Do you really think people could make programmable microchips and processing units before they figured out physics?
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months agoI’m not entirely sure of that. You can’t have comp sci without algebra and potentially calculus. I could see a society that developed all three fields before they codified Physics
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, but mechanical concerns mputwrs existed before microchips. They just weren’t terribly useful
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Once I get my mechanical computer to run crysis we’ll see who’s laughing.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Wouldn’t you also need to know physics in order to make a mechanical computer?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not necessarily. We had the theory before both calculus and physics.
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
What kind of argumentation is this? Are we talking about mechanical engineering or computer science? Please don’t bent reality the way it fits your shape.
force@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How do you have computer science without calculus? Calculus is literally necessary for computer science, otherwise it’d just be like… shitty statistics with a little programming
Miaou@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Care to expand? Things like complexity theory and type theory, for example, have nothing to do with calculus
force@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In general, a lot of the stuff computer science shares with data science uses calculus, a lot of the statistics too, but also visuals and modelling other sciences (e.g. simulations) use calculus heavily. I recall utilising vector calc a decent amount when working with Vulkan, for example
Miaou@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Sounds like programming more than CS, in that case, fair enough. Also the linear algebra in computer graphics is, well, algebra, not calculus.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It would be inelegant as all fuck, but you could get away with just algebra, there are comp sci courses that only need algebra as the foundation.
force@lemmy.world 10 months ago
as far as i can tell, the ones that do that are usually just programming courses with “computer science” slapped onto the title. but i havent exactly gone to many colleges so i don’t have the experience to say so.