cprussin

Re:Computer Science is Not Math on Friday May 04, 2012 @10:51AM (#3928613)

I would claim that Computer Science is a term that is supposed to apply to any science directly interested in computation. I really see no point in that. Mathematicians are interested in algorithms and complexity and the like, software engineers/db engineers are concerned with databases and UIs. There are different programming languages for each purpose. I see no reason to insist on clumping them in the same group.

tl;dr: every study involving computation or programming doesn't need to be in the same department.

Ask HN: Leaving college to work on a startup?

Posted by cprussin on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @11:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a college student, and recently I've been rather disenchanted by academia. For years I have collected and combined various ideas, and I am to the point with one where I feel confident that I could start a successful startup around the idea. The problem is that I do not yet have a college degree. What benefits would I have with staying behind and putting the idea on the backburner until...

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Re:Ask HN: Do CS students enjoy C anymore? on Monday October 25, 2010 @03:07PM (#1831124)

Come to Virginia Tech. Our entire linux/unix user's group is C crazy, we have a resume CD, and most of us are pretty intelligent people.