Subject: What Is CS? From: "William J. Rapaport" Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:14:37 -0500 (EST) A student had written: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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). And now another student replies: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I like your definition of computer science and I strongly believe that people who choose to be in this field should devote enough time and effort mastering this art of coding and learning how computer does all the things it do.