Computer science

Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications.

Description

Computer science is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information, whether such information is encoded as bits in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell.

An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale.

Computer scientist

A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.

See also

• Abstract data type
• Abstract machine
• Abstraction (computer science)
• Abstract syntax
• Abstract syntax tree
• Ajax (programming)
• Bit
• Canonical form
• Chaos theory
• Character (computing)
• Computation
• Computer
• Computer program
• Computer programming
• Computing
• Constant (computer programming)
• Control flow
• Data (computing)
• Database
• Database normalization
• Data structure
• Data type
• Data validation
• Distributed computing
• Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe
• Expression (computer science)
• Graph theory
• Idempotence
• Identifier
• Information
• Information architecture
• Information theory
• Input (computing)
• Lambda calculus
• Lexical analysis
• localhost
• Logic in computer science
• Login session
• Model-view-controller
• Normal form (abstract rewriting)
• Parsing
• Power of two
• Programming language
• Programming language theory
• Random access
• Recursion
• Relational database
• Rewriting
• Round-off error
• Scalability
• Sequence
• Session (computer science)
• Software engineering
• State (computer science)
• Stateless protocol
• Statement (computer science)
• Turing machine
• Universal Turing machine
• Value (computer science)
• Vulnerability (computing)
• Zero-based numbering

External links

• Computer science @ Wikipedia