Comment on Polisci

• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depends. A proper computer science course is basically math with machines. At the highest level, it may have zero programming at all.

  Software Engineering is, well, engineering (setting aside the whole debate on what makes a “real” engineer).

  It used to be that universities crammed both under “computer science”, and you had to look at the curriculum to figure out which one they were actually teaching. They tend to separate the two more clearly these days. Neither is really “science” in the strictest sense, but the term stuck now.

  source

  • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    math with machines

    so computer engineering?

    source

    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, the machines tend to be abstract. Such as an infinite paper tape that can manipulate symbols.

      source

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That experiment must be ludicrously expensive

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, computer engineering tends to focus more on hardware. When I was doing that kind of thing in college, computer engineering did things like chip design and logic boards and so on. I had courses on DSP and VLSI, multiple assembly languages, RISC vs CISC systems, and so on. In my university, it was considered a subspecializqtion of electrical engineering, with the first two years of undergraduate study being identical.

      When I switched over to CS, I was doing things like numerical analysis and software systems architecture.

      Both majors used math, but CE (as an EE major) required students to go through (iirc) calculus 5, and I think that CS majors could stop at calc 3 but would end up having to do different kinds of math after that.

      source
    • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, that’s machines with math

      source
    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Think of it more like programming without electricity.

      source
• yetAnotherUser@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s why informatics is by far the superior term. Computer science is such a boring terms anyways, you don’t call maths “number science”, biology "living beings science " or chemistry “atoms science” either.

  source

  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All of thoose are different. Computer science, computer engineering, software angineering and informatics are all different conceptually

    source

    • yetAnotherUser@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Accordingly, universities in continental Europe usually translate “informatics” as computer science, or sometimes information and computer science, although technical universities may translate it as computer science & engineering.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics

      source

      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        informatics is synonymous with computer science and computing as a profession,[3] in which the central notion is transformation of information.

        ^From the same link. Central notion is transformation of information

        Now,

        Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.[1][2][3] Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to applied disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software).[4][5][6]

        Also

        Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development.[1][2][3] A practitioner, a software engineer, applies the engineering design process to develop software.

        source
• lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My geophysicist friend laughed at me for a little long when I said “I’m a computer scientist”.

  I never took that degree/job position or whatever seriously anyway. I’ve always giggled at software engineering too. I just call myself a programmer.

  source

  • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One is your education and one is your job. It’d be like me chirping someone with a geophysics degree who’s working at Starbucks.

    source

    • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      lol, okay that made me chuckle … I liked that.

      Although, we both eventually got into the jobs for what we studied for. We’ve made that jokes both in university and when we got into respective fields.

      source