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by pete_nic 1539 days ago
Non-developer here that likes to try to understand CS. I have latched onto this definition from Stanford:

“But fundamentally, computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.”

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs/ch01.pdf