https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=116 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:12:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=116&cpage=1#comment-357 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:09:37 +0000 /?p=116#comment-357 It’s interesting to note that in french although Computer Science is “Informatique” which is closer to what it is, the science of information, people still associate “Informatique” directly with the computer “ordinateur”.
I can also say that most people (family, friends and employers) expect a McGill computer science graduate to be very good at upgrading PC hardware, fixing Windows, removing viruses, etc… unfortunately I’ve been deceiving a lot of people :).

]]> https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=116&cpage=1#comment-353 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:11:47 +0000 /?p=116#comment-353 It’s interesting to read your description of computer science. The fact that it is so heavily focused on math is one of the reasons I always turned away from it, despite my interest and skills in computers. What would happen if a new breed of computers came about that didn’t use funky math but instead used some other obscure disipline?

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