Computer science

"Computer science" is the name for a college degree. I suppose most people who obtain this degree end up doing something with computers. I suppose most people who do not obtain this degree end up doing something with computers. "Science" is a word that gets alot of undue mileage. I suppose that most people who get a computer science degree and end up doing something with computers will use a few more tricks they learned in class than people who did not learn those tricks. Maybe that makes it "science" and it makes them "scientists". For a long time I've been paid to push computers to do things that look very sciency and run special methods that only I ever built (some dabbling in the 1970s, then 1981-present), I say that I have made up alot of tricks even though I am not a computer scientist. I bet my tricks all have names, and I bet that each person with a computer science degree learned most of the names, and learned theorems describing how to evaluate the effectiveness of the trick versus other tricks. I did not.