Subject: What Is Computer Science?
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@buffalo.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:00:34 -0500 (EST)

A student writes:
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According to me,computer science is all about making a computer work in
the way we want.to be precise,make the processor compute the results of
an input according to our interest.this is generally done in assembly
language but since it is difficult,early comp.scientists came up with
programming languages.computer science-if not writing the code all the
time,it atleast revolve around making a code.all the things we do-is
definitely an attempt of making a better code.people argue that cs is
not all about coding.but if we dont code what we imagined and worked
upon,there is almost no reason for doing all the work.yeah we have a
lot of other entities in cs that donot involve coding.but we do that
only to code in the later stage of the work.any course or topic in
computer science is in one way or the other,related to programming or
developing a program in a better way than it currently is.  if we dont
put anything into programs,it should not be called computer
science.like designing an algorithm to improve something without
converting it into a program surely cant be called cs(it might come
under someother genre,say, optimization for mechanical engineers).