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How to open a textbook (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How do you have computer science without calculus? Calculus is literally necessary for computer science, otherwise it'd just be like... shitty statistics with a little programming

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It would be inelegant as all fuck, but you could get away with just algebra, there are comp sci courses that only need algebra as the foundation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

as far as i can tell, the ones that do that are usually just programming courses with "computer science" slapped onto the title. but i havent exactly gone to many colleges so i don't have the experience to say so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Care to expand? Things like complexity theory and type theory, for example, have nothing to do with calculus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In general, a lot of the stuff computer science shares with data science uses calculus, a lot of the statistics too, but also visuals and modelling other sciences (e.g. simulations) use calculus heavily. I recall utilising vector calc a decent amount when working with Vulkan, for example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Sounds like programming more than CS, in that case, fair enough. Also the linear algebra in computer graphics is, well, algebra, not calculus.