• mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    17 hours ago

    One can argue that any programming is computer science,

    One could argue that, but I think it would be a weak argument.

    Keeping within the subcategory of software, I think of computer science as the theoretical side and programming as the practical side. The same distinction is sometimes made in other fields, like physics.

    Seems to me that the author saw a show written by people with a narrow and shallow understanding of the field. For better or for worse, it happens on TV all the time. If he wants to demonstrate a widespread disconnect in the software community, there are probably better examples out there.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      6 hours ago

      (disclaimer: I haven’t read the article, I’m just replying to you because your comment was interesting)

      I think your theoretical vs practical framing is useful, but as a (non-computer-)scientist, I find it fascinating to consider how a biomedical scientist uses programming compared to someone whose background is much more grounded on the compsci/IT/programming side.[1]


      [1]: I sometimes joke that, compared to many of my scientist colleagues, I am an exceptional programmer, and this says a lot about the average quality of the code that scientists tend to write when they don’t have much dedicated training or experience in programming


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