4.1. Software Communications 101
If you were planning the course curriculum for a college, you would probably offer programming courses through the computer science department. It seems logical. But while the developers of nitty-gritty drivers need to be closely involved with the hardware guys, most high-level developers really don't. Application developers frankly have little more reason to be part of the computer science department than does a major in comparative religions who writes his dissertation on a computer.
Programming simply doesn't qualify as a science. For that matter, neither do most fields with the word science in their title, except maybe environmental science. Even though a good programmer must be logical and use technology, ...
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