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Re:Laying off George by joshu on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @02:46PM (#401349)
What does cloning some website have to do with computer science?
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Re:Laying off George by mynameishere on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @06:15PM (#401587)
What does cloning some website have to do with computer science?

Two upmods. Hmm. At least two other people think your question a good one. Okay. (EDIT: Three now)

Well, websites are closely associated with many of the topics in computer science. There are, for instance, programming languages, algorithms, data structures, etc, involved in producing a website, no matter the actual content of the website. Likewise, many computer science professors have classes with names like "Software Engineering" which have large-scale projects similar to real-life projects.

Hope I cleared up the confusion.

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