What is it? Not a single language
Computer Science is a subset of the discipline of Computing
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[theory]
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The only computer science book worth reading twice?
- Structure and interpretation of computer programs by Hal Abelson and Jerry Sussman (MIT Press. 1984. ISBN 0-262-01077-1), also known as SICP
- lambda-abstraction and higher-order computation
- complex data structures, including structures with embedded computational content
- modularity and mutability
- streams
- lazy evaluation
- interpreter and compiler construction
- storage management, garbage collection and virtual memory
- machine code
- domain-specific languages
- All in
scheme! - Amazing to have a book that spans all the layers of abstraction beyond the primitive procedural languages at the time.
- Structure and interpretation of computer programs by Hal Abelson and Jerry Sussman (MIT Press. 1984. ISBN 0-262-01077-1), also known as SICP
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EWD 1041 prof. dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra 1989
- CS Education sucks
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CS faculty members from all over the world, and the vast majority of them —I mean about 95 % of them— cannot program a Binary Search. It is a very shocking percentage, but you can take my word for it.
- Managers think programming is lowest common denominator and faults happen - Dijkstra argues for thinking about the problem and solving it properly
- The rigor of CS is not understood by the world
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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
- A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.