Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Descriptions

Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

Are you here to participate in a specific proposal? Click on the proposal tag (with the dark outline) to see only posts about that proposal and not all of the others that are in progress. Tags are at the bottom of each post.

Comments on Computer Science

Post

Computer Science

Site Name

Computer Science

Description

The Computer Science (CS) community is a platform for computer science students, researchers, and anyone interested in computer science.

Topics

Topics covered would include topics in computer science that are closer to the theoretical front:

  • Formal languages: Automata theory, CFGs, Turing Machines, etc.
  • Data Structures.
  • Graphs.
  • Algorithms.
  • Reductions.
  • Computability and Complexity.
  • Optimization Problems.
  • Machine Learning.
  • ...

Exclusions

The following topics or types of posts would be out of scope:

  • Electrical Engineering.
  • Software Development.
  • Programming Languages.
  • Coding.
  • ...

Special Features

The ability to to write readable questions and answers:

  • The ability to write in LATEX.
  • The ability to quote something in the body of a question or answer: a quoting theme.
  • The ability to reference or cite links.
  • The ability to insert images.
  • (Not in SE?) (Optional) The ability to load drawing libraries (or any other libraries) in Latex, such as TiKZ.

Overlaps

As expected, computer science can have overlaps with the mathematics and software development communities. For example, many mathematical question are computer science driven, and vice versa. Also, some topics have both practical and theoretical fronts. For example, a coding question in machine learning can fit in CS (if it is an algorithmic question) or in software development (if it is more programming-language or coding driven), depending on the nature of the question. The nature of the question will decide where it fits better.

Note: I checked with possible overlaps with communities that survived the proposal stage.

History
Why does this post require attention from curators or moderators?
You might want to add some details to your flag.

3 comment threads

Theoretical Comp.Sci. more suitable? (1 comment)
On-topic on Software Development CD (11 comments)
Casual browser (2 comments)
Casual browser
General Sebast1an‭ wrote 10 months ago

I want in. Let's learn some CS.

Conrado‭ wrote 9 months ago

I am a hobbyist programmer, with only a grade school education but an interest in human scale security and information theory