Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jul 8, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Lan Barnes wrote:
OK, this was on Slashdot so you may have already seen it, but just in
case
Yup. I need to read the book to really understand its point, but I
thought people always understood that there was a difference between
"programming" and "computer science". Certainly, lots of folks do
programming without ever understanding computer science, and it is
entirely possible to get a PhD in computer science and still be a lousy
programmer. To me, it is like the difference between an electrician and
an electrical engineer. Some people are good at both, but one shouldn't
confuse the two just because they both involve electricity and circuits.
I would change that a little.
It's like the difference between a physicist (computer science) and an
electrical engineer (programmer).
To be a good electrical engineer (programmer) you need far less of the
depth from physics (computer science), but you need a much broader base.
Computer science really needs to be split into computer science (mostly
theoretical math) and computer programming (mostly application of
algorithms).
-a
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