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Possible references
- The Evolution of the Computer Science Degree - Input Output
- Student Enrollment and Image of the Informatics Discipline
- What Is Computer Science? - Bibliography of articles concerned with this question
  - Allen Newell, Alan J. Perlis, Herbert A. Simon (1967), "Computer Science", Science 157(3795) (22 September): 1373-1374. (Proponent of the empirical view of computer science)
- Massimo Franceschet. "A comparison of bibliometric indicators for computer science scholars and journals on Web of Science and Google Scholar"
- To be or not to be cited in computer science Communications of the ACM Volume 55 Issue 8, August 2012

Informatics Practices was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 9 September 2018 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Computer science on 7 October 2018. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Text and/or other creative content from this version of Computer science was copied or moved into Computer science education with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted so long as the latter page exists.

Early history of Computer Science degree programs[edit]

There seems to be some fuzziness about where the first Computer Science degree program in the US might have been. According to this website, the department in Purdue started the same year that the University of Southwestern Louisiana started its MS in Computer Science. I'm not at UL anymore, so I don't have access to the old catalogs in the library to verify that the degree program started before the department in Purdue, so I'll wait until I have more time to go deep to verify this (or maybe somebody else can beat me to it). In the meantime, I'll just edit the article so that it says that Purdue had the first department, rather than the first degree program, so that it's more precisely correct. If I could find a less bullet-pointy source that says the MS in USL started before any program in Purdue, I'd edit the 3rd paragraph in the history section to mention that USL had the first degree program, and Purdue had the first undergraduate degree program.

Sorry if my wiki-etiquette is a bit off, I'm brand new to this.

-According to IBM , a degree program was created a Harvard in 1947, which would be before USL university program, which was in 1968. I think the sources referenced by the other user in the first paragraph of this topic only mentions that USl had the first computer science university program in Louisiana and not in the world or even in the USA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.55.188.126 (talk) 21:23, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Computics? Informatics?[edit]

The name computer science is tragic. I think we should promote the alternative name "computics" or "informatics" as a whole. Or at least "computing" or "computing science". The next problem is the relation of "computer science" to "computer engineering", "informatics", "software engineering", "informaton engineering" etc. In most European countries (including Germany, France, Poland, ...) these areas are treated as one field. It causes major translation problems. English also needs a collective name for these areas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.31.148.225 (talk) 09:38, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Education - Women in Computer Science[edit]

I hope no one minds me removing this entire subsection. I didn't see how it was relevant to the field of computer science at all since it just gave statistics about the percentage of women graduating with CS degrees in particular countries, which seemed rather subjective. BthompsonHV 18:27, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Looks perfect for Computer science education, seeing as it about demographics of students. Whilst it may seem subjective, it continues to be a noticeable problem within the field. That article could do with some work as well, it's rather lacking. Shadowssettle_(talk) 18:32, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

@Shadowssettle: That's not a bad idea. I'll take the diff and move it over there. However, are political and social issues typically talked about in science articles? That just doesn't seem to fit the bill. BthompsonHV 21:46, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Not here, it would seem inappropriate when this is about knowledge not society, but education is inherently about society. Shadowssettle_(talk) 23:36, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

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