Programming Throwdown Episode 77, Julia, take it away, Patrick.

Welcome everyone to episode 77. take it away Patrick welcome everyone to episode 77 you know we have a lot of discussions with people and emailing in who aren't in university

anymore or are thinking about what to study and the question always comes up

about you know kind of the importance of,

of computer science in the,

I don't, maybe it's not the classical term,

but how I always thought about computer science.

And that would be relative to just programming

or software engineering,

which I don't keep up on the kind of subtleties

of all the different words.

And I know we've probably talked about the differences back and forth several times on the show.

But what I mean here is the things you would find in a textbook like data structures and algorithms, pick your favorite.

Yeah, I mean, it's like, you know, computer science 101, right?

You sort a list 10 different ways and you

build a tree and et cetera, et cetera. And the thing I want to point out is that even if you're going to,

you know, go to some sort of boot camp, if you're watching online courses, learning how to code a

website, I mean, these things are awesome. And actually, the mechanics of using an IDE, you know, telling a computer what to do,

how programs work, all that is important.

And I'm also a huge proponent of understanding actually architecturally how computers work.

For me, that's a big help in the work I do about getting programs to run and to run quickly and

debugging when there's problems, especially in languages like C++ or C where you can have,

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