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January 12, 2009 razec Leave a comment Go to comments

What is your profession?
Computer Science.

OH? Is that a science?
Sure, it is the science of  information processes and their interactions with the world…

These words above were written by Peter J. Denning for The Profession of IT.

Understand what computer science is…

  • Identifying problems
  • Finding how to decompose those problems into manageable parts
  • Finding how to work on those parts

So you think… Computer Science isn’t programming..

Computer Scientists often use programming languages for solving a problem, but the objective discovering the steps needed to solve a particular problem, it isn’t the act of programming.

My Choice

After explain some points about computer science…I I’ll talk about my choice, maybe I can help others people about your choice.

I did choice the course because I love computers, bits and bytes. ( yes I’m Geek, Nerd guy).

I always had an admiration for Computer Scientists with their theories, implementation and studies, how names: John von Neumann, Steve Wozniak, Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman…

When I read something about great scientists or about technology, research. I feel a big desire help similarly their.

I agree with Dr. Denning that said:

“Solidarity, not software, generates collaboration.”

I think with my choice, I’ll could learn how identifying problems and building steps for solving problems and still learning about architecture, programming language and all time contact with technology and contributed with OpenSource.

This year 2009 it’s my last year university. I’m very happy with my choice. Because I achieved some goals:

  • I’m helping Open Source Project .
  • Mentee student IBM. (I’m studying about: “Interoperability with Web Services in Distributed Systems”).

Let’s go new years resolution…

*When you choose a university course think deeply about your choice.

See you..

Razec

References

Great names in computer science, 2009: http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/greatnames.html

What is a computer Scientist?, 2009: http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~bbp9857/cs.html

CSAB, 2009: http://www.csab.org/

CACM IT Profession Columns, 2009: http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/pjd/PUBS/CACMcols/

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