What is Computer Science?

[Nicolai Waniek]

David B. Held wrote:
> janderson wrote:
>> [...]
>> I'm not sure about that.  I've had some really good speakers but if
>> their subject is about how a C 'for' loop works, I would still fall
>> asleep.
>>
>> Its like watching the same movie again.  It doesn't matter how good it
>> was the first time, I'm not one of those people who can watch it again
>> knowing the ending.
>> [...]
> 
> If it's stuff you know, then you nitpick the speaker and call out
> mistakes as he/she makes them.  At least, that's what I did in my
> young-punk years...
> 
> Dave

That's IMHO not always a good idea. I have an apprenticeship in software
engineering and am now studying "Informatik" (that's like CS, but you get lots
more math I think and you have a minor subject, in my case it's biology because
I once wanted to study micro-biology but then I would want to do some research,
and that's not easy to achieve in Germany...) at the University of Ulm and when
sitting in the software engineering courses I could possibly make a note each 5
minutes because the lecturer just states something wrong. Well, I could do this,
but it would disturb the whole course - Therefore it's better to just not go to
those lecturers, read the script of the last lessons in a few minutes and teach
your fellow students how to code in your spare time :)


best regards
Nicolai


PS: btw. my university's logo states "ulm university", but I guess it should be
"university of ulm". I don't think my english is quite bad (just a bit rusty),
but I don't think "ulm university" is gramatically correct.