What is a computer science?

Simply put, computer science is the science of computing or, in other words, it is the study of various computational processes or algorithms relating to information processing. It has been said about computer science that it is a term covering too wide a range of disciplines, and indeed its name tends to sound differently in different languages. When asked, ‘What is computer science?’ people tend to associate the name with computers per se, but scientists argue that computerscience is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. When a future student asks himself ‘Why computer science?’ the answer is obvious: the demand for people with expertise in computer science and the analytical skills it involves continues to be very high. To give computer science a proper place among other disciplines one must remember both its theoretical and practical angles: the first having to do with the theory of computation, the second being about its application in various fields, such as computer engineering, computer networking, artificial intelligence and many others. Computer science and its methodology have influenced virtually all other sciences and computational research in biology, or chemistry, or physics would still be computer science.