Cambridge, United Kingdom

Computer Science

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: computer science
Qualification: BEng, BSc
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
The specific aims of this course are:
  • For you to exhibit an understanding of the knowledge and concepts of computer science, incorporating the theory, principles and operation of the underlying technologies and methodologies.
  • To enable you to apply the methods and principles of computer science in the analysis, design, and implementation of solutions in a select range of application domains in information systems, software and communications. To give you the skills necessary to implement and administer organisation wide information technology and communication systems.
  • To enable you to work effectively as a team member and to develop as a professional within the discipline and as a technically able practitioner within an organisation.
  • To prepare you as an independent learner and reflective practitioner.
  • For you to be able to recognise the professional, moral and ethical standards of the computing profession and to be aware of the responsibility in the use and development of applications which impinge on the working and personal lives of users and other professionals.
University website: www.anglia.ac.uk
Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming. Modern computers have the ability to follow generalized sets of operations, called programs. These programs enable computers to perform an extremely wide range of tasks.
Computer Science
Computer science is the study of the theory, experimentation, and engineering that form the basis for the design and use of computers. It is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications and the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to, information. An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems. See glossary of computer science.
Science
Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Computer Science
[Computers] are developing so rapidly that even computer scientists cannot keep up with them. It must be bewildering to most mathematicians and engineers... In spite of the diversity of the applications, the methods of attacking the difficult problems with computers show a great unity, and the name of Computer Sciences is being attached to the discipline as it emerges. It must be understood, however, that this is still a young field whose structure is still nebulous. The student will find a great many more problems than answers.
George Forsythe (1961) "Engineering students must learn both computing and mathematics". J. Eng. Educ. 52 (1961), p. 177. as cited in (Knuth, 1972) According to Donald Knuth in this quote Forsythe coined the term "computer science".
Science
Today, when so much depends on our informed action, we as voters and taxpayers can no longer afford to confuse science and technology, to confound “pure” science and “applied” science.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, in Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein, The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World (2007), 181.
Computer Science
Computer science is an empirical discipline. [...] Each new machine that is built is an experiment. Actually constructing the machine poses a question to nature; and we listen for the answer by observing the machine in operation and analyzing it by all analytical and measurement means available. Each new program that is built is an experiment. It poses a question to nature, and its behavior offers clues to an answer.
Allen Newell (1975) Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search. p. 114
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