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A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science

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165 points chbkall | 2 comments | 05 Jul 25 08:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.453s | source
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bilvar ◴[05 Jul 25 09:50 UTC] No.44471467[source]▶
The things described as the goal of the OP are not Computer Science, they're mostly Software Engineering/Development. Even though there is overlap Computer Science is mostly math, completely irrelevant to setting up static blogs or web servers and somewhat relevant to developing applications. A more accurate title would have been "wanting to learn software development and the relevant bits of computer science which help with that"
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1. vunderba ◴[05 Jul 25 15:46 UTC] No.44473542[source]▶
Was surprised to not see this mentioned earlier in this HN post. Author seems to be conflating software development with computer science.

Making a bunch of apps isn't going to provide a solid foundation in CS which usu. includes topics such as linear algebra, discrete mathematics, calc (at a minimum differential and integral), data structures, algorithms, etc.

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2. bilvar ◴[05 Jul 25 16:52 UTC] No.44473953[source]▶
What's surprising to me is that I've received downvotes for mentioning this.