You are right man
If a C- is enough to pass Analysis of Algorithms, then a Computer Science degree can make me a Computer Scientist. :P
You need C++ for computer science, though!
wow you have a degree I’m soooooo impressed
I mean, nowadays you need to be very smart and educated to google efficiently and avoid all the AI traps, missinformation, stackoverflow mods tripping, reading reddit threads on an issue with half the comments deleted because of the APIcalypse etc… sooo you could argue that you’re somewhat of a scientist yourself
Had a discussion with my 8yo niece the other day… turned out the lesson was, sometimes it can be worse to know the wrong thing than to know nothing at all.
Depends on the context. When my company proposes me to a client for work I am, but oddly during my yearly performance review I am just some smuck who programs.
If you want to know how computers work, do electrical engineering. If you want to know how electricity works, do physics. If you want to know how physics works, do mathematics. If you want to know how mathematics works, too bad, best you can do is think about the fact it works in philosophy.
all roads lead to philosophy
Everything is philosophy until it becomes science. Unless it’s anything to do with politics then it just remains philosophy forever.
Science is a subdiscipline of philosophy.
If you want to know how philosophy works, do sociology…
It’s kind of like a horseshoe with philosophy and math at the ends.
A horseshoe capped off by Computer Science 😉
Maybe I’m missing something, but I’d count theoretical computer science as a subfield of math, and practical software engineering among the other engineerings on the harder side of the centre.
I wouldn’t disagree with that. Discrete mathematics was a core subject when I did my Computer Science course.
But I do still laugh when I tell people I’m a ‘scientist’, with my fingers crossed behind my back of course 😉
If you want to no longer want to know how anything works, do biochemistry
Too real
I’m something of a scientist myself
Surely you must be a master of linear algebra and Euclidean geometry
Nope, it means you’re a Computer Engineer.
computer engineer refers to someone who engineers computer hardware. more like being a (digital) electrical engineer.
Yea I dont think people are catching the sarcasm of not having capital E Engineers in all countries.
I have been coding since I was 10 years old. I have a CS degree and have been in professional IT for like 30 years. Started as a developer but I’m primarily hardware and architecture now. I have never ever said I was a computer scientist. That just sounds weird.
Yeah you’d really only say it on the theoretical side of things, I’ve definitely heard it in research and academia but even then people usually point to the particulars of their work first
good they escaped early
“Engineer of Information”, please 😎
I mean, I am applying various kinds of science but I’m not actually doing any science so I’m not thinking about myself as a scientist. What I do is solving problems - I’m an engineer.
My ex boss describes himself as such. King of the dickheads.
Be me, a computer scientist who still struggles with XOR.
Wait til you see XNAND
My favorite was always XANEX
what fuck that one does
Turns all your zeros into ones.
