{"id":216,"date":"2010-07-23T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2014-12-05T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:40:05","slug":"this-is-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2010\/07\/23\/this-is-computer-science\/","title":{"rendered":"This is computer science?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the misconceptions I&#8217;m constantly trying to correct is the one that says computer science is about the study of computers.  Or the slightly more sophisticated misconception that says that it&#8217;s the study of programming computers.  No.  CS is much more about what can be done with computing!  Here&#8217;s two great examples of what computer scientists do, which might help you get the idea of how broad and diverse and exiting this field is: <a href='http:\/\/yokyworks.org\/'>yokyworks.org<\/a>, an effort led by Professor Yoky Matsuoka of the University of Washington, and the <a href='http:\/\/l3d.cs.colorado.edu\/~ctg\/Craft_Tech.html'>Craft Technology Group<\/a>, led by Professors Mike and Ann Eisenberg at the University of Colorado. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the misconceptions I&#8217;m constantly trying to correct is the one that says computer science is about the study of computers. Or the slightly more sophisticated misconception that says that it&#8217;s the study of programming computers. No. CS is much more about what can be done with computing! Here&#8217;s two great examples of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}