• umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    id want to kill myself too. just from the very little i know from computer stuff, imagine doing an entire semester

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          I’m not entirely sure of that. You can’t have comp sci without algebra and potentially calculus. I could see a society that developed all three fields before they codified Physics

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            7 months ago

            How do you have computer science without calculus? Calculus is literally necessary for computer science, otherwise it’d just be like… shitty statistics with a little programming

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              7 months ago

              Care to expand? Things like complexity theory and type theory, for example, have nothing to do with calculus

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                7 months ago

                In general, a lot of the stuff computer science shares with data science uses calculus, a lot of the statistics too, but also visuals and modelling other sciences (e.g. simulations) use calculus heavily. I recall utilising vector calc a decent amount when working with Vulkan, for example

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                  7 months ago

                  Sounds like programming more than CS, in that case, fair enough. Also the linear algebra in computer graphics is, well, algebra, not calculus.

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              7 months ago

              It would be inelegant as all fuck, but you could get away with just algebra, there are comp sci courses that only need algebra as the foundation.

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                7 months ago

                as far as i can tell, the ones that do that are usually just programming courses with “computer science” slapped onto the title. but i havent exactly gone to many colleges so i don’t have the experience to say so.

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          7 months ago

          Sure you can. Physics is describing what is, computer science is building what could be

          The two things require very little overlap. Even physics systems in video games don’t use real physics - it just feels better when you fudge it