Computer science is not really about computers -- and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes...and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.Computer science... differs from physics in that it is not actually a science. It does not study natural objects. Neither is it, as you might think, mathematics; although it does use mathematical reasoning pretty extensively. Rather, computer science is like engineering; it is all about getting something to do something, rather than just dealing with abstractions, as in the pre-Smith geology.
Even now people humiliate cs engineers arguing that cs is not pure engineering. I myself had been subjected to this horrible argument. Well the dark side is that the angels of these horrible argument is other branches of engineers.
Well heres the hard truth to all of you, because we have emerged from the electical branch. We evolved into new adaptive alpha branch which is now the base of all other branches .can you figure a civil or mechanics student without a computer engineered auto cad? Can ec branch survive without the algorithms and data management that we provide . we engineer data management systems , we control the most valuable commodity of this generation ie, Information. even social engineering is part of cs now ie we engineer how society works.
Well all other engineers try to bring imagination, what is not real into reality.
But we on the other hand we hope to create systems that even reality or imagination could manage.
We solve and provide solutions to and engineer systems that can act to do the same to other engineers.
We solve and provide solutions to and engineer systems that can act to do the same to other engineers.
But even knowing all this others only picture a cs engineer as nothing more than a call centre agent or a silly programmer , what they dont relize is that we even greater than that with powers no other have in this age.
We are the ones who does gods work. We create , perfection in creation is our job, and we are creators of a new world. And we engineer the perfect world.
And I Quote "god made machine language the rest is the work of man"
Annai. Ithu nee ezhuthy athu thanne aano?
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