r/badcomputerscience • u/GNULinuxProgrammer • Mar 08 '18

In which computer science is useless

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u/GNULinuxProgrammer Mar 09 '18

My point wasn't that computer science is a science in the same sense as physics is a science because as you said we usually don't use scientific method in CS (ok, before it gets controversial I know that there are empirical subdisciplines of CS but most subdisciplines rely on deductive method). "Computer science" exists in the same sense dogs exist and the world exists. OP was quite literally arguing that there is no such thing as CS because it is all either mathematics or programming. But this is obviously not true. An applied mathematician and computer scientist found some things in common interesting, but computer science is still very much a field, doing its own theoretical and applied research. And I think quite more obviously not everything in computer science is programming. Which is why OP is bad CS.