486038

mite b science

>> No.2486051

the math part is. The programming part isn't.

>> No.2486055

>>2485768
No, not really, it's not really about computers either.

>> No.2486094

Your question asks

"Is computer science science?

Answer is in the question.

/thread

>> No.2486097

How can they zoom peyond pixel level?

That's not simply science... THAT'S ALMOST MAGIC!

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>> No.2486375

>>2486094
>implying elliptic curves are ellipses and curves
They're neither, fucktard. And just because something has "science" in its name doesn't make it so.

>> No.2486385

>elliptic curves are ellipses and curves
They're conics sections with an extra x³ term. Close enough....

>> No.2486409

>>2485768
Yes it is. A lot of people are misinformed about computer science, and they believe it is programming. It's why there are so many failures who go in thinking they're going to learn to make vidya gaems and they get mad because they can't pass 200 level discrete mathematics courses.

Computer science is not programming. Programming is to computer science as operating a telescope is to astronomers.

>> No.2486411

>>2486094
>implying Scientology is science

>> No.2486456

>>2486299
>implying engineering isn't watered down babby's first science
>implying biology isn't all trust fund babies and dick sucking blondes that promised daddy they'd be a surgeon
>implying physics isn't math major rejection central
>implying chemistry isn't "lol couldn't decide between biology and physics so here's this"
>implying astronomy isn't wanking over lights in the sky and having dreams about Star Wars ships going to planets

>> No.2486468

>>2486456
lol'd hard

>> No.2486512
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2486512

>take a single discrete mathematics course
>prance around sprouting you're a mathematician
>can't do multidimensional & vector calculus
>can't solve simple partial differential equations or even ordinary diff equations
>can't prove even simple theorems like the cantor-bernstein-schroeder theorem
>can't complex analysis
>knows no (real) analysis
>knows no abstract algebra

>"Piff CS is basically Math; brb I have faggotry 101 and Computer Science III in a hour"

>> No.2486529

>>2486512
>implying CS students pretend to be mathemagicians
>implying all of that fluffity theorem and analysis bullshit will get you a job anywhere outside of academia
>implying I'm not a CS major and I didn't take real analysis, PDE, Calc III, discrete math, and number and graph theory as my electives

>> No.2486548

>>2486512
How's community college, buddy?

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>>2486094

political science confirmed for science

>> No.2486586

>>2486529
>>2486529
yes, I mean, what the hell do they use multidimensional & vector calculus,partial differential equations or complex analysis for. it has no practical uses.

>> No.2486601

>>2486586
If you're saying that complex analysis has no practical uses then you don't deserve to call yourself a mathematician.

Pretty ironic, considering I'm a CS major.

>> No.2486610

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY

>00:30
>computer science is a terrible name for this business
>first of all, it's not a science

Computer science is magic!

>> No.2486626

>>2486610
Funny how most people never survived past the first lecture of the SICP lectures. Heck, they probably never even finished the first one.

>> No.2486637

Algorithms
Complexity theory
Theory of computation
Boolean logic
Linear algebra, single variable calculus

There's actually very little programming in CS ;_;

>> No.2486649

>>2486637
Name one school that requires a dedicated class on Boolean Algebra for a CS degree.

Name one school that requires a dedicated class on Complexity Theory for a CS degree.

>> No.2486673

>>2486649
Boolean algebra is part of system architecture here (logic gates, registers, ALU's etc).

Complexity theory is part of theory of computation and algorithms & data structures.

>> No.2486863

>Linear algebra, single variable calculus
omfg no fuck way! Figuring out d/dx(x²)=2x is
so fucking hard and take soo much time; how do you geniuses ever manage?

>> No.2486880

>>2486299
PFFT, oh yeah Engineers, why don't you go hang out with the Biologists

>> No.2486937

>>2486299
Fact: Scientists and computer scientists will go on to add knowledge to their respective fields while engineers will never be anything more than glorified technicians that apply other people's work

>> No.2486940

>>2486673
Same here, Boolean algerbra is part of Digital System Design (basically digital logic, logic gates, etc).

>> No.2486999

Our uni's CS lets you do different areas of emphasis. The one area that seems to have any advanced math is Computer Theory. Linear algebra, combinatorics, graph theory, and multivariable calc.

>> No.2487059

>>2486863
Who said anything about it being hard? Anyway it's only the first of 3 required math courses, I'm just finishing up the second now which was mostly linear algebra, algebraic structures, fields and vector spaces. The last one is multi-variable calculus and stochastics/probability I think.

>> No.2487661

testing new tripcode..methinks this will not work...but meh.

>> No.2487682

>>2487661
fail. again.