Reflection: what is computer science?

i can remember my first experience with the computer as a machine that can help me with playing very excellent games. Peeping through the air conditioned-locked black glass, i was told by my teacher that they are very delicate and they can tell them if i do some wrong thing, and so i do not do anything except what i was told to do. This experience for me when i was in grade 6 is really obvious that whatever the teacher told me was very right and i still wonder how can i make such statements to some novice people that could be more impressive as the same like that teacher had made upon me. Even when i was graduating, one question that some elder people used to asked me about my studies was “Explain is your study about?”. Its not difficult but it becomes complex when I try not to use any of the technical term to explain all the aspects that my subject computer science to those elder people with no experience with computer at all and still i was not satisfied with what i try to explain with my answer. There always used to be a discussion about what would be the criteria and how large the boundary of the computer science can be, and I always used to go explaining beyond the boundary and then at last happen to discussion ends with thoughts that there is actually no boundary for the subject.

I found out that there were some few questions that I raised in my introduction were even not found out and still need some analysis to exactly answer them. There were many other texts that were very interestingly trying to find out the answer and I think most of them are still not fully supported by all of people from the discipline.

At the beginning when I found out about the course in the department webpage, I was thinking this course to be similar to the course that might need extensive theoretical reading and lots of references to be put forward before the actual part of the course to be completed with. And that was also one of the reason my other friends were not interested in taking the course at some stage. For me, it was more than getting the credits rather than finding answer to since-childhood-question. Also the course description page was excellently giving the more about the course, and so I found out that it will be more dependent on the instructor lecture notes eventually. The first post was about the introduction for what we will be doing during the course, I was still not known to what my part will be in the course other than giving answers. I didn’t had any idea about why would the instructor asks participants answer at first for the course as a compulsory part. But as the course gradually went forward with the learning activities and the feedback analysis, I was pretty satisfied with how I was able to learn myself about the use of computer science and was able to find answers to some extend.

The most important aspect of the for me was to write about my own masters thesis and try to give its relation with various philosophical aspects of the computer science. For doing that I had to explore various past papers and try to think in deep about my topic from a different angle and how it is linked with the more morphological analysis. Till half way, it has changed more useful for the way I am thinking about the field and now the expectation have increased for me to the remaining of the course.