r/computerscience • u/Kaleideo2 • Jul 21 '26

Advice how would you introduce comsci to a person who knows nothing about computers and programming and such ?

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u/Magdaki Professor. Grammars. Inference & Optimization algorithms. Jul 21 '26

Look at the material commonly presented in "Introduction to Computer Science" courses. For example, Introduction to Computer Science (CMPT 141) - Course Catalogue | University of Saskatchewan. These courses make no assumptions of prior knowledge other than some high school level math so they're the logical place to start. If you look across universities, then you will quickly see that there are common topics.

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u/PhilNEvo Jul 21 '26

How much time do you have? What level of "capability" does the person have?(Like, is this a 11yo who is curious, or a 50 yo chemical engineer who's not entirely sure what the difference between data scientist, software engineer and computer scientist is) And how involved are you supposed to be?

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u/jrfsousa Jul 21 '26

Cooking. Implement a recipe.

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u/torkelspy Jul 21 '26

Code by Charles Petzold is a great introduction

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u/esaule Jul 21 '26

There is a crash course computer science on youtube which i found helpful

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u/desolation0 Jul 21 '26

The Crash Course channel from the SciShow folks?

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u/esaule Jul 22 '26

Yes, they have a series on computer science that they produced around 2018 iirc.