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Physics ≠ Computer Science
Can't have computer science without physics.
I'm not entirely sure of that. You can't have comp sci without algebra and potentially calculus. I could see a society that developed all three fields before they codified Physics
How do you have computer science without calculus? Calculus is literally necessary for computer science, otherwise it'd just be like... shitty statistics with a little programming
Care to expand? Things like complexity theory and type theory, for example, have nothing to do with calculus
In general, a lot of the stuff computer science shares with data science uses calculus, a lot of the statistics too, but also visuals and modelling other sciences (e.g. simulations) use calculus heavily. I recall utilising vector calc a decent amount when working with Vulkan, for example
Sounds like programming more than CS, in that case, fair enough. Also the linear algebra in computer graphics is, well, algebra, not calculus.
It would be inelegant as all fuck, but you could get away with just algebra, there are comp sci courses that only need algebra as the foundation.
as far as i can tell, the ones that do that are usually just programming courses with "computer science" slapped onto the title. but i havent exactly gone to many colleges so i don't have the experience to say so.
Do you really think people could make programmable microchips and processing units before they figured out physics?
No, but mechanical computers existed before microchips. They just weren't terribly useful
Once I get my mechanical computer to run crysis we'll see who's laughing.
Wouldn't you also need to know physics in order to make a mechanical computer?
Not necessarily. We had the theory of mechanical computers well before both calculus and physics.
What kind of argumentation is this? Are we talking about mechanical engineering or computer science? Please don't bent reality the way it fits your shape.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer
I know what mechanical computers are. But computer scientists will not be building them 'nor program them, it's not what computer science is about when you go to a university to study it.
computer science teaches you the theories of computation which absolute starts with mechanical computers.
if one didn’t study Turing’s tape machine in their compsci program then they should demand their money back.
I presented a hypothetical, and showed how it could work. You're the one insisting that there's only one way to do things. You're being Western Centric.
I'm well aware of what you study when you study computer science, I majored in that and Music Ed at Transylvania University.
Sure you can. Physics is describing what is, computer science is building what could be
The two things require very little overlap. Even physics systems in video games don't use real physics - it just feels better when you fudge it