{"id":2418,"date":"2020-03-20T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/?page_id=2418"},"modified":"2023-03-18T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T10:02:08","slug":"what-is-cs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/teaching\/lcse\/letture\/what-is-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"What is computer science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Topics (6\/03\/23)<\/h4>\n<p>As Claudio Mirolo sug\u00adgests in the docu\u00adment \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nid.dimi.uniud.it\/teachers\/tfa\/course_notes\/cs_nature.pdf\">Qual \u00e8 la natu\u00adra del\u00adl\u2019in\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adca?<\/a>\u201d, under\u00adstan\u00adding the disci\u00adpli\u00adne that you want to teach is essen\u00adtial to con\u00adsi\u00adder the epi\u00adste\u00admo\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal and phi\u00adlo\u00adso\u00adphi\u00adcal deba\u00adte about its natu\u00adre, in order to beco\u00adme more aware of the rich\u00adness and arti\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtion of our discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the fir\u00adst sug\u00adge\u00adsted rea\u00adding is Mirolo\u2019s text, which pro\u00advi\u00addes an over\u00adview of this deba\u00adte. The docu\u00adment by Mirolo offers nume\u00adrous ideas; we will focus on two of the\u00adse docu\u00admen\u00adts, which are listed here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>P.J. Denning, <a href=\"http:\/\/denninginstitute.com\/pjd\/PUBS\/CACMcols\/cacmApr05.pdf\"><em>Is Computer Science Science?<\/em><\/a>. Communication of the <span class=\"caps\">ACM<\/span> 48(4):27\u201331 (2005)<\/li>\n<li>A. Eden,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/220636751_Three_Paradigms_of_Computer_Science\"><em>Three para\u00addigms of Computer Science<\/em><\/a> .Minds <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span> Machines 17(2):135\u2013167 (2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Domande<\/h4>\n<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-ofccj-79elbk h-full dark:bg-gray-800\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-ofccj-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col items-center text-sm dark:bg-gray-800\">\n<div class=\"w-full border-b border-black\/10 dark:border-gray-900\/50 text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-100 group bg-gray-50 dark:bg-[#444654]\">\n<div class=\"text-base gap-4 md:gap-6 m-auto md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-2xl xl:max-w-3xl p-4 md:py-6 flex lg:px-0\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3 lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)]\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-4 whitespace-pre-wrap\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<ul>\n<li>What is the natu\u00adre of com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce accor\u00adding to&nbsp;you?<\/li>\n<li>What distin\u00adgui\u00adshes it (or does not distin\u00adguish it) from mathe\u00adma\u00adtics and engineering?<\/li>\n<li>How could under\u00adstan\u00adding the natu\u00adre of com\u00adpu\u00adter scien\u00adce influen\u00adce your teaching?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have time, but it is not neces\u00adsa\u00adry for the les\u00adson, I also sug\u00adge\u00adst this document:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>T. Colborne and G. Shute. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.d.umn.edu\/~tcolburn\/papers\/Abstraction.pdf\">Abstraction in Computer Science<\/a>. Minds <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span> Machines 17(2):169\u2013184 (2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Material for the future&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A very long but inte\u00adre\u00adsting docu\u00adment con\u00adtai\u00adning ideas from resear\u00adchers such as Aho, Ullman, Kleinberg, Papadimitriou, Sussman, and many others, con\u00adtains the pro\u00adcee\u00addings of a work\u00adshop on the natu\u00adre of com\u00adpu\u00adter science:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Academy of Sciences,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog\/11106\/computer-science-reflections-on-the-field-reflections-from-the-field\"><em>Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field<\/em><\/a>,The National Academy Press,2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A docu\u00adment that I have not yet had the cou\u00adra\u00adge to face (938 pages, work in pro\u00adgress!) is the trea\u00adti\u00adse on Philosophy of Computer Science by Rapaport:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William J. Rapaport. Philosophy of Computer Science. 2004\u20132020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics (6\/03\/23) As Claudio Mirolo sug\u00adgests in the docu\u00adment \u201cQual \u00e8 la natu\u00adra del\u00adl\u2019in\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adca?\u201d, under\u00adstan\u00adding the disci\u00adpli\u00adne that you want to teach is essen\u00adtial to con\u00adsi\u00adder the epi\u00adste\u00admo\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal and phi\u00adlo\u00adso\u00adphi\u00adcal deba\u00adte about its natu\u00adre, in order to beco\u00adme more aware of the rich\u00adness and arti\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtion of our disci\u00adpli\u00adne. Therefore, the fir\u00adst sug\u00adge\u00adsted rea\u00adding is Mirolo\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2311,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2418","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2418\/revisions\/4737"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cricca.disi.unitn.it\/montresor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}