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lapfog_1

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14. as someone who has been programming for over 50 years now

Tue Oct 22, 2019, 12:22 AM

Oct 2019

starting with Algol 68 (when I was a wee lad)... having taught Computer Science for 5 years... CS is not math... it is more like puzzle solving or game playing.

Yes, you need some basic math skills.
There is logic and order to the process.
There is also art and elegance.

but I also did a pure math undergraduate... and it had little to do with CS.

OTOH, at my university, the school of Journalism counted "intro to Computer Science" as satisfying a "foreign language requirement" which was all kind of special for the teachers of CS 101. So there is that.

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Florida schools: Computer science now counts as math credit - is this a good idea? [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2019 OP

It is math, IMO. Laffy Kat Oct 2019 #1

Yea FirstLight Oct 2019 #6

Me, too! How a woman who flunked ninth-grade algebra... Laffy Kat Oct 2019 #9

Programming involves logic Midnightwalk Oct 2019 #13

haha FirstLight Oct 2019 #15

Haha i kept trying to stop Midnightwalk Oct 2019 #16

Yes zaj Oct 2019 #2

yes as long as it is true computer science DBoon Oct 2019 #3

yes, to be good at programming you have a lot of math involved. I think the idea is GREAT! nt napi21 Oct 2019 #4

No zipplewrath Oct 2019 #5

No flyingfysh Oct 2019 #7

Back in the dark ages, there were accounting firms who considered a music degree Hoyt Oct 2019 #8

Yes. And also as a foreign language credit. eom IllinoisBirdWatcher Oct 2019 #10

I know almost nothing about coding, PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2019 #11

As long as cooking classes count as chemistry intrepidity Oct 2019 #12

as someone who has been programming for over 50 years now lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #14

I view the issue as an engineer. Blue_true Oct 2019 #18

Yes. Blue_true Oct 2019 #17