Re: [issues] Prototype vs. design

[Robert Kiesling]

Kelly Lynn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> My first undergrad school had classes in software engineering.
> 
> There's two types of CS, after all; EECS is the "hack and slash"
> style, while (Math)CS is a more theoretical approach.  Usually the
> character of the department is determined by whether it grew out of a
> math department or an engineering department.

There may be a third... that is based on information science, and that
is what I've been considering, as another person said, on the
character of the data, like text, images, musical scores... (though
that description does not do justice to information science).  I think
that qualifies, although it doesn't have the reputation of being as
rigorous as the curricula that are more founded in math.

Robert 


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