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by Fargren
3096 days ago
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I don't think you can properly learn probabilities without understanding a degree of calculus. And I don't think you can have a complete scientific education without a measure of probabilities and statistics. On the other hands, I think you don't need computer science to be a programmer, and a lot of us have suffered and will suffer from the coflation of these two fields. Many "computer science" curricula are actually programming. Many people who want to learn programming enroll into computer science because the difference is not clear at all. This was the case for me, and I was lucky to actually like CS, but it was not what I thought I had signed up for. |
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I don't think the parent said zero calc or statistics (rereading the parent did say no calc which I disagree with). I think the complaint stems from the fact that many CS curriculums started, and often still exist in the math department. Should a CS student take calc classes up to level 4 or stop at level 2 and instead have more advanced courses around the computer part of the science?