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ChristianKl comments on Open Thread, Jun. 29 - Jul. 5, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 12 July 2015 10:24:42PM 0 points [-]

People often choose to study computer science in the believe that computer science is about learning computer programming and the skills to be a good programmer.

A lot of what Computer Science at places like MIT or Stanford is about is not about computer programming. Computer Science is learning about doing math proofs about how algorithms behave.