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Re:Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009) by jolux on Monday August 07, 2017 @01:31AM (#14945520)
Doctors are required to have extensive knowledge of chemistry, physics, and biology before even beginning medical school. Those are all highly scientific fields with centuries of practice behind them, not to mention medicine itself which is nearly as old as people are.
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Re:Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009) by seanmcdirmid on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:46AM (#14946539)
Yes, but computer scientists are required to take engineering physics also, as well as creative writing sometime. We are talking about the practice of medicine, and if you know any doctors, they aren't exactly very interested in math (they have a lot of other stuff to do!).
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Re:Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009) by jolux on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:55PM (#14950184)
I'm not required to take any physics in my degree actually.
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Re:Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009) by seanmcdirmid on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:19PM (#14950376)
UW CSE requires first year engineer-level physics. I don't think that's unusual.
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