Computing is becoming ubiquitous and integrated in all aspects of human life-from really small intelligent devices, to the Internet. The future promises even more exciting developments. As a result, Computer Scientists study and build "things" at many different scales, from the very small to the very large, and everything in between.
- Examples of small things include the chips, wires, and circuits that form the building blocks of modern computers.
- Big things include the Internet, the World Wide Web, and the set of rules and standards that make them work.
- Computer scientists are architects-they plan, design, and organize
- Computer scientists are builders-they write programs and build software systems that do all kinds of tasks.
- Computer scientists are thinkers-they analyze which ways of doing things will be fastest, and which computing problems can't possibly be done quickly, no matter how hard anyone tries.
Computer scientists study computers and computing in an effort to figure out ways to make them work faster and better, to solve larger, different, and more difficult computing problems. Computer Scientists are problem solvers that learn critical thinking skills and apply them to a variety of challenging problems at different scales and with different structure. These skills serve them well in all walks of life, not just in the typical (but challenging and fun) computer science careers.
For more detail, Wikipedia contains a good overview
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